Politics & Government

Five Things You Need to Know for Aug. 22, 2011

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1. The Cranford Conservation Utiliy will meet at the Municipal Building, in Room 108. The board will discuss the 2011-2012 sewer capital plan. A representative of Red Zone Robotics to show how its robot, with a computer, can go into sewer lines and find leaks.

2. The Friends of the continue to offer passes to museums to library patrons. Passes may be borrowed by adult Cranford Library card holders and by adult members of the Friends of the Cranford Public Library who belong to a library that participates in the MURAL borrowing system.  A pass may be borrowed for four days.  It cannot be reserved or renewed. To check on the availability of a pass, search the library catalog by museum name. 

3. Links to township ordinances establishing a Conservation Utility and establishing sewer fees are now available on the Cranford website.

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4. The Cranford Canoe Club, 250 Springfield Ave., is open from 11 a.m. until 8 p.m. for those who would like to rent canoes, kayaks and paddle boats.

5. On this date in 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt became the first U.S. chief executive to ride in an automobile, in Hartford, Conn.

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