"William M. Sperry (1839–1927)Archived November 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Amateur Astronomers. Accessed November 4, 2016. "William Miller Sperry who came to Cranford in 1898, and two of his brothers Thomas Alexander Sperry and Joseph Austin Sperry, had much to do with the development of the Cranford community as all three maintained a sincere and continuing interest in the civic growth of the area."
About, Cranford Dramatic Club. Accessed August 26, 2022. "Beginning with the 1918–1919 season, a few local Cranford townspeople shared their love of theatre with friends and neighbors."
Long Range Plan: 2019–2021, Cranford Public Library. Accessed July 8, 2022. "In 1910, a library building, financed in part by the Carnegie Fund, was erected on Miln Street. A white-columned structure, it resembled a Southern mansion more than a typical Carnegie library."
TV-35, Township of Cranford. Accessed October 3, 2017. "TV 35 is Cranford's local cable access channel that reaches more than 350,000 viewers in Cranford and nine neighboring towns on Comcast."
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About, Cranford Park Rehabilitation and Health Care Center. Accessed September 28, 2022.
Thomas, Shea. "Santas move in when TV's 'Pete and Pete' move out", Cranford Chronicle, November 27, 1997. Accessed September 28, 2022. "The house on willow Street is affectionately known as the 'Santa Claus' house and rightfully so – it has 'thousands of Santas' displayed inside... It was used in filming the Nickelodeon program Pete & Pete, as the home of the brothers with a shared name, but the show has been canceled."
"Recycling program sets new records", Cranford Citizen and Chronicle, April 25, 1974. Accessed September 4, 2022. "The Cranford Recycling Program Inc., which will conduct a recycling exposition Saturday afternoon at Orange Avenue Junior High School, announced today that in its collection year ending March 31 it surpassed all previous local records. Albert M. Gessler, chairman of the program, reported 514,860 pounds of paper had been collected, compared with 471,500 pounds in the 1972–73 collection year."
Bernstein, Michele W. "Gary Kott Injects Cranford Memories into Cosby Show". Cranford Chronicle, June 4, 1987. Accessed September 28, 2022. "No wonder the Cougars won. Kott grew up in Cranford. He is the son of Marguerite Kott and the late Bernard Kott, and has enjoyed an almost storybook career since his graduation from Cranford High in 1965."
"Gift of $100,000 to Make UJC Campus Site Of William M. Sperry Memorial Observatory", Cranford Citizen and Chronicle, February 29, 1964. Accessed September 28, 2022. "A long-time Cranford resident, the late William Miller Sperry was the father of Mrs. F. W. Beinecke and grandfather of William S. Beinecke, now president of the Sperry and Hutchinson Co., distributors of S&H Green Stamps."
About, Gary Kott's Creative Warehouse. Accessed July 17, 2012. "I grew up in Cranford, New Jersey – exit 137 on the Garden State Parkway – twenty-one miles from the Lincoln Tunnel and New York City."
"National Merit", The Westfield Leader, November 24, 2005. Accessed January 22, 2018. "Union Catholic students Amy Dooley of Carteret, Thomas Fitzgibbon of Fanwood, Bradley Gelles of Edison, Katherine McGhee of Edison and Victoria Spellman of Cranford, have been named Commended Students in the 2006 National Merit Scholarship Program. Each student will be presented with a letter of commendation from the school and National Merit Scholarship Corporation."
About, Hanson Park Conservancy. Accessed November 8, 2016.
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Donnelly, Jim. "Howard A. Darrin", Hemmings Motor News, July 2006. Accessed August 22, 2020. "Howard Darrin was born in 1897 in Cranford, New Jersey, along what would later become the route of the Garden State Parkway."
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Jennifer WesthovenArchived March 24, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, HLN. Accessed March 28, 2013. "Westhoven earned a bachelor of arts degree in history and political science from Bryn Mawr College and grew up in Cranford, NJ."
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Sacks, Benjamin. "Frederick W. Beinecke (1887–1971)", Immigrant Entrepreneurship, September 25, 2012. Accessed November 4, 2016. "In 1915 the family moved to a suburban house in Cranford, New Jersey, away from Manhattan's chaotic atmosphere."
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Millar, Will. "'8THEIST' License Plate Sparks Federal Lawsuit", Inquisitr, April 19, 2014. Accessed September 19, 2019. "Last August, Cranford resident David Silverman, the president of an organization called American Atheists, attempted to get 'ATHE1ST' as a license plate — with a numeral '1' instead of the letter 'I'. Silverman was denied his vanity plate after it was deemed offensive by a Motor Vehicle Commission clerk, only to have the decision reversed later that same month."
"Union College celebrates its 50th anniversary", Courier News, October 17, 1983. Accessed August 26, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Lean salary years followed, then an enrollment crisis in 1944 when education-hungry GIs suddenly overwhelmed the small, deficit-ridden school. By that time, the college had a campus of its own the dilapidated Grant School in Cranford. The college received full accreditation in 1956 and moved to its current 50-acre campus in Cranford in 1959."
"Marston Will Remain In New Jersey Game", Courier News, April 3, 1918. Max Marston, the Cranford golf star and former New Jersey champion, who was reported to have changed his abode in Cranford to a residence in Philadelphia, comes out with the statement that he has not sworn allegiance to the Quaker town."
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Kuperinsky, Amy. "'The Jewel of the Meadowlands'?: N.J.'s best, worst and weirdest town slogans", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, January 22, 2015. Accessed July 12, 2016. "Cranford, in Union County, uses 'Friendship & Progress' — and a crane bird (the town is named for Josiah Crane) — on its township seal, but since it is bisected by the Rahway River, the town is informally known as 'The Venice of New Jersey.'"
Fridlington, Robert J. "Remembering Joshua Bryant, a prominent figure in Cranford's history", Cranford Chronicle, February 10, 2012. Accessed October 28, 2016. "Without formal training and despite prevailing attitudes, he became Cranford's first African-American law enforcement officer, the first African-American elected to public office in the township, and an influential figure in local politics."
Home Page, Suburban News. Accessed August 14, 2017.
"First Baptist Church in Cranford celebrating 125th anniversary", Cranford Chronicle, June 9, 2012, updated March 30, 2019. Accessed February 15, 2020. "The First Baptist Church, 100 High St. in Cranford is celebrating the 125th Anniversary. The church was founded in June 1887 by Reverend William A. Wallace."
"Police Dept. launches Pace Car Program", Suburban News, September 18, 2008. Accessed August 26, 2022. "In conjunction with the start of the 2008–2009 school year, the Cranford Police Department is re-launching their Pace Car Program. The Pace Car Program is a citizen based traffic calming program which supplements the department's Keep Kids Alive Drive 25 initiative. The goal of the Pace Car Program is to create safer Cranford streets by encouraging residents to proactively promote driver responsibility and roadway safety through an educational and awareness campaign."
Kuperinsky, Amy. "N.J. on Netflix: Stay out of the cold and under the covers with this hometown playlist", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, January 14, 2016. Accessed August 14, 2017. "Guess Who (2005, rated PG-13, 1 hour 45 min.) If you feel like seeing Ashton Kutcher squirm under the death stare of Bernie Mac, this one's for you. Filmed in both Cranford and Madison, the romantic comedy, co-starring Passaic native Zoe Saldana, is a modern-day reboot of the 1967 film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, which took on interracial dating."
Ragonese, Dana. "Cranford native Jordan White featured at Rev It Up concert starring Crystal Bowersox", Cranford Chronicle, August 4, 2011. Accessed February 20, 2013. "At least half of the profits from the concert will go towards juvenile diabetes. The benefit concert will also feature Hawthorne Heights, Carmen Magro, and Cranford, native Jordan White."
Ensslin, John C."Breath of fresh air' for N.J.’s high court; colleagues praise nominee", The Record, April 15, 2016. Accessed May 7, 2021. "Timpone, a 65-year-old Cranford resident and former assistant U.S. attorney, has the judicial demeanor and knack for collegiality, they said, to build consensus on a court that by tradition is split between Democratic and Republican justices."
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Cheslow, Jerry. "If You're Thinking of Living in: Cranford", The New York Times, March 8, 1992. Accessed August 29, 2015. "KNOWN at the turn of the century as the Venice of New Jersey, the Union County Township of Cranford grew up around the meandering Rahway River. In 1720, John Crane of nearby Elizabeth Towne (now Elizabeth) built a grist mill on the north side of a ford in the river and a sawmill on the south side."
Burks, Edward C. "Union College, at 40, Is Still Growing", The New York Times, April 1, 1973. Accessed May 20, 2024. "Forty years after a modest start as a Depression‐era W.P.A. project, Union College is completing a $4.5‐million expansion program that includes a new library and a humanities building with 17 classrooms. The two‐year junior college was established as an evening institution in Roselle High School in 1933, and became a private school two years later. It moved into an old Cranford public school building in 1942, and, finally, to its present 50‐acre site on Springfield Avenue in 1959."
"Edward K. Gill", The New York Times, February 13, 1985. Accessed September 19, 2019. "Edward K. Gill, who was elected to the New Jersey Assembly in 1981 at the age of 62 after a long career in business, died of a heart ailment Saturday in Muhlenberg Hospital in Plainfield, N.J. He was 66 years old and lived in Cranford. Mr. Gill was the Mayor of Cranford from 1967 to 1970 and served on several town boards."
Andrews, Edmund L."Economics Adviser Learns the Principles of Politics", The New York Times, February 26, 2004. Accessed September 19, 2019. "He describes himself as a lifelong Republican, which sets him apart from many Harvard colleagues. He distributed campaign literature for Richard Nixon in the early 1970s, and he grew up in Cranford, a fairly affluent suburb in New Jersey, the son of an engineer and a teacher."
"Joseph Striker, Actor, 74, Played in King of Kings", The New York Times, February 27, 1974. Accessed September 19, 2019. "Joseph Striker, a film and stage actor in the nineteentwenties and early thirties, died Sunday in St. Barnabas Hospital, Livingston, N. J. He was 74 years old and lived at 4 Riverside Drive in Cranford, N.J."
Fox, Margalit. "Paul Lioy, Scientist Who Analyzed 9/11 Dust and Its Health Effects, Dies at 68", The New York Times, July 11, 2015. Accessed July 12, 2015. "Paul James Lioy was born on May 27, 1947, in Passaic, N.J. He earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Montclair State College, as it was then known, followed by a master's degree in the field from Auburn University in Alabama and master's and doctoral degrees in environmental science from Rutgers.... From his home in Cranford, N.J., Dr. Lioy could see the plumes of dust that rose from the ruins of the trade center towers on Sept. 11, 2001."
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William Beinecke – 96, Old New York Stories, October 28, 2011. Accessed November 4, 2016. "My father and mother had a home on Prospect Street in Cranford. So we lived in Cranford, New Jersey, in a house, the address was 401 Prospect Street, Cranford, New Jersey and I even remember the phone number. The phone was 47."
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Dean Mathey (1891–1972)Archived November 9, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Princeton Area Community Foundation. Accessed November 8, 2016. "Dean Mathey was born in 1891 and raised in Cranford, N.J. where he attended the Pingry School."
Antonelli, Toniann. "Lights, Camera...Cranford! A production crew filmed scenes from a commercial in Cranford Tuesday.", Cranford Patch, January 24, 2012. Accessed August 14, 2017. "Several episodes in the third season of the popular 1990's television show, The Adventures of Pete & Pete were filmed in Cranford. One episode was shot at Cranford's Orange Avenue Pool and another at Cranford High School and Brookside Place School. Another episode was filmed at Modern Barber Shop."
Antonelli, Troiann. " Lights...Camera...Joanie's Cafe!Television crews visited a Cranford eatery on Aug. 29 to film a commercial.", Cranford Patch, August 29, 2012. Accessed August 3, 2016. "In addition, Cranford is the setting of the 2005 film, Guess Who starring the late Bernie Mac and Ashton Kutcher. Portions of the movie Garden State,Far From Heaven and September 12, as well as HBO's The Plot Against America were also shot in town."
Lissner, Caren. "Groundbreaking Film 'Bros' Is Shooting In Cranford This Week", Cranford, NJ Patch, September 28, 2021. Accessed June 17, 2022. "A new film called "Bros" will be filming in Downtown Cranford on Wednesday and Thursday, the Downtown Cranford organization said in a Facebook post on Tuesday. The organization noted that the film represents a 'first' in Hollywood: Bros is also making history by having an entirely LGBTQ main cast, including for the straight characters, the first for a major studio film.""
"Astros World Series Team Has a Rutgers Alumnus in the Bullpen", Rutgers University. Accessed November 9, 2022. "A native of Cranford, New Jersey, Murphy was a standout shortstop and relief pitcher at Roselle Catholic High School before signing a national letter of intent to attend Rutgers and play baseball for Hall of Fame Head Coach Fred 'Moose' Hill."
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"Faces in the Crowd", Sports Illustrated, June 3, 1974. Accessed June 6, 2022. "Karen Hummer, 12, a third-degree brown belt from Cranford, N.J. who took up judo four years ago, became the youngest person to win a National Senior Championship when she defeated four opponents in the 105-pound competition, in Phoenix, Ariz."
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Brochure, St. Michael's School. Accessed February 19, 2020.
Cranford Board of Education District Policy 0110 - Identification, Cranford Township Public Schools. Accessed June 5, 2024. "Purpose: The Board of Education exists for the purpose of providing a thorough and efficient system of free public education in grades Pre-Kindergarten through twelve in the Cranford School District. Composition: The Cranford School District is comprised of all the area within the municipal boundaries of Cranford."
Glackin, Jennifer. "Cranford Township Committee Names Commissioner's Replacement, New Deputy Mayor", TAPinto Cranford, June 21, 2023. Accessed July 4, 2023. "At its meeting Tuesday evening, the Cranford Township Committee unanimously voted in a replacement for former Commissioner Jason Gareis, who recently resigned to take a position at the Union County Prosecutor's office. Paul Gallo, one of the three names put forth by the Cranford Democratic Committee last week, has been appointed to the Township Committee."
"Helen K. Baldwin Nursery School Adds Early Morning & Late Afternoon Care", TAP into Cranford, February 6, 2020. Accessed August 26, 2022. "Helen K. Baldwin Nursery School is excited to announce new and extended programs within the same warm, nurturing and safe environment that has existed since the school’s inception in 1956."
"Cranford's Emergency Radio Station is Back on the Air", TAPinto Cranford, December 30, 2015. Accessed January 4, 2024. "Its call sign, WQWE 201, is located at 680 on the AM dial and is currently broadcasting a message detailing how to set the station, followed by current local NOAA weather reports."
Staff. "Cranford Chronicle to Cease Publication This Week", TAPintoCranford, May 26, 2015. Accessed August 20, 2015. "According to a press release issued by NJ Advance Media, the Cranford Chronicle will cease publication this week."
Glackin, Jennifer. "Saturdays with Bernie: What Makes Cranford a Destination for Filming?", TAP into Cranford, July 30, 2012. Accessed February 6, 2023. "You may also have seen roads closed, homes bustling with people in black masks, cameras, vintage cars, or large trailers. It's all because Hollywood has come to Cranford. In the last few months, multiple films have been filmed in town, including Maybe I Do (starring Diane Keaton, William H. Macy), Mother's Instinct (Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway), Daughter of the Bride (Marcia Gay Harden, Halston Sage), and, earlier this week, Sweethearts (Kiernan Shipka, Nico Hiraga)."
Glackin, Jennifer. "Dumb Money Films in Cranford, Stars Spotted", TAP into Cranford, October 13, 2022. Accessed February 6, 2023. "Parents and kids got a glimpse of Hollywood this morning on their way to school. Pete Davidson was spotted near Cranford homes on the south side of town where he is filming Dumb Money."
"Cranford Resident, Radio Announcer, AirTrain Voiceover – Bernie Wagenblast's Boyhood Dream a Fruitful Career", TAP into Cranford, April 18, 2015. Accessed November 19, 2017. "Bernie Wagenblast might not be a household name, but the lifetime Cranford resident's voice is heard by hundreds of thousands of people everyday. Wagenblast is the announcer voice on many New York subway lines and throughout the Newark and JFK Airport AirTrain systems."
"Meet Jordan White"Archived July 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, The Valley Beat. Accessed July 17, 2012. "Jordan White was born in Cranford, New Jersey, but raised in Nazareth where he learned to play guitar and classical piano. At age 19, White first began writing songs, by the age of 28 he has landed a song with a national label."
TopVet: Bill Chatfield, Veterans Advantage, June 25, 2005. Accessed November 17, 2022. "Born in a small town in the Catskill Mountains of New York, Bill spent his formative years 'off Exit 13' of the New Jersey Turnpike in the towns of Springfield and Cranford."
"Spotlight: Carol Blazejowski", SI for Women, May 28, 1999. Accessed May 4, 2007. "In 1974, while a student at Cranford High (NJ), Blazejowski told the school's athletic director (who was also the coach of the boys' basketball team) that she would play on boys' basketball team if no girls team was created. It wasn't long before Cranford had a girls' basketball team."
Dean Mathey (1891–1972)Archived November 9, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Princeton Area Community Foundation. Accessed November 8, 2016. "Dean Mathey was born in 1891 and raised in Cranford, N.J. where he attended the Pingry School."
"William M. Sperry (1839–1927)Archived November 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Amateur Astronomers. Accessed November 4, 2016. "William Miller Sperry who came to Cranford in 1898, and two of his brothers Thomas Alexander Sperry and Joseph Austin Sperry, had much to do with the development of the Cranford community as all three maintained a sincere and continuing interest in the civic growth of the area."
Jennifer WesthovenArchived March 24, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, HLN. Accessed March 28, 2013. "Westhoven earned a bachelor of arts degree in history and political science from Bryn Mawr College and grew up in Cranford, NJ."
"Meet Jordan White"Archived July 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, The Valley Beat. Accessed July 17, 2012. "Jordan White was born in Cranford, New Jersey, but raised in Nazareth where he learned to play guitar and classical piano. At age 19, White first began writing songs, by the age of 28 he has landed a song with a national label."
