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PLAINFIELD
Plainfield Today:
Plainfield Plaintalker: "No Independents Filed"
Crescent Times: "The Plainfield Club" | "Apple Awards: Schools recognize parental involvement"
Doc's Potpourri: "Tulips from the Keukenhof"
Save Muhlenberg: "Muhlenberg vote set for June 26"
Plainfield Trees: Tree enthusiast Greg Palermo features: "Flowering Dogwoods".
Councilors are blogging: Councilor Cory Storch asks whether Plainfield Democrats can 'kiss and make up' (here) and Councilor Rashid Burney (here).
Pedestrian Deaths: "Steps taken to cut high rate of pedestrian deaths" -- Would this work here?
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WHAT'S HAPPENING
- Summer Creativity: Check out the great summer offerings of our own duCret School of Art here. Go ahead, unlock the artist in you!
- Monday - June 16. 8 PM. City Council Business Meeting. City Council Chambers/Courthouse. Watchung Avenue and East 4th Street.
- Wednesday - June 18. 7:30 PM. Cultural & Heritage Commission. City Hall Library. Public invited.
- Thursday - June 19. Noon - 2 PM. Music in the Plaza. Live music, featuring Breez. Sponsored by the Division of Recreation, the Chamber of Commerce and the city's Economic Development Office. At the County Office Building Plaza, Front Street and Park Avenue. FREE.
- Thursday - June 19. 6 PM. Juneteenth Celebration. At Washington Community School, 427 Darrow Avenue. Parking in Spooner Avenue lot. FREE.
- Thursday - June 19. 8 PM. Planning Board. City Hall Library. Public invited.
- Friday - June 20. 10 AM - 3 PM. Juneteenth Celebration. At the Plainfield Senior Center, 305 East Front Street.
CENTRAL JERSEY
North Plainfield: "Woman charged with stealing cash from St. Joseph's school"
South Plainfield: "After new building rejected, library officials look to fix old one"
STATE
2008 Presidential Race: "McCain on Jersey: Not easy, but winnable"
2009 Governor's Race: "Dobbs says he's not considering running for governor in Jersey"
Hoboken's 'Hooters Cops': "Christie requests report"
State Parks: "No camping, swimming cuts in state parks"
State Pensions: "Political appointee benefits saved" -- Pols take care of their friends.
Waterloo Village: "Nonprofit seeks ruling on property at Waterloo Village"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here.
Margulies' Cartoon is here.
NATION / WORLD
Tim Russert: "Tributes and obits" -- A fellow Western New Yorker, he used to say "I come from Buffalo, where you're born Democrat and baptized Catholic." You have to know Buffalo to know how true this is.
2008 Campaigns: "Campaigns Unable to Agree on Series of Meetings"
Afghanistan: "Taliban Free 1,200 in Attack on Afghan Prison"
Pols & Loan Favors: "Countrywide's Chief Executive Offered Incentives to VIPs"
Supreme Court: "McCain Denounces Detainee Ruling" -- Ledger | WashPost |
OF INTEREST
Obit: "Stewart R. Mott, Longtime Patron of Liberal and Offbeat Causes" -- This obit will either mean something or it will not. Beetles rule.
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