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Sunday, June 3, 2007

Big-name retail coming?.. Shakespeare Garden album.. Housing downturn length..

PLAINFIELD




Plainfield Today: "Shakespeare Garden at 80: An Album"
Crescent Times: "Our Homes, District, and Pride"
Van Wyck Brooks HD: "It's all in the details"

Campaign Blogs (in alphabetical order): "Tony Rucker" | "Cory Storch"

Retail: "Big-name retailers in store for Plainfield"
Aguilar Slaying: "Slain city woman had broken up with gunman"
Byron Halsey: "A prayer of thanks for freedom and absolution"
YMCA: "YMCA appoints chief of housing services"


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REAL ESTATE SUNDAY

SMALL PICTURE
Home Equity: "A New Way to Tap Home Equity"
Maintenance: "Making Accidents Less Likely to Happen"

BIG PICTURE


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Market Conditions - NYT: "The Long Life Span of a Housing Downturn"
Mortgages: "US Mortgage Payment Index"

TOOLS
Buy or Rent?: "Cost Comparison Tool" -- Enter your own values to calculate which is better, buying or renting. A really neat tool!
Ledger: "Home Finder" and "Real Estate" sections online.
Courier: "Real Estate" section online.
NYTimes: "This Week's Residential Sales Around the Region"
Trulia: "Your Personal Real Estate Google"

WHAT'S HAPPENING
  • Sunday. June 3. 2 PM. In Praise of Porches: How porches influenced life in Victorian Plainfield. Sponsor: Historical Society of Plainfield. At: The Pillars B&B, 922 Central Avenue. Refreshments will be served.

  • Exhibit. Through June 18. Wed-Sat, 10 - 4. New Jersey Landscapes by Gerry Heydt. Studio 7 Gallery. 5 Morristown Road, Bernardsville. Info: (908) 963-0365.

  • Monday. June 4. 7 PM. Crescent Area Neighborhood Ass'n. Potluck and Meeting. 829 Park Avenue (corner of East 9th Street). "If you own, rent, work, or are just fond of the Crescent Area Historic District and you would like to see and participate on the future shaping steps for the Neighborhood Association, please come to this meeting." -- Organizer Maria Pellum in Crescent Times.

  • Tuesday. June 5. 6 AM - 8 PM. Primary Election. Democrats and Republicans vote for candidates for the general election. Dems also vote for County Committee members. Registered voters who have no declared party affiliation may do so at the sign-in table and vote in the primary. At your district polling location. Info, City Clerk's office: (908) 753-3222.

  • Wednesday. June 6. 9 AM - 12:30 PM. Urban Schools - Public Will. Conference on urban schools by the Public Education Institute of Rutgers. BOE member Christian Estevez will be a panelist. Larry Leverett will moderate. FREE, but advance registration required.

  • Saturday. June 9. Noon - 7 PM. Rhythm & Blues by the Brook. Sponsored by Union County Freeholders. At Cedar Brook Park. FREE.

  • Saturday. June 9. 7 PM. Opening Gala - Plainfield Pride Film Festival. Screening "20 Centimeters." At the home of Councilor Rashid Burney. 1127 Watchung Avenue. $25/person. Info: 757-6103.

  • Sunday. June 10. Noon - 6 PM.. 2nd Annual Plainfield Pride Picnic. Sponsors: Sleepy Hollow Realtors and Wells Fargo Mortgage. Music, clowns, facepainting, jugglers and more. Proceeds benefit Hyacinth AIDS Center and The Pride Center. At Leland Avenue Park, near Cook School. FREE.

  • Sunday. June 10. 2 PM. Display: In Honor of that Grand Old Flag. Flag Day commemorated by the Historical Society of Plainfield with a display of its flag collection. At the Drake House, 602 West Front Street. FREE. Refreshments will be served.
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CENTRAL JERSEY

Berkeley Heights: "Camp Berkeley Heights - New Providence & Summit Look Out!"
Livingston: "Livingston Town Center has 1-families, row houses, condos, stores and restaurants"
Newark: "Dispute puts city contracts in limbo" -- How many votes make a majority?


STATE

The Auditor - For political junkies: "Sunday, June 03, 2007"

JFK Plot - SL: "The plot to blow up JFK"
.......... - Pipeline: "For most people, this river is out of view"
.......... - Jamat al Muslimeen: "Cast in a supporting role: A group notorious in Trinidad"
..... - NYT: "4 Accused of Plot to Blow Up Facilities at Kennedy Airport"

Homeland Security: "Cargo inspection critical part to war on terror"
Hospitals: "State to make hospitals report infection rates" -- And national overview.
Legislature: "Parties both want to trim tax boards" -- And Ledger editorial on Green's role.
Stuart Rabner: "A prosecutor who dreamed of life on the bench hits the jackpot"

Sheneman's Cartoon is here.
Margulies' Cartoon is here.


NATION / WORLD

Ashcroft - Newsweek: "Congress wants Ashcroft to testify about showdown over eavesdropping"
Bush, Cheney Visitor Logs - AP: "White House follows new path to secrecy"
Global Warming - WP: Dan Froomkin: "Bush's Climate-Change Feint" -- Those Brits write fiercely.
.......... - SL: "Why critics are bashing Bush's proposals on climate change"
Iraq - ABC: "ABC Learns of Plans to Keep Troops in Iraq Beyond 2009"
.......... - WP: "Before War, CIA Warned of Negative Outcomes"
Marine Corps - WP: "In Clash With Marines, Anti-War Reservists Gain Ally in VFW"
Rove - Time: "Rove Linked to Targeting of Ex-Alabama Governor"


OF INTEREST

Author Cindy Brown Austin: "Voice From the Slums That Refused to Be Silenced"
The Cultural Wars: John Farmer: "The world could use another Moses"
Exhibit: "Bugs and Trees, Up Close and Luminous"
Historic Preservation: "King or Queen for a Day? Have We Got a Castle for You"
Prostate Cancer: "Flaxseed may slow tumor growth, study finds"
Strokes: "Timing and hospital are keys to recovery"

Miss Manners: Check out the nation's doyenne of conduct here in the Washington Post.

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