CeaseFire -- at last!.. School resignations update.. Mother of all garage sales.. Rutgers beats Army..
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)
Crescent Times: "Oh no! 'IT' did it again?"
Plainfield Trees: "Red, the color of health: Sourwoods, Dogwoods, Sweetgums"
Operation CeaseFire: "Anti-violence push gets help" -- Courier | Ledger |
Fire Division: "Plainfield promotes six as part of fiscal reorganization"
Homefirst: "Homefirst receives Allstate Foundation grant"
Letter - CN: Jerry Hodge: "Plainfield has fallen from Queen City to haven for thugs"
Schools Funding: "Corzine admits court is key to school plan"
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WHAT'S HAPPENING
CENTRAL JERSEY
North Plainfield: "North Plainfield Class of 1937 reunites"
..... - "Man gets 5 years for striking cop"
Morristown Antiques Show: "Annual antiques show comes to Morristown Armory"
Piscataway: "Tax increase expected under proposed $46M 2008 budget"
Rutgers: "Rutgers beats Army, 41 - 6"
Union County: "County will pay $780K in 2003 suicide of teen inmate"
STATE
Death Penalty: "Assembly to decide soon on repealing death penalty"
..... - "Sister Prejean meets with Assembly Speaker Roberts"
Merck: "How the Vioxx mega-deal got done"
Thanksgiving Friday: "New controversy on Thanksgiving Friday"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here.
Margulies' Cartoon is here.
NATION / WORLD
Bush & Iraq: "Bush's 'Firsthand' Experience With War"
Pakistan: "Bhutto's detention inflames Pakistan"
SecState Rice: "Condi's Management at Issue"
Taxes: "House Passes Bill to Ease Alternative Minimum Tax"
OF INTEREST
Chatham's 'Sanctuary Concerts': "This church becomes a revered stop for minstrels"
Film: "'American Gangster' leaves ex-Newark cops feeling slighted"
Health: "Diabetes Drug Setbacks Focus Competition"
Phone Cards & Immigrants: "Immigrants Ripped Off by Phone Cards"
Obituary: "Norman Mailer, outspoken novelist"
Miss Manners: Check out the nation's doyenne of conduct here in the Washington Post.
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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)
- "Garage Sale today benefits singers" -- Something you need is waiting for you. Only you.
- "Schools brouhaha update"
Crescent Times: "Oh no! 'IT' did it again?"
Plainfield Trees: "Red, the color of health: Sourwoods, Dogwoods, Sweetgums"
Operation CeaseFire: "Anti-violence push gets help" -- Courier | Ledger |
Fire Division: "Plainfield promotes six as part of fiscal reorganization"
Homefirst: "Homefirst receives Allstate Foundation grant"
Letter - CN: Jerry Hodge: "Plainfield has fallen from Queen City to haven for thugs"
Schools Funding: "Corzine admits court is key to school plan"
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WHAT'S HAPPENING
- Today - November 10. 8 AM - 6 PM. Garage Sale - Benefiting The Harmony Celebration Chorus. At: 1105 Park Terrace, just off Belvidere Avenue. Go ahead! You know you need stuff!
- Today - November 10. 8 PM. Two Masses: Gounod and Vierne. Rarely performed treats by two French masters. Presented by the Crescent Choral Society. At: Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church, Watchung Avenue at East 7th Street. $20/adult, $15/senior, $5/student. Info (908) 756-2468.
- Monday - November 12. 11 AM. Veterans Day Ceremony. At the War Memorial, Watchung Avenue and East 7th Street.
- Monday - November 12. 8 PM. Van Wyck Brooks Historic District Monthly Meeting.
- Wednesday - November 14. 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.
- Tuesday - November 13. 7:30 PM. Building Bridges to Peace. A program for middle and high school students focused on personal and communal responsibility for fostering peace. Sponsor: Union County Peace Council. At: First United Methodist Church of Westfield. East Broad at North Avenue (access parking through Ferris Place). Light refreshments. UCPC website here. FREE.
CENTRAL JERSEY
North Plainfield: "North Plainfield Class of 1937 reunites"
..... - "Man gets 5 years for striking cop"
Morristown Antiques Show: "Annual antiques show comes to Morristown Armory"
Piscataway: "Tax increase expected under proposed $46M 2008 budget"
Rutgers: "Rutgers beats Army, 41 - 6"
Union County: "County will pay $780K in 2003 suicide of teen inmate"
STATE
Death Penalty: "Assembly to decide soon on repealing death penalty"
..... - "Sister Prejean meets with Assembly Speaker Roberts"
Merck: "How the Vioxx mega-deal got done"
Thanksgiving Friday: "New controversy on Thanksgiving Friday"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here.
Margulies' Cartoon is here.
NATION / WORLD
Bush & Iraq: "Bush's 'Firsthand' Experience With War"
Pakistan: "Bhutto's detention inflames Pakistan"
SecState Rice: "Condi's Management at Issue"
Taxes: "House Passes Bill to Ease Alternative Minimum Tax"
OF INTEREST
Chatham's 'Sanctuary Concerts': "This church becomes a revered stop for minstrels"
Film: "'American Gangster' leaves ex-Newark cops feeling slighted"
Health: "Diabetes Drug Setbacks Focus Competition"
Phone Cards & Immigrants: "Immigrants Ripped Off by Phone Cards"
Obituary: "Norman Mailer, outspoken novelist"
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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