Senior Center update.. Where is the new website?.. Aaronoff, Smith retire.. Worker falls from roof..
PLAINFIELD
Plainfield Today: (Click HERE to read the posts serially, otherwise take your pick below. There are more stories up than posted below, and more go up during the day. -- Dan)
Plain Talker: "Municipal Websites: How it's done"
Crescent Times: "More on Twin City"
Plainfield Trees: "Cedars, gods, and Gilgamesh"
Homefirst: "Aaronoff retires as exec at Homefirst"
New Senior Center: "Officials detail plans for long-awaited senior center"
Health Fair: "Plainfield seniors seek info, tests at center's health fair"
Emerson School: "Worker falls from roof of school"
Richmond Towers Fire?: "Sprinkler system puts out apartment fire"
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REAL ESTATE SUNDAY
SMALL PICTURE
Fraud: "EquiHome Mortgage of Bernardsville convicted of predatory lending"BIG PICTURE
Hoboken: "Falling in Love With Hoboken’s Prices" -- This is from a Manhattan point of view; meanwhile, I met some new residents who moved from Hoboken because of Plainfield's prices.
Missed Mortgage Payments: "Some help available for debtors"
Taxes: "What’s a Qualified Residence for Income-Tax Purposes?"
Plainfield Today: "Real Estate: You ain't seen nothin' yet"TOOLS
Subprime Mortgages: "US Tightens Rules on Subprime Mortgages"
Mortgages: "US Mortgage Payment Index"
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", "Premier Estates" 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
- Today. July 1. 2 - 4 PM. Exhibit: In Honor of That Grand Old Flag. American flags on display representing the evolution from 30 to 50 states. Worn or damaged US flags may be brought by visitors for proper disposal by the Society. Drake House Museum, 602 West Front Street. FREE.
- Tuesday. July 3. 11 AM. Senior Center Groundbreaking. East Front Street, across from Bank of America.
- Wednesday. July 4.
- 10 AM. 84th Annual July 4th Parade. Front Street.
- 5:30 PM. Concert. Cedar Brook Park. Free.
- Dusk. Fireworks Display. Cedar Park.
CENTRAL JERSEY
North Plainfield: "Brooks Smith retiring from Watchung Ave. Presbyterian after 29 years" -- We will miss you, Brooks!
Edison: "In Edison, primary a $500,000 scrimmage"
Liberty Science Center: "Bigger, more dazzling, it's about to reopen" -- On time and on budget.
Newark - Booker: "Booker's first year a wearying journey"
.......... - "Status of Booker's agenda"
.......... - Joan Whitlow: "Verdict not yet in on Booker's first year in office"
..... - Guns: "One gun's deadly journey to Newark"
Perth Amboy: "USPS proposed to outsource some delivery"
Union County: "Balancing burdens, benefits of new park"
STATE
The Auditor - For political junkies: "Sunday, July 01, 2007"
Corzine's Shea: "A Right-Hand Man May Exit for Real" -- And who comes next?
Immigration - OpEd, SL: Nicholas Montalto: "A humane approach on immigration"
School Integration: "Using socioeconomics to diversify schools"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here.
Margulies' Cartoon is here.
NATION / WORLD
Attorneygate - CBS: "Another Lawyer In Attorney Firings Flap Quits" -- I think that makes it seven.
Bush: "Bush, Mideast Wars and End-Time Prophecy"
Glasgow Airport Attack: "Rigged Vehicle Rams Terminal at U.K. Airport"
Iraq - Intelligence: "In Iraq, US Outsources Intelligence-Gathering"
..... - Troops: "Worst 3 months for US troops in the war"
Supreme Court: "Rightward Turn and Dissension Define Court This Term"
OF INTEREST
Bush & Churchill - OpEd, WP: Lynne Olson: "Why Winston Wouldn't Stand For W" -- Olson is the author of 'Troublesome Young Men', about Churchill's fight to replace Chamberlain.
Environment: "Jersey Woman Canoes for a Cause, From Miami to Maine"
False IDs: "For illegals, false IDs are easy to find, hard to track"
Immigration: "Immigration debate rages in Pennsylvania coal town"
Older Drivers: "Older drivers sparking concerns, precautions" -- and TIPS for older drivers.
Technotrash: "How do you throw out your old PC and cell phones without the world learning everything about you?"
Miss Manners: Check out the nation's doyenne of conduct here in the Washington Post.
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