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Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Holiday videos... Seniors project... Howard contract extended... Kee honored... Hospital woes...

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PLAINFIELD_________________________________________________________________________________

Plainfield Today: "2006 Holiday decoration videos" -- a small selection from around town.
Plain Talker: Seniors Project: "Magic Packs and Rooftop Gardens"

Schools: "Plainfield keeping Howard as head of schools"
Freeholders: "Andrea Kee of Plainfield Honored"
Plainfield police: "Pedestrian hurt in crash prompts series of rumors"
Hospitals: "State's hospitals face bleak financial future"

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WHAT'S HAPPENING_________________________________________________________________________

  • Saturday: Dec. 30. 1 - 6 PM. Kwanzaa Celebration. Sponsored by the Division of Recreation and Mayor Robinson-Briggs. Washington Community School. FREE.
  • Sunday: Dec. 31. 10 PM. Watch Night Service. First-Park and Shiloh Baptist churches will join together at Shiloh Baptist Church, 515 West 4th Street. FREE.
Events for this week are here

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or keyword [such as 'Plainfield' or 'Sheriff']


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NEW JERSEY________________________________________________________________________________

2006 Review: "Property tax reform among top '06 flameouts"
Demographics: "Union Twp. lures one ethnic group after another"
'First Night' Celebrations: "Half of NJ's First Night celebrations have faded away" -- plus Where they are.
Gambling: "Pennsylvania 'racino' adds urgency to gaming debate"
Initiative Initiative: "GOP wants voters to have a say in spending"
St. Peter's College: "Fall leads to death of college president"

Sheneman's Cartoon is here
Margulies' Cartoon is here



NATION / WORLD____________________________________________________________________________


Editorial Cartoon: Toles, Washington Post

Congress - SL: "Democrats want Big Oil to prime biofuel pump"
Horn of Africa - WP: "Ethiopians Closing In On Capital Of Somalia"
Iraq - WP: "Iraqi Court Upholds Hussein's Sentence"
.......... - NYT: "Iraqi Court Says Hussein Must Die Within 30 Days"
Israel/Palestine - SL: "Israel builds new West Bank settlement"


OF INTEREST________________________________________________________________________________



(With his wife Betty at his side, Ford is sworn in by Chief Justice Warren Burger,
moments after Nixon read his resignation and departed by helicopter. Photo, AP.)

Obituaries: "Gerald Ford, the 'Accidental President'"
.......... - "William Booth, Judge and Civil Rights Leader"
.......... - "For James Brown, a Last Time on the Apollo Stage"

Health: "Heartburn drugs are linked to higher hip-fracture risk"

Miss Manners: Check out the witty doyenne of conduct here in the Washington Post.

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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"

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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 |

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