Tag: Cranbury
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Candidates for Cranbury Township Committee discuss election issues
Government spending, a new public library project and the local impact of New Jersey officials possibly legalizing recreational marijuana emerged as some of the issues the three hopefuls for Township Committee weighed in on at a candidates forum Oct. 9, less than a month before the election. Democratic incumbents Jay Taylor and Michael J. Ferrante…
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Cranbury History Center will be renamed in honor of local historian
The Cranbury History Center on South Main Street, Cranbury, will be renamed in honor of the late Betty Wagner, a former township historian who played an active role in her adopted community. The Cranbury Historical and Preservation Society, of which Wagner was a past president, intends to have a rededication ceremony, scheduled for 2 p.m.…
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Lawsuit challenging school board’s vote dismissed by Superior Court judge
The decision by the Princeton Public Schools Board of Education to extend the district’s send-relationship with Cranbury has survived a legal test. On Sept. 27, a state Superior Court judge sitting in Trenton threw out a lawsuit a Princeton couple filed in a bid to invalidate the vote the board took earlier this year to…
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Cranbury officials use town’s finances to make case against consolidation
Cranbury navigated the Great Recession that hit the nation 10 years ago through a series of steps that township officials, past and present, took to trim spending and reduce debt to put the township on solid financial footing, a township official said on Sept. 24. Committeeman Jay Taylor shared at the Township Committee meeting how…
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Cranbury committee will seek state grant to help fund road reconstruction
Cranbury officials will look to the state to help pay to reconstruct a 1-mile-stretch of Brickyard Road, a job estimated to cost $1 million. The township next month intends to apply for a grant with the state Department of Transportation, which in the past has provided the town about $300,000 for road projects, officials said…
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Halloween 5K to include family fun festival for Hugs for Brady Foundation
The Hugs for Brady Foundation and the Township of South Brunswick will present a Halloween Family Fun Festival 5K and Family Fun Run from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Oct. 20 at Rowland Park, 235-55 Broadway, Cranbury, on the border of South Brunswick. The 5K starts at 9 a.m. Registration begins at 7:45…
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Candidates seeking office in Cranbury will answer residents’ questions on Oct. 9
The three candidates running for seats on the Cranbury Township Committee are scheduled to have their lone joint appearance of the campaign in early October when they take questions from voters less than a month before Election Day. Democrats Jay Taylor and Michael J. Ferrante, the two incumbents, and Republican challenger Wayne Wittman are due…
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Youngsters’ signs encourage drivers to obey rules of the road in Cranbury
Margaret Collins used her imagination and creativity to come up with a catchy way to urge motorists driving in Cranbury to slow down, with an assist from George Washington. The 10-year-old was one of about 80 local youths who participated in a sign-making contest the township and the police department held to see who could…
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Cranbury planning to install new street lights
In a move to improve safety and aesthetics, more than 20 new street lights will be installed along Main Street and Maplewood Avenue in Cranbury, a township official said on Sept. 5. Township Committeeman Matthew A. Scott called it a “win-win-win” in having brighter lights that will make it safer for pedestrians and cost less…