Dan picks up Courier's, Ledger's dropped balls.. Secret school funding plans.. duCret offers classes..
PLAINFIELD
Plainfield Today: "Courier: Few attend board meeting" and "Ledger: School hirings solidify finances" -- As a public service, I am transcribing today's Courier and Ledger stories on the school district, neither of which appeared online. -- Dan.
Van Wyck Brooks HD: "Cooking Club Outing: Afghan Cuisine" -- Interested?
Council Votes: "Rice plan would require full majority on all votes" -- Rice-Booker tussle could have severe consequences for all local governing bodies.
Cousins Restaurant: "Jamaican restaurant spices up Plainfield" -- Congrats Betty and Ray!
duCret School of Art: "Summer art classes offered"
Housing Authority: "Job fair scheduled for 10 a.m. today"
Senior Center: "Juneteenth event scheduled for Friday"
Letter - CN: Randy Schaeffer: "Wolfowitz cartoon misses the point"
McGreeveys: "Dina blames McGreevey for low book sales"
School Funding: "Funding experiments kept under wraps" -- Uh-oh.
The Ledger missed today's Plainfield story (see Plainfield Today) and still hasn't posted Monday's Union County items. Maybe Crackhead Bob is their web person?
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WHAT'S HAPPENING
- Today and Tomorrow. Plainfield Pride Film Festival. At the Plainfield Public Library, 8th Street and Park Avenue. Info: 757-6103. Complete details and description on the website. FREE.
- Wednesday. 6:00 PM - "In My Father's Church" and "Round Trip"
- Thursday. 6:00 PM - "Madame Sata"
- 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.
- Friday. June 15. 6 PM Potluck. 7 PM Program. Think Globally / Act Locally: Community Pizza Party. First Unitarian Society. 724 Park Avenue. Info: 756-0750. FREE.
- Saturday. June 16. 8 PM. New Jersey Gay Men's Chorus: Greetings From New Jersey. - A concert celebrating its 16th season. Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church. East 7th Street and Watchung Avenue. $25 at the door. Info: www.njgmc.org, or call (609) 396-7774.
- Thursday. June 21. 6 PM. 3rd Thursday Concerts at Plainwood Square Park. Plainfield's own New Jersey Concert Opera. Sponsor: Plainwood Square Merchants and City of Plainfield. At Plainwood Square Park, South Avenue. FREE.
CENTRAL JERSEY
100 Black Men: "Newark man gets 21 months for fraud"
Cranford: "Restored WPA mural back at Cranford Post Office"
East Orange: "Council reappoints police director"
Hillside: "Activist unseats incumbent in Hillside runoff" -- Charlotte loses one.
Kean U.: "Kean campus road project at a standstill"
Newark: "Housing Authority fires its special force of housing police"
North Plainfield: "Villa Maria development before Planning Board tonight"
Scotch Plains: "Inmate pleads in rape-killing of Jerseyan"
STATE
2008 Primary - SL: "Menendez joins Clinton campaign"
Budget - SL: "A state budget plan with days to spare"
..... - NYT: "Budget Agreement Is Near, New Jersey Officials Say"
..... - CN: "Corzine, lawmakers agree - with less of last year's drama"
Healthcare: "Report: Jersey runs in middle of the health care pack"
Open Space - SL: "Deal reached on open-space funding"
..... - CN: "Open-space aid bill may be back on ballots"
Stem Cell Research: "State approves funds to become stem cell leader"
Supreme Court Nomination: "Senator may invoke power to halt Rabner" -- Corzine stubs toe again?
UMDNJ: "UMDNJ suspends its top official in Camden amid fiscal allegations"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here.
Margulies' Cartoon is here.
NATION / WORLD
Attorneygate - WP: "Bush Aides Helped Respond to Firings, E-Mails Show"
.......... - Truthout: "PR Expert's Role in Attorney Firing Probed"
Fitzgerald & Libby - WP: "Prosecutor Wants Libby Imprisoned Now"
FDA - SL: "FDA reviews cadaver-tissue industry"
GSA - AP: "GSA Chief Accused of Hatch Act Violation" -- Punishment 'to the fullest extent' recommended.
Guantanamo - Sydney Morning Herald: "Nuremberg Prosecutor: Guantanamo trials unfair"
Immigration 'Reform' - SL: Tom Moran: "Menendez on the big immigration bill: Never mind"
Iraq - NYT: "Iraqis Are Failing to Meet U.S. Benchmarks"
OF INTEREST
AC's Steel Pier: "Swan song of a pier without peer"
Antioch College: "Antioch to Close Amid Money Woes" -- Among Antioch's graduates: Coretta Scott King, Rod Serling, Stephen Jay Gould.
Faith-based Ripoff: "U.S. Grant Winds Up as 2 Ships Gone Awry"
Home Health Aides: "High Court Rules Against Home Aide on Wages" -- No minimum wage, no overtime. Some career.
Miss Manners: Check out the nation's doyenne of conduct here in the Washington Post.
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