She was Mayor of Cranford in 1977.

Freeholder Kowalski was an unsuccessful candidate for Cranford Township Committee in 1999 and served as Union County Freeholder Chairwoman in 2007.

The system's high school, Cranford High School was ranked as one of the top 15 high schools in New Jersey in 2010 and has won a series of national and statewide awards for its innovative curriculum.

The Cranford campus, one of four county locations, was established in 1956.

The Cranford Historical Preservation Advisory Board was established in 1993 to record and help preserve historic buildings in the town.

One episode was shot at Cranford's Orange Avenue Pool and another at Cranford High School and Brookside Place School.

Union County College was founded in 1933 and has campuses throughout the county, in Cranford, Elizabeth, Plainfield and Scotch Plains.

Garwood was incorporated as a borough on March 19, 1903, from portions of Cranford Township and Westfield Town.

Kenilworth was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on May 13, 1907, from portions of Cranford and Union Township, based on the results of a referendum held on June 18, 1907.

In the late 1890s, the New Orange Industrial Association purchased land in Cranford and Union that was subdivided into building lots, and brought in several large industries and lured Upsala College from Brooklyn with a gift of free land for its campus.

Historic landmarks include Gunston Hall, George Mason's Home, Pohick Church with George Washington's box, Belvoir which was George Fairfax's home, the Market, and now Fort Belvoir Army Corps of Engineer base and Cranford Church.

On television in 2009 he appeared as Mr Buxton in the critically acclaimed Return to Cranford and was nominated for an Emmy Award as Best Supporting Actor in a Mini Series.

He was buried in Cranford church, where a mural tablet was afterwards set up on the north side of the chancel, with an epitaph which contains a conceit worthy of his own pen, to the effect that while he was endeavouring ( viz, in.

His last and best patron was George Berkeley, 1st Earl Berkeley ( 1628 – 1698 ), of Cranford House, Middlesex, whose chaplain he was, and who gave him Cranford rectory ( 1658 ).

Roe was born at Low Leyton near Wanstead in Essex, the son of Sir Robert Rowe of Gloucestershire and Cranford, Middlesex, and his wife Elinor Jermy, daughter of Robert Jermy of Worstead, Norfolk.

The BBC TV adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel Cranford was partly filmed at West Wycombe Park, along with TV series Inspector Morse.

The BBC sequel, Return to Cranford, was broadcast in 2009 in the UK and 2010 in the USA.

It was designed and programmed by Michael Cranford.

Michael Cranford, the designer and programmer of the first two Bard's Tale games, was a devout Christian.

Cranford is a township in Union County, New Jersey, United States.

Downtown Cranford is the main retail business district for the township.

Portions of the township were taken to form Cranford Township ( March 14, 1871 ) and Winfield Township ( August 6, 1941 ).

Portions of the township have been taken to form Rahway Township ( February 27, 1804 ), Plainfield Township ( April 5, 1847 ), Cranford Township ( March 14, 1871 ), Fanwood Township ( March 6, 1878, now known as Scotch Plains ), Mountainside ( September 25, 1895 ) and Hillside ( April 3, 1913 ).

In the 1980s, Cranford founded the first special improvement district in New Jersey, which allows for the downtown district to have a special tax on building and business owners for downtown development and marketing which is managed by the Cranford Downtown Management Corporation.

The Cranford Township Public Schools are a comprehensive and successful public school system, which is governed by a nine-person elected Board of Education.

Saint Michael's School, located in downtown Cranford, is a major Roman Catholic parochial school which offers Nursery through Grade 8 and is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Elementary Schools, operating under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark.

Owned by Worrall Community Newspapers, the Eagle focused solely on Cranford and other neighboring towns.

* Narrated history of Cranford by Cranford resident Bernie Wagenblast

The borough is bordered to the west by Westfield and to the east by Cranford.

The borough is bordered to the north and east by Union Township, to the southeast by Roselle Park, to the southwest by Cranford and to the northwest by Springfield Township.

The borough is bordered by Roselle Park to the north, Elizabeth to the east, Linden to the south and Cranford to the west.

Upon the Restoration in 1660, the new authorities deprived Wilkins of the position given him by Cromwell ; he gained appointment as prebendary of York and rector of Cranford, Middlesex.

* In the 2007 adaptation of Cranford, a ( fictitious ) railway line owned by the Grand Junction Railway is the subject of gossip when the railway line bypasses the village of Cranford.

* The 2008 release of Cranford by AD Classic Books includes artwork by George Du Maurier, commissioned by Smith, Elder & Co. in 1864, and artwork by Hugh Thomson for Macmillan and Co. in 1891.

* Cranford, North and South and My Lady Ludlow by Elizabeth Gaskell

The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 defined the seat as comprising the parishes of Ashford *, Bedfont, Cowley, Cranford, Feltham, Hampton, Hampton Wick, Hanworth, Harefield, Harlington, Harmondsworth, Hayes, Hillingdon East, Hillingdon West, Ickenham, Laleham *, Littleton *, Northolt, Ruislip, Shepperton *, Staines *, Stanwell *, Sunbury *, Teddington, Uxbridge, West Drayton, and Yiewsley.

Westbound Route 28 in Cranford, New Jersey | Cranford. Upon crossing County Route 606 ( Hetfield Avenue ), Route 28 turns slightly mor east and enters Scotch Plains, where it passes homes to the south and businesses to the north.

New Jersey Monthly magazine ranked Cranford as its 34th best place to live in its 2010 rankings of the " Best Places To Live "

Cranford Township is in the 7th Congressional district and is part of New Jersey's 21st state legislative district.

The main campus of Union County College, New Jersey's oldest community college dating back to 1933, is located in Cranford.

The Cranford station offers service on the New Jersey Transit Raritan Valley Line, formerly the mainline of the Central Railroad of New Jersey.

* William C. Dudley ( born 1952 ), President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve Open Markets Committee, he is also the husband of former Cranford Deputy Mayor Ann Darby

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Berkeley Heights, New Providence, Westfield, Summit, Cranford, Kenilworth, Clark, Linden, Union, Springfield and Scotch Plains have a very high number of Italian American residents, as well as a large number of Irish Americans and residents of Northern European descent in general.

* The Madison train station played the role of Cranford, New Jersey in the 2005 film, Guess Who starring Bernie Mac and Ashton Kutcher.

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New Jersey Transit provides bus service to the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan in New York City and to New Jersey points, including the city of Elizabeth and nearby Union County College in Cranford.