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Blanco memorial service this evening, 6:00 PM, Queen City Academy, corner West 7th & Grant, parking in the rear.
Route 78: "Commuter help online"
PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
Plainfield Today: "Ray Blanco: His Legacy, Our Opportunity"
Council Vacancy - SL: "Public safety director leads council field"
..... - CN: "Plainfield Dems nominate three to replace Blanco"
FY2007 Budget: "Reality of rising county, city pension costs sets in" -- plus table of Plainfield entities
Route 78: "First 'rough' morning on Rt. 78 rolls smoothly"
South Avenue Condo Proposal [next to last item]: "Zoning board hearing complex variance"
Union County College: "Tuition hikes blamed on soaring enrollments and costs, less aid" -- +5.1% for UCC
Connections? Food For Thought
..... - Fire Dept. Diversity: "Seeking Diverse Fire Dept., City Relaxes Requirements"
..... - Public Pensions: "Public Pension Plans Face Billions in Shortages"
..... - Home Maintenance: "Jersey's strapped homeowners slip into maintenance gap"
..... - 'Transit Village': "Old J&J plant to be leased as developer seeks transit village"
..... - Shared Services: "W. Orange weighs sharing fire services with Orange, Montclair"
Events for this week are here
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. |....PLAINFIELD EVENTS CALENDAR....|
. |..Click HERE to get listing form..|
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Legal Notices: Go here, and click on 'New Search' You can search by County, Newspaper
or keyword [such as 'Plainfield' or 'Sheriff']
TRI-COUNTY AREA___________________________________________________________________________
Bridgewater: "Bridgewater prepares $5 million bond ordinance"
Cranford: "Downtown would be a showcase, living space for artists"
Linden: "Harvesting electricity from an old landfill"
Roselle Park: "Popular librarian resigns after transfer"
Somerville: "Parking fines set to go up in Somerville"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
Surfing: "Magazine's account of woman as first to ride waves on East Coast rattles sport's lovers"
__________________
Property Tax Reform:
..... - SL: "History lesson on tax reform"
__________________
DYFS: "Temporary DYFS workers finally made permanent"
Legislature: "Sen. Wayne Bryant a trustee of bank in line for aid under his program"
NJ National Guard: "Watching for illegal migrants, Guardsmen bored at the border"
Towns:
..... - Teaneck: "Mailman's delivery leads to his arrest"
..... - East Orange: "Discovery Channel airs quest for Upsala artifacts tonight"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
2006 Elections - WP: "House Incumbents at Risk, Poll Finds"
Alaska Oil Pipeline - SL: "U.S. faces oil pinch after pipe shutdown" -- there is much more to come on this story
DeLay - WP: "GOP Loses Bid to Drop DeLay From Texas Ballot"
Iraq - Editorial, NYT: "A Timetable Isn’t an Exit Strategy"
Middle East - SL: "Providing peacekeepers is a minefield for U.N."
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
Beer, Rolling Rock: "Latrobe’s Fizzle Is Newark’s Fizz"
Health: "Study links common hay fever to Parkinson's disease"
Labor Movement: Charles J. Whalen: "Labor has never recovered from the breaking of the PATCO strike"
Real Estate: "Reverse Mortgages: A quick fix?"
Taxes: "How the US super-rich 'dodge' taxes"
Miss Manners: Check out the witty doyenne of conduct here in the Washington Post.
BOOK REVIEW LINKS: NY Times | Wash Post | Ledger | NY Rev Bks | London Rev Bks |
SPORTS LINKS: PHS | Courier | Ledger | NY Times | NY Post | Daily News | El Diario | Hoy |
DISASTERS AND AID OPPORTUNITIES_________________________________________________________
Relief and Aid Contacts:
Red Cross: http://www.redcross.org/
Salvation Army: http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/
Catholic Charities: http://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism: http://www.uscj.org/
Islamic Relief: http://www.irw.org/
Other Area Contacts: "Indonesia Relief Contacts"
PLAINFIELD TODAY: My personal take on Plainfield: news, views, gossip and sightings.
PLAINFIELD EVENTS: The online calendar for Plainfield events, performances, and meetings.
ABBREVIATIONS AND LINKS FOR FREQUENTLY CITED NEWS SOURCES
CN - Courier News | SL - Star-Ledger | NYT - New York Times | WP - Washington Post |
AFP - Agence France Presse | AP - Associated Press | APP - Asbury Park Press | BR - Bergen Record |
CSM - Christian Science Monitor | CP - Courier Post [Cherry Hill] | HNT - Home News [New Brunswick] |
JJ - Jersey Journal [Jersey City] | LAT - Los Angeles Times | ND - Newsday | NOLA - Times-Picayune |
NPR - National Public Radio | PNJ - Politics NJ | TNS - The New Standard | TT - Trenton Times |
(In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. Plainfield Today and Clippings have no affiliation whatsoever with the originator of these articles nor are Plainfield Today or Clippings endorsed or sponsored by the originator.)
Some publications, such as the NY Times and the Ledger, remove their articles from free access after a period of time (for the Times it is one week, for the Ledger two). This means the link may become broken or may lead you to a pay-for-access page. If you are a 'clipper,' save the interesting stories to your hard drive the day you read them, that way you will always have access to them.
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Blanco memorial service this evening, 6:00 PM, Queen City Academy, corner West 7th & Grant, parking in the rear.
Route 78: "Commuter help online"
PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________
Plainfield Today: "Ray Blanco: His Legacy, Our Opportunity"
Council Vacancy - SL: "Public safety director leads council field"
..... - CN: "Plainfield Dems nominate three to replace Blanco"
FY2007 Budget: "Reality of rising county, city pension costs sets in" -- plus table of Plainfield entities
Route 78: "First 'rough' morning on Rt. 78 rolls smoothly"
South Avenue Condo Proposal [next to last item]: "Zoning board hearing complex variance"
Union County College: "Tuition hikes blamed on soaring enrollments and costs, less aid" -- +5.1% for UCC
Connections? Food For Thought
..... - Fire Dept. Diversity: "Seeking Diverse Fire Dept., City Relaxes Requirements"
..... - Public Pensions: "Public Pension Plans Face Billions in Shortages"
..... - Home Maintenance: "Jersey's strapped homeowners slip into maintenance gap"
..... - 'Transit Village': "Old J&J plant to be leased as developer seeks transit village"
..... - Shared Services: "W. Orange weighs sharing fire services with Orange, Montclair"
Events for this week are here
. x----------------------------------x
. |....PLAINFIELD EVENTS CALENDAR....|
. |..Click HERE to get listing form..|
. x----------------------------------x
Legal Notices: Go here, and click on 'New Search' You can search by County, Newspaper
or keyword [such as 'Plainfield' or 'Sheriff']
TRI-COUNTY AREA___________________________________________________________________________
Bridgewater: "Bridgewater prepares $5 million bond ordinance"
Cranford: "Downtown would be a showcase, living space for artists"
Linden: "Harvesting electricity from an old landfill"
Roselle Park: "Popular librarian resigns after transfer"
Somerville: "Parking fines set to go up in Somerville"
NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________
Surfing: "Magazine's account of woman as first to ride waves on East Coast rattles sport's lovers"
__________________
Property Tax Reform:
..... - SL: "History lesson on tax reform"
__________________
DYFS: "Temporary DYFS workers finally made permanent"
Legislature: "Sen. Wayne Bryant a trustee of bank in line for aid under his program"
NJ National Guard: "Watching for illegal migrants, Guardsmen bored at the border"
Towns:
..... - Teaneck: "Mailman's delivery leads to his arrest"
..... - East Orange: "Discovery Channel airs quest for Upsala artifacts tonight"
Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here
NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________
2006 Elections - WP: "House Incumbents at Risk, Poll Finds"
Alaska Oil Pipeline - SL: "U.S. faces oil pinch after pipe shutdown" -- there is much more to come on this story
DeLay - WP: "GOP Loses Bid to Drop DeLay From Texas Ballot"
Iraq - Editorial, NYT: "A Timetable Isn’t an Exit Strategy"
Middle East - SL: "Providing peacekeepers is a minefield for U.N."
OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________
Beer, Rolling Rock: "Latrobe’s Fizzle Is Newark’s Fizz"
Health: "Study links common hay fever to Parkinson's disease"
Labor Movement: Charles J. Whalen: "Labor has never recovered from the breaking of the PATCO strike"
Real Estate: "Reverse Mortgages: A quick fix?"
Taxes: "How the US super-rich 'dodge' taxes"
Miss Manners: Check out the witty doyenne of conduct here in the Washington Post.
BOOK REVIEW LINKS: NY Times | Wash Post | Ledger | NY Rev Bks | London Rev Bks |
SPORTS LINKS: PHS | Courier | Ledger | NY Times | NY Post | Daily News | El Diario | Hoy |
DISASTERS AND AID OPPORTUNITIES_________________________________________________________
Relief and Aid Contacts:
Red Cross: http://www.redcross.org/
Salvation Army: http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/
Catholic Charities: http://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism: http://www.uscj.org/
Islamic Relief: http://www.irw.org/
Other Area Contacts: "Indonesia Relief Contacts"
PLAINFIELD TODAY: My personal take on Plainfield: news, views, gossip and sightings.
PLAINFIELD EVENTS: The online calendar for Plainfield events, performances, and meetings.
ABBREVIATIONS AND LINKS FOR FREQUENTLY CITED NEWS SOURCES
CN - Courier News | SL - Star-Ledger | NYT - New York Times | WP - Washington Post |
AFP - Agence France Presse | AP - Associated Press | APP - Asbury Park Press | BR - Bergen Record |
CSM - Christian Science Monitor | CP - Courier Post [Cherry Hill] | HNT - Home News [New Brunswick] |
JJ - Jersey Journal [Jersey City] | LAT - Los Angeles Times | ND - Newsday | NOLA - Times-Picayune |
NPR - National Public Radio | PNJ - Politics NJ | TNS - The New Standard | TT - Trenton Times |
(In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. Plainfield Today and Clippings have no affiliation whatsoever with the originator of these articles nor are Plainfield Today or Clippings endorsed or sponsored by the originator.)
Some publications, such as the NY Times and the Ledger, remove their articles from free access after a period of time (for the Times it is one week, for the Ledger two). This means the link may become broken or may lead you to a pay-for-access page. If you are a 'clipper,' save the interesting stories to your hard drive the day you read them, that way you will always have access to them.
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