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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: "Budget Notes: Public Safety"
Crescent Times: "Working on effectiveness" -- Maria is assessing the Assemblyman.
Campaign Blogs: Cory Storch | Deborah Dowe -- The candidates will be posting frequently.
Maxson School: "Maxson students to hold car wash"
NAACP: "Plainfield NAACP to hold Freedom Fund Awards" -- Courier | Ledger
Liberty Science Center: "District students will visit science center"
Gannett Ethics Reform series: "Party boss system still entrenched"
Route 78: "Motorists on Route 78 to get a break"
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WHAT'S HAPPENING
CENTRAL JERSEY
Edison: "Feds probe Edison police"
Elizabeth: "Ex-wrestling coach guilty of mishandling funds"
Hillside: "Half of town's watering holes suspended after police crackdown"
Stirling: "Agency, Uncommon Thread, assists autistic kids"
Woodbridge: "Suit filed against Hajj ripoff tour operator"
STATE
Commerce Bank Deal: "For foreign firms, time to buy into U.S. is now"
Double-dipping: "Paul Mulshine learns a civics lesson"
Health Benefits: "Poll: Most support tax hike to fund health benefits"
State Police - Editorial, SL: "A State Police whitewash?" -- Re: the Lords of Discipline.
Sheneman's Cartoon is here.
Margulies' Cartoon is here.
NATION / WORLD
Iraq: "Ex-Paratrooper Is Suspect in a Blackwater Killing"
Myanmar: "Monks Are Silenced, and for Now, Internet Is, Too"
S-Chip--
.......... - Bush: "Bush Vetoes Health Measure" -- One that 72% of Americans favor.
.......... - Corzine: "Corzine denounces Bush and his veto"
.......... - Analysis: "Bush the Fiscal Conservative?" -- Big spender Bush tries a makeover.
Subprime Mortgage Fallout --
.......... - Bear Stearns: "Bear Stearns announces new round of 310 layoffs"
.......... - Merrill Lynch: "2 Executives Are Ousted at Merrill"
Toture: "Secret U.S. Endorsement of Severe Interrogations"
OF INTEREST
High Schools & Drugs: "High school moves to use Breathalyzers"
Post-Partum Depression: "Help needed to cure 'baby blues'"
Radio Museum: "Camp Evans, a center of pioneering electronics, to grow in Wall Twp."
Rain Water Gardens: "Water works" -- Go Valerie!
Technology: "State program puts students with disabilities on path to success"
Miss Manners: Check out the nation's doyenne of conduct here in the Washington Post.
BOOK REVIEW LINKS: NY Times | Wash Post | Ledger | NY Rev Bks | London Rev Bks |
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: "Budget Notes: Public Safety"
Crescent Times: "Working on effectiveness" -- Maria is assessing the Assemblyman.
Campaign Blogs: Cory Storch | Deborah Dowe -- The candidates will be posting frequently.
Maxson School: "Maxson students to hold car wash"
NAACP: "Plainfield NAACP to hold Freedom Fund Awards" -- Courier | Ledger
Liberty Science Center: "District students will visit science center"
Gannett Ethics Reform series: "Party boss system still entrenched"
Route 78: "Motorists on Route 78 to get a break"
Got a tip? Question? Click here to send PT an email.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
- Today - October 4. 7 PM. League of Women Voters Meeting. Plainfield Public Library, Park Avenue & West 8th Street. Interested in the League's work in Plainfield? Visit a meeting.
- Tomorrow - October 5. 7 PM. Football: PHS at Hackensack.
- Tomorrow - October 5. 7 PM preview, Auction at 8 PM. Plainfield Area Humane Society Auction and Reception. Fine art, sports and music memorabilia and more. Hors d'oeuvres, wine and cheese and desserts. Door prizes. At the BUF, West 7th and Central Avenue. $30/person, $50/couple. Reservations and info: Andrea Koenig-Feldman, (908) 448-1164.
- Saturday - October 6. 8 PM. Plainfield Symphony: Music of the Americas and Spain. Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church. $25/General seating. $15/Senior & Student. Post-Concert buffet $25. Info: (908) 561-5140.
- Sunday - October 7. 1 - 4 PM. Urama Shikan: Music and Dance of the Andes. A Hispanic Heritage Month event sponsored by Union County College-Plainfield, UCC Student Government and the Latino Leadership Alliance of Union County. At UCC-Plainfield, East 2nd and Church Streets. FREE.
- Sunday - October 7. 2 - 6 PM. Men Can Cook for Kids. Fathers, grandfathers, uncles, big brothers and friends cook for the benefit of the King's Daughters Day School. Tickets: $45, $25 age 12 and under. Information: (908) 756-7788.
- Tuesday - October 9. 7 - 9 PM. City Council Budget Hearing. City Hall Library. 515 Watchung Avenue. Public invited.
- Wednesday - October 10. 7:30 - 9 PM. New Horizons College Club. Helping high school students prepare for college. See Club website here. At Washington Community School, 427 Darrow Avenue.
- Wednesday - October 10. 8 PM. New Interfaith Gospel Choir Rehearsal. Rehearsal for new choir to be led by Mark Miller, Minister of Music at Covenant United Methodist Church. At the church, 631 East Front Street, Plainfield. Info: Mark Miller, (973) 408-3844 or email mamiller@drew.edu.
- Thursday - October 11. 7 PM. Public Forum On School Superintendent Search. At Plainfield High School, 950 Park Avenue.
CENTRAL JERSEY
Edison: "Feds probe Edison police"
Elizabeth: "Ex-wrestling coach guilty of mishandling funds"
Hillside: "Half of town's watering holes suspended after police crackdown"
Stirling: "Agency, Uncommon Thread, assists autistic kids"
Woodbridge: "Suit filed against Hajj ripoff tour operator"
STATE
Commerce Bank Deal: "For foreign firms, time to buy into U.S. is now"
Double-dipping: "Paul Mulshine learns a civics lesson"
Health Benefits: "Poll: Most support tax hike to fund health benefits"
State Police - Editorial, SL: "A State Police whitewash?" -- Re: the Lords of Discipline.
Sheneman's Cartoon is here.
Margulies' Cartoon is here.
NATION / WORLD
Iraq: "Ex-Paratrooper Is Suspect in a Blackwater Killing"
Myanmar: "Monks Are Silenced, and for Now, Internet Is, Too"
S-Chip--
.......... - Bush: "Bush Vetoes Health Measure" -- One that 72% of Americans favor.
.......... - Corzine: "Corzine denounces Bush and his veto"
.......... - Analysis: "Bush the Fiscal Conservative?" -- Big spender Bush tries a makeover.
Subprime Mortgage Fallout --
.......... - Bear Stearns: "Bear Stearns announces new round of 310 layoffs"
.......... - Merrill Lynch: "2 Executives Are Ousted at Merrill"
Toture: "Secret U.S. Endorsement of Severe Interrogations"
OF INTEREST
High Schools & Drugs: "High school moves to use Breathalyzers"
Post-Partum Depression: "Help needed to cure 'baby blues'"
Radio Museum: "Camp Evans, a center of pioneering electronics, to grow in Wall Twp."
Rain Water Gardens: "Water works" -- Go Valerie!
Technology: "State program puts students with disabilities on path to success"
Miss Manners: Check out the nation's doyenne of conduct here in the Washington Post.
BOOK REVIEW LINKS: NY Times | Wash Post | Ledger | NY Rev Bks | London Rev Bks |
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