Crescent Area yard sale today.. Cab cam catches assault.. Towers West renovations.. Schools move on..
PLAINFIELD
Plainfield Today: (Click HERE to read the posts serially, otherwise take your pick below. Check back later for more stories in the pipeline. -- Dan)
- "Crescent Neighborhood Yard Sale Today"
- "Ledger Litter - You Can Get It Stopped"
- "Cab cam catches assault, helps solve theft" [Ledger]
Abdel/Smith Fraud Case: "Officer loses his badge for role in insurance bilk"
PHS Reunion: "30s and 40s PHS grads reunite in Piscataway"
Towers West: "State awards $54M for low-cost rentals"
Letter: Karen Clarke-McPherson: "Plainfield educational community must move on"
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WHAT'S HAPPENING
- Saturday and Sunday. Carnival. Saturday afternoon/evening, Sunday afternoon/evening. Location: PHS Soccer Field, Kenyon Avenue. Entry free, the rest...not.
- Saturday. June 23. 9 AM - 5 PM. Crescent Avenue Neighborhood Yard Sale. Starts at East 9th Street and Park Avenue. You never have enough stuff, and besides it's for a worthy cause! Van Wyck Brooks HD will also have a table.
- Sunday. June 23. 10 AM - 4 PM. Crescent Avenue Neighborhood Yard Sale. Starts at East 9th Street and Park Avenue. You never have enough stuff, and besides it's for a worthy cause! Van Wyck Brooks HD will also have a table.
- Monday. June 25. 7 PM. Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' Live Slide Show. Sponsor: Assemblywoman Linda Stender. Location: JCC of Central Jersey, 1391 Martine Avenue, Scotch Plains. Bring as many as you like. RSVP: (908) 668-1900 or email Asw Stender. FREE.
- Tuesday. June 26. 6:30 PM. Block Associations Liaison Meeting. Sponsor: Union County Prosecutor's Community Outreach Office. St. Mary's School, 513 West 6th Street. RSVP: (908) 791-7130.
- Wednesday. June 27. 7 PM. Community Forum on Economic Development/Redevelopment. Hosted by Mayor Sharon Robinson-Briggs. Washington Community School, 427 Darrow Avenue. Parking in Spooner Avenue lot and on street. All are invited.
- Saturday. June 30. 3 - 4:30 PM. Rally Against the War in Iraq. Sponsor: People's Organization for Progress. Location: Armed Forces Recruiting Center, 116 East Front Street. Info: Steven Hatcher, (908) 753-5273.
CENTRAL JERSEY
Newark Yearbook: "Gay pair's photo covered up in yearbook"
STATE
Healy Trial - SL: "Jersey City mayor guilty in cop clash"
..... - NYT: "Mayor of Jersey City Is Convicted Over a Scuffle"
NYC's 'Congestion Pricing': "Be prepared to ride to work on your feet"
Power Grid: "Region's power grid will get an upgrade"
Public Colleges: "College leaders make appeal to state for aid"
Turnpike - SL: "GOP demands Corzine strike Turnpike budget item"
..... - NYT: "Jersey Decides Its Toll Road Plan Still Needs Time"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here.
Margulies' Cartoon is here.
NATION / WORLD
9/11 & bin Laden Family: "FBI's 9/11 Saudi Flight Documents Released" -- You'll recall members of the bin Laden family were in the US and were whisked out of the country...
Attorneygate - The Hill: "White House contempt motion authorized" -- Deadline is Thursday.
Cheney: "White House Defends Cheney's Refusal of Oversight"
..... - Dan Froomkin: "The Method to Cheney's Madness"
Dept of Justice: "Third-in-Command at Justice Dept. Resigns" -- This is top aide #6 to go.
Domestic Spying: "Ashcroft: Officials Fought Over Snooping"
Iraq: "Baghdad Offensive May Simply Shift Violence Elsewhere"
OF INTEREST
Authorly Fraud: "Jury Finds ‘JT LeRoy’ Was Fraud"
'Sopranos', the Industry: "Chewing over Tony's last meal"
Obituary: "Hank Medress, Doo-Wop Singer on ‘Lion Sleeps Tonight’"
Miss Manners: Check out the nation's doyenne of conduct here in the Washington Post.
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