Al McWilliams services listed.. School board election.. Hospital lobbying.. YM Wellness Center opens
PLAINFIELD
(Mayor McWilliams introduces his crime-fighting plan in 2005.
Though she based her election campaign on opposition to McWilliams'
plan, Mayor Robinson-Briggs' administration eventually put most
of the plan's elements in place.)
"Al McWilliams - Remembrances and Expressions of Sympathy"
Share your remembrances, celebrations of his contributions, and expressions of sympathy at this page. Please use the COMMENTS option at the bottom of the page -- and please sign your name. I will post the comments as they are received. If you have problems or if you are unfamiliar with the 'comments' function, send me a signed email and I will put it up. Thank you -- Dan.Plainfield Today: "Services for Al McWilliams" -- Times, location, parking info.
..... - "now the eyes of my eyes are opened -- e. e. cummings"
Plain Talker: "Happy Easter"
School Board Election: Candidate profiles appear in today's Courier, print edition only.
Hospitals: "Lobbying efforts by ailing hospitals soar" -- Solaris (JFK) ranked among top 16.
Letter: Herb Green: "Vote Cox, Graves, Estevez for Plainfield school board"
YMCA: "Area YMCAs hope to Activate America Saturday"
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REAL ESTATE SUNDAY
SMALL PICTURE
Floors: "Seeing the Beauty in Imperfect Floors"BIG PICTURE
Homes: "Buyers Seek Historic or Period Homes"
Ledger: "Home Finder" and "Real Estate" sections online.
Courier: "Real Estate" section online.
NYTimes: "Residential Sales Around the Region"
Trulia: "Your Personal Real Estate Google"
Mortgages: "US Mortgage Payment Index"
Mortgages: "Making Sense of All the Math"
State Tax Receipts: "Housing Slump Pinches States in Pocketbook"
WHAT'S HAPPENING
- Today. Happy Easter.
. - Wednesday. April 11. 7 PM. School Board Candidate Forum. Sponsor: League of Women Voters. Plainfield Public Library. 8th Street at Park Avenue. FREE.
- Thursday. April 12. 6:30 - 8:30 PM. Black Parenting: Who's Minding the Kids? Plainfield Public Library. 8th Street at Park Avenue. Sponsor: Nubian Union and McDonald's-Plainfield. FREE.
- Saturday. April 14. 10 AM - 2 PM. Health Fair. Shiloh Baptist Church, 517 West 4th Street. Screenings, Hip-hop aerobics, Martial arts demonstrations. FREE.
- Saturday. April 14. 10 AM - 3 PM. YM Wellness Center Ribbon Cutting and Healthy Kids Day. YMCA, 518 Watchung Avenue. Free use of pool and wellness center for the day. Info: (908) 756-6060 or www.plainfield-y.org/. FREE.
- Saturday. April 14. 1 - 4 PM. Borrowing The Earth: A family event to promote meaningful action on global climate change. Kite-building, T-shirt making, scavenger hunt. Munchies and beverage. Sponsor: Step It Up 2007. Location: The Loop Playground at Watchung Reservation. Info and directions: email Jennifer. FREE.
- Sunday. April 15. 4 PM. Plainfield Symphony Orchestra Children's Concert. Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church. Info: 561-5140. FREE.
- Tuesday. April 17. 2 - 9 PM. School Board Elections. Your vote counts, use it!
CENTRAL JERSEY
New Brunswick: "$187 Million Public School, Under a Cloud in New Jersey" -- The fast-track 'demonstration schools' turned out to be just what PT thought, cesspools of 'waste, fraud and abuse'.
North Plainfield: "Latin coalition comes to the Rescue Squad's rescue"
Paper Mill Playhouse: "Paper Mill's fundraising performance falls short"
Readington Bank Robbery: "The road to a tragic showdown at bank"
STATE
The Auditor - For political junkies: "Sunday, April 08, 2007"
101.5 'Jersey Guys': "Craig Carton: High Frequency Offender"
Child Welfare Database: "A costly wait for abused-kid database"
Schools: "Special Education Enrollment Up Again in ’06"
Towns:
..... - Asbury Park: "For First Time Since 1993, Asbury Park Gets a Police Chief"
..... - Trenton: "Trenton Is Tense After 9 Killings in 3 Months"
..... - Bayonne: "Something's missing in union vote: The mob"
..... - East Orange: "Developer holds out for upscale chain, wants to avoid more dollar stores"
..... - Paterson: "A New Jersey few know: Paterson's thriving Arab community"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here.
Margulies' Cartoon is here.
NATION / WORLD
Editorial Cartoon: Larry Wright, The Detroit News
Attorneygate - NYT: "Attorney Inquiry Touches a Pillar of New Mexico"
Bush: Paul Mulshine: "The decider needs to decide"
Bush's 'Due Diligence' - WP: "White House Looked Past Alarms on Kerik"
OF INTEREST
Arts Fundraising: "Maestro of the Internet: Symphony Uses YouTube"
Easter: John Farmer: "Easter for those who don't believe"
Overnight Street Parking: "East Orange experiment uses permits, lifts ban on some streets"
Miss Manners: Check out the nation's doyenne of conduct here in the Washington Post.
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