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• IN THE FIELD: A parting note 

  by markspivey on Jun 29th | Email

  (Editor's note: "In the Field" was Courier News Plainfield beat reporter and Plainfield InJersey editor Mark Spivey's online column. It made semi-regular appearances on the Plainfield InJersey microsite until publishing of all InJersey microsites was officially suspended on June 29).

  By MARK SPIVEY STAFF WRITER

  PLAINFIELD - Plainfield might have the single best blogging community [...]

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    Rebecca Williams 4:50 pm on June 29, 2011 Permalink | Reply

    No more microsite???

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    Pat 7:17 pm on June 29, 2011 Permalink | Reply

    Mark: as the Brits say “bloody hell,” what a shame, nay, a crime. The Courier is glad to take our money for obits. I guess that’s what management thinks of us – dead meat. Get out of there. Bernice did. I did.

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• InJersey, Signing Out 

  by Ted Mann on Jun 29th | Email

  In journalism, one of the hardest things to do is hit "publish" (or "send") on a story that's still unfolding. Deadlines often force your hand, but it's frustrating to know that your account isn't finished, that there are still facts and details and color "TK" -- "to come."

  That is very much the sentiment [...]

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    laura 7:30 am on June 30, 2011 Permalink | Reply

    So sad

• Plainfield High School Hall of Fame holds induction 

  by markspivey on Jun 28th | Email

  

  The Plainfield High School Alumni Association held its sixth Annual Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on Saturday, June 25, with more than 150 alumni, staff, family and friends gathering at Giovanna’s Restaurant on South Avenue in Plainfield.

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• Plainfield calls community forum for Thursday 

  by markspivey on Jun 28th | Email

  

  Mayor Sharon Robinson-Briggs has announced a community forum slated to be held 6:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday, June 30 at Washington Community School, 427 Darrow Ave. in Plainfield.

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• Plainfield police announce arrest in car burglary caught on video 

  by markspivey on Jun 27th | Email

  

  By MARK SPIVEY STAFF WRITER

  PLAINFIELD - A man captured on a resident’s surveillance camera breaking into a car to steal a GPS unit last week has confessed to the crime after being arrested on an apparently unrelated drug charge, authorities said.

  Jose J. Rosario, 32, of East Front Street is facing drug and burglary [...]

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• June 27 Plainfield Police Blotter 

  by markspivey on Jun 27th | Email

  

  STAFF REPORT

  POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED DANGEROUS SUBSTANCE, 6:23 p.m. Thursday. Jibreel Elisha Elliott, 19, of Plainfield was arrested and charged with nine offenses as the result of a narcotics investigation being conducted on the 500 block of West Second Street, police said.

  Elliott was charged with six drug offenses, plus defiant trespassing, hindering apprehension [...]

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• New York woman charged with trying to duck $123 cab fare from NYC to Plainfield 

  by markspivey on Jun 24th | Email

  

  A big bill and a bottle of beer added up to a rough morning for a woman accused of taking a taxi from midtown Manhattan to Plainfield’s West End, then trying to skip out on a $123 fare, police said.

  Julisa Gonzalez, 19, of Schenectady, N.Y., is charged with theft of services and being a minor in possession of alcohol, according to police. Bail for Gonzalez was set at $1,500.

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• Plainfield police probing rash of car burglaries 

  by markspivey on Jun 24th | Email

  

  It was around noon on Wednesday when Jeff Morgan noticed a suspicious sight on a monitor showing live feeds from the network of security cameras he has set up at his Leland Avenue home.

  A man on a bicycle rode up to his Audi sedan parked in the driveway, peered inside and started using a foreign object to strike the vehicle’s window. Unsuccessful in breaking it, the man then mounted his bicycle and left.

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• Fire closes Plainfield BOE offices 

  by markspivey on Jun 24th | Email

  

  By MARK SPIVEY STAFF WRITER

  PLAINFIELD - The Plainfield Board of Education’s administrative offices were closed this morning due to a Thursday night fire in the building’s basement, Fire Chief Frank Tidwell said.

  Firefighters responding to an alarm that was broadcast at 9:49 p.m. Thursday arrived to the offices at 1200 Myrtle Ave. to find that a [...]

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    Ivy 2:08 pm on June 24, 2011 Permalink | Reply

    A lot of computers were damaged…the A/C unit was in the lab.

• Plainfield woman charged in narcotics sting 

  by markspivey on Jun 23rd | Email

  

  By MARK SPIVEY STAFF WRITER

  PLAINFIELD - A Plainfield woman is facing multiple drug charges after selling 20 bags of heroin to an undercover Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office detective this week, authorities said.

  Kimberly Brightwell, 47, of West Fourth Street in Plainfield was charged with a pair of third-degree drug offenses, lodged [...]

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• Plainfield defendants plead guilty in federal heroin case 

  by markspivey on Jun 23rd | Email

  

  Three local members or associates of the powerful G-Shine gang set are awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to selling thousands of dollars in crack cocaine to an undercover FBI informant last year, state and federal officials announced Wednesday.

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• Plainfield BOE places interims in three key roles as Barksdale resigns from board 

  by markspivey on Jun 23rd | Email

  

  The city’s Board of Education will head into the 2011-12 school year down one board member and with three key administrators working in interim or acting capacities, officials said Wednesday.

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• Rotary Awards Scholarships 

  by Michael R. Townley on Jun 23rd | Email

  

  The Rotary Club of Plainfield-North Plainfield recently awarded $22,200 in scholarships to graduating seniors from Plainfield High School and North Plainfield High School.

  The local Rotary Club sponsors its own F.S. Mathewson Scholarship, awarding a total of $7,200 to students in the two high schools in its service area.  “Seven scholarships were awarded in memory [...]

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• June 23 Plainfield Police Blotter 

  by markspivey on Jun 23rd | Email

  

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  POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED DANGEROUS SUBSTANCE, 10:28 a.m. Monday. Jesse Jackson of Newark was arrested and charged with receiving stolen property and possession of narcotics after an officer spotted him driving a stolen black 2005 Chevrolet Trailblazer that had been involved in a police chase earlier in the day, authorities said.

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• Plainfield hopeful for benefits from new Union County EMS service 

  by markspivey on Jun 22nd | Email

  

  Despite what was described as an "overwhelming" cry for help in improving emergency medical service coverage, those involved with the launch of one of New Jersey's first county-sponsored EMS squads still weren't quite sure what to expect until the switchboard started lighting up on June 1.

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