CRANFORD, NJ – More than 200 golfers, diners and volunteers from around New Jersey and beyond joined together at the Union County College Foundation’s 29th annual Scholarship Golf Outing on Monday, April 26. This event raised more than $155,000 in support of its mission to accelerate the pace of student success. The annual golf outing […]
CRANFORD, NJ — The Cranford community came together on April 14 for the 10th annual Cranford Community Holocaust Day of Remembrance ceremony to remember the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Despite being held virtually this year, the event, which is sponsored by the Cranford Clergy Council, Cranford Public Schools, St Michael School and […]
CRANFORD, NJ — Union County College’s women’s basketball team won the title of National Junior College Athletic Association Region 19 champions for a fourth consecutive year. For the title, the Lady Owls defeated Lackawanna College, 73-42, on Saturday, April 3. For a second year, sophomore Brianna Mills was named the tournament’s Most Valuable Player. Head […]
CRANFORD, NJ — Thanks to the quick thinking of 12-year-old Alex Kessler on Wednesday, March 31, his neighbors are alive today. “The neighbors live right around the corner from us, like five houses away. The three kids — Alex, 12-year-old Sydney and 8-year-old Peri — were walking their puppy, Emmie,” said Nicole Kessler, the mother […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — On April 19, New Jersey American Water will resume using chloramines in water treatment at its Raritan–Millstone and Canal Road water treatment plants. These plants serve NJAW customers in Essex, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset and Union counties. In mid-January, as part of an annual routine maintenance program for its water […]
CRANFORD, NJ — Emma Rothman, of Cranford, is just weeks away from graduating from Syracuse University with a degree in food studies. Like most college graduates, she has mixed emotions about taking the next step in her life’s journey. “I am definitely a bit terrified, but I am excited about the variety of opportunities that […]
CRANFORD, NJ — Deputy Mayor Brian Andrews wasn’t going to let a cool windy day mar the observance of Cranford’s sesquicentennial at a ceremony on Sunday, March 14. “We’re here celebrating our 150th anniversary,” Andrews said that day. “We were founded on this day, 150 years ago, in the wake of a Civil War, and […]
CRANFORD, NJ — Calvary Nursery School & Child Care, an early childhood center serving children ages 2 and a half to 6, recently hosted a pop-up event in downtown Cranford to thank first responders and recognize the community’s yearlong difficult journey. Students marked the passage of the past year’s struggles with a first responder appreciation […]
UNION, NJ — Nutley resident Brennan Columbia-Walsh, a 16-year-old junior from Montclair Kimberley Academy, and Alejandro Espinal, a 17-year-old senior at the Academy for Performing Arts in Scotch Plains, have been selected to share first prize in The Theater Project’s prestigious annual Young Playwrights Competition. Ryan Rosenthal, a 16-year-old junior at Cranford High School, and […]
CRANFORD, NJ — A forward-thinking police officer, a generous Cranford-based business and the Police Department’s Community Outreach Unit combined efforts to create and deploy sensory communication kits in all primary radio cars in Cranford. “The sensory communication kits are intended to improve relationships and mitigate communication barriers between our officers and those individuals in our […]