Cranbury News

From garden decorations and fountains, to handbags, wall art and soap, Cranbury's new business brings an eclectic variety of handmade, one of a kind and repurposed antiques and collectibles.

The 93rd Hightstown/East Windsor Memorial Day Parade will take place May 28 at 9 a.m., rain or shine, beginning at the Walter C. Black School on Stockton Street in Hightstown.

Four Princeton High School students, plus one each from Montgomery High School and Community Park Elementary School, won a contest to name cartoons that will anchor a community-wide SAFE PRINCETON traffic safety education campaign scheduled for launch June 1. At a ceremony on Friday, May 18 in Princeton High School, the six students were awarded a ... (more)

A car fire on the New Jersey Turnpike northbound in Cranbury has closed one lane, according to the state Department of Transportation.

The Middlesex County Office of Health Services is reporting that a stray cat tested positive for rabies in the Township of Cranbury.

Hightstown residents will be seeing a $72 tax increase on the average assessed house in the Borough after the 2012 budget was passed unanimously Monday night.

NEWARK - Construction on the Panasonic office tower in downtown Newark has begun, one year after the Japanese electronics giant signed a lease to move to the city and nearly two decades after a foundation was built for a development that never happened at the site.

A man whose wallet and iPhone were allegedly stolen from Wawa used the phone's tracking software to find the device, leading police to a nearby car filled with marijuana and drug paraphernalia, according to the Borough Police.

A remarkable new energy source from fractional hydrogen will allow a gallon of ordinary water to become the energy equivalent of 200 barrels of oil, a team of physicists working near the onetime New Jersey laboratories of Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein is saying.

CRANBURY - Anyone who regularly travels the lower portion of the New Jersey Turnpike knows all too well about "The Merge," that dreaded bottleneck where the southbound Turnpike goes from six lanes in each direction to five lanes starting at Exit 9 in New Brunswick, then down to three at Exit 8A in Cranbury.

Two suspects in a robbery of a TD Bank in Monroe on Wednesday afternoon were captured after an extensive manhunt, police said this morning.

East Windsor, Cranbury and Hightstown will receive money from the state Department of Environmental Protection this year to fund litter cleanup and community beautification efforts, the Christie Administration announced Monday.

State Police saturated the East Ward this past weekend, with operations this Friday and Saturday resulting in 38 arrests, authorities said.

A An expensive piece of machinery was stolen from a Riverside Drive worksite in Keasbey last week.

A remarkable new energy source from fractional hydrogen will allow a gallon of ordinary water to become the energy equivalent of 200 barrels of oil, a team of physicists working near the onetime New Jersey laboratories of Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein is saying.

When Tony Alfano started working at George's Garage & Towing in Cranbury in 1996, he was engaged to Nicole Nobile, the owner's daughter.