Tag: Cranbury Township

  • Cranbury Township adopts $12.8 million municipal budget for 2022

    Cranbury Township adopts $12.8 million municipal budget for 2022

    The Cranbury Township Committee has unanimously adopted a $12.87 million municipal budget that will fund township operations for 2022. The budget’s adoption followed a public hearing held by the Township Committee at its March 14 meeting. Mayor Barbara Rogers, Deputy Mayor Mike Ferrante, Township Committeewoman Evelyn Spann, Township Committeeman Matt Scott, and Township Committeewoman Eman…

  • Masks become optional for Cranbury School students

    Masks become optional for Cranbury School students

    The Cranbury School District is switching to masks being optional at the school as the statewide mask mandate has been lifted. Gov. Phil Murphy had announced on Feb. 7 that masks or facial coverings would not be required for students, staff members or visitors to schools and childcare facilities. He said the lift on the…

  • Cranbury School District will announce decision on shift to masks being optional

    Cranbury School District will announce decision on shift to masks being optional

    Cranbury School District officials are expected to announce a decision this week on dropping the mask mandate and shifting to masks being optional for students, staff and visitors as March 7 approaches, which is the date the statewide mandate will be lifted. Administrators anticipated providing details to the school community later this week, according to…

  • Cranbury Craft Show spotlights crafters’ latest works

    Cranbury Craft Show spotlights crafters’ latest works

    Organizers have been hard at work for Cranbury’s annual Craft Show, which returns to the Cranbury School for a 24th year. The craft show is back in person after cancellation in 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. The show was able to occur in 2020 right before the lockdowns occurred when COVID-19 cases began to…

  • Cranbury Public Library’s new home still on track for completion in June

    Cranbury Public Library’s new home still on track for completion in June

    Construction continues at 30 Park Place West as Cranbury’s library building project remains on schedule to be completed by the end of June. Several site tasks originally set for the spring have been completed as the contractor awaits for roof insulation. From the end of 2021 into 2022, the technical schedule for the rest of…

  • Genco, Waldron plan to retire after 2021-22 school year

    Genco, Waldron plan to retire after 2021-22 school year

    The Cranbury Township Board of Education will need to search for new leadership at the Cranbury School as Chief School Administrator Susan Genco and Assistant Principal Michele Waldron announced that they will retire following the 2021-22 school year. Genco, who has served as the chief school administrator for the past 11 years, and Waldron, who…

  • Cranbury Township anticipates flat tax rate for 2022 municipal budget

    Cranbury Township anticipates flat tax rate for 2022 municipal budget

    The Cranbury Township tax rate is expected to remain flat for residents during the 2022 year. At a budget meeting on Jan. 29, Administrator Denise Marabello, who is also the township’s chief financial officer, informed the Township Committee that there would be no increase or decrease to the tax rate for 2022. “In order to…

  • Dredging of Brainerd Lake inches closer to completion with February deadline

    Dredging of Brainerd Lake inches closer to completion with February deadline

    Residents traveling by Brainerd Dam will continue to notice construction crew excavation work for the dredging of Brainerd Lake as an extended deadline approaches. With the dredging project slowed by rainfall events, SumCo Eco-Contracting, which was awarded the contract for the dredging of Cranbury’s lake, requested an extension from the township and was granted one…

  • Cranbury school board approves contract to construct auxiliary gym

    Cranbury school board approves contract to construct auxiliary gym

    The Cranbury Township Board of Education has approved a $2.15 million contract for construction services to build a proposed auxiliary gym at the Cranbury School. Out of 18 bids for the project, Northeastern Interior Services, LLC, was awarded the contract by the school board at its Jan. 5 meeting. Board President Pramod Chivate, Vice President…