Traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall to stop in Cranberry

A trailer carrying Washington’s Vietnam Memorial Wall will stop at the Victory Family Church at 21150 Route 19 in Cranberry on Aug. 23 from 3-5 pm to be escorted at 5 pm by police, helicopters and hundreds of motorcycles to the VA Hospital in Butler.

Work will close Burke Road weekdays, August 10 to 25

Work by Public Works employees to install new storm water pipes and to remove several large trees along a quarter-mile segment of Burke Road in the eastern portion of the Township will require daytime closure of the street to through traffic between 7:00 ...

Don’t even knock; registry allows residents to opt out of door-to-door solicitation

Under a new Township ordinance, peddlers, vendors, and those canvasing neighborhoods to collect money can be barred from soliciting at certain addresses if the homeowner makes that preference a matter of record. At its July 27 meeting, Cranberry&rsquo...

North Boundary Road berm to be widened

A project involving the development of a safe walking corridor along North Boundary Road between North Boundary Park and Franklin Road took a step forward at the July 27 meeting of Cranberry’s Board of Supervisors. The improvements, which will r...

Grants for two PennDOT traffic light improvements accepted

Two Green Light Go grants from PennDOT totaling $750,000 have been officially accepted by the Township. At its July 27 meeting, Cranberry’s Board of Supervisors adopted separate motions to sign off on the grants which will fund 80 percent of the...

Plan for new Rochester Road turning lane right-of-way approved

Plans to add a new left turn lane to Rochester Road at Rt. 19 took a step forward at the July 27 Board of Supervisors meeting. By adding another left turn-only lane from Rochester onto Rt. 19 northbound, the plan would enable traffic turning onto 19 from ...

Plans for reducing stormwater pollution examined

Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection has determined that certain streams in and around Cranberry fall short of the state’s water quality standards, particularly as they relate to sediment. As part of the effort to rene...

Township returns to bond market

Interest rates for borrowers with good credit are still low, which prompted Cranberry – which carries a very high Aa1 Moody’s rating – to seek funds for financing the remainder of its current $48 million project wastewater tr...

New retirement community approved

An independent, assisted and continuing care community for seniors featuring a number of amenities and a unit for dementia care will be included in the mix of uses at the Village of Cranberry Woods, a 57-acre development along Franklin Road. Following a p...

Cranberry C.U.P. lays out plans for 2017 weekend

Cranberry C.U.P. President Anthony Bertolino and members of his organization’s board briefed the Township’s Supervisors on upcoming activities associated with its weekend-long fundraising event. C.U.P. activities, in addition to a comm...

Fire Company beefs up its police unit

Two new fire police officers – both intimately familiar with Cranberry’s emergency services – were sworn in by Cranberry’s Board of Supervisors on July 27. In the mid-2000’s, and then again the following d...

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We're flushing our system

Cranberry’s annual fire hydrant and distribution system flushing program begins Monday, June 19.

Water treatment shifts for summer

This change is intended to benefit customers by reducing the levels of disinfection byproducts (DBPs) in the system, while still providing protection from waterborne disease.

This change will have no noticeable effect on most customers. However, for those ...

Meter Replacement Program

The Township recently began a $3.5 million project to replace more than 8,000 older residential and commercial water meters with a new generation of remotely-read digital units.  

Over time water meters wear out and their accuracy declines. &n...