Cranford is governed under the Township form of government with a five-member Township Committee.

, members of the Cranford Township Committee are Mayor David W. Robinson, Deputy Mayor Andis Kalnins ( Commissioner of Finance ), Lisa Adubato ( Commissioner of Public Safety ), Kevin Campbell ( Commissioner of Engineering, Commissioner of Public Works ) and Edward O ' Malley ( Commissioner of Public Affairs ).

As of 2009, seven women have been elected to the Cranford Township Committee and three women have served as Mayor of Cranford.

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

Women Township Commissioners in Cranford

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

The Cranford Chronicle ( formerly the Cranford Citizen & Chronicle ) is a longtime newspaper serving the Township.

Cranford. com is The Official Website of the Township of Cranford, NJ and has been in operation since the summer of 1996.

* Cranford Township home page

* Cranford Township Public Schools

* Data for the Cranford Township Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics

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

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.

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.

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 ).

Cranford High School is a four-year public high school located in Cranford, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Cranford Township Public Schools.

The student population consists primarily of students who attended junior high school at either Orange Avenue School or Hillside Avenue School within the Cranford Township Public Schools or went to Saint Michael's School.

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.

Cranford High School students are regularly admitted to some of the nation's top private and public universities, with over 90 % of each graduating class going onto college.

There are fair-sized Jewish-American communities in Springfield, Scotch Plains, Elizabeth, Hillside, Cranford, Westfield and Summit, although not at the level of Essex County.

As of the January 2010 reorganization, Union County's Freeholders are Freeholder Chairperson Daniel P. Sullivan ( Elizabeth ), Freeholder Vice Chairperson Deborah P. Scanlon ( Union ), Angel G. Estrada ( Elizabeth ), Mohamed S. Jalloh ( Roselle ), Bette Jane Kowalski ( Cranford ), Alexander Mirabella ( Fanwood ), Rick Proctor ( Rahway ), Rayland Van Blake ( Plainfield ) and Nancy Ward ( Westfield ).

The nearest places are Hounslow, Ashford, East Bedfont, Cranford and Hanworth.

Exits 136 and 137 are for Cranford Township and Route 28.

Chapters are located in Montreal, Ottawa-Gatineau, Toronto, New Jersey ( Woodbridge ), Quebec City, Atlanta, Calgary, Longueuil, Sandy Springs ( GA ), Cranford ( NJ ), Barrie, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Winnipeg, Canton ( GA ), Keowee ( SC ), and London ( ON )

Newark Penn Station, Union, Cranford, Westfield, Plainfield and Somerville are accessible, high-platform stations.

Under normal operations the agreement prohibited take-off on the northern runway towards the east ( towards London ) because of the proximity of Cranford to the east end of this runway ; however this runway could be used in exceptional cases, for example when the southern runway was not available for departures or when departure delays are excessive.

Cranford High School football the past three years has become extremely successful throughout the state playoffs.

In addition to the public education system, Cranford houses several religious and private schools.

Cranford TV-35 public access logo

According to a March 30, 2005 article in the Star Tribune, this image was distributed to the public by Neurologist Ronald Cranford and Michael Schiavo.

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.

which caters for around 200 students, the new school will move into state of the art facilities on Cranford Park Drive in September 2011.

He spent nine years at the high school level, including Cranford High School in Cranford, New Jersey and Fair Lawn High School in Fair Lawn, New Jersey before becoming an assistant coach for one season at the College of William and Mary in 1968.

Recently, the school developed " The High School University of Cranford ," a program that provides additional opportunities for those who wish to extend their education without having to place in the top portion of the class based on class rank formulated from GPA calculation.

In Newsweek's June 13, 2010 issue, ranking the country's top high schools, Cranford High School was listed in 551st place, the 11th-highest ranked school in New Jersey.

For the 2002-03 school year, Cranford High School was designated as a " Star School " by the New Jersey Department of Education, the highest honor that a New Jersey school can achieve, and the school has been selected for the Best Practice Award.

From the conference's inception until the 2005-06 school year, Cranford was a member of the Watchung Conference.

Due to the change in size of the student body and location, Cranford ' sdecision to leave the Watchung Conference for the Mountain Valley Conference was approved in 2006 and Cranford began competition in most sports in the 2006-07 school year, remaining there until the 2010 realignment.

In 1959, he began a three year tenure as an assistant coach at Cranford High School in Cranford, New Jersey ; this was Massimino's high school alma mater.

From Navy experiments with the KGW-1 Loon, the Navy designation for the German V-1 flying bomb, Marine Captain Marian Cranford Dalby developed the AN-MPQ-14, a system that enabled radar-guided bomb release at night or in poor weather.