January 22, 1996

This is either an announcement of a meeting or a weather forecast. Only time will tell. Twice state education officials have scheduled a meeting with representatives of 20 Bergen County school districts to discuss desegregating Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood.

He has been "Prime Time" since 1974 he was only 7 then -- and the years before that for Deion Luwynn Sanders seem to fade, memories he would rather keep distant. "Ft. Meyers, Fla., -- that's the crib," Sanders said recently in the room where the Cowboys' secondary meets at the club's offices. "It's good. It's the regular story; grew up in the projects, stayed away from dope and drugs, did my thing and played ball. Do we have to talk about this?

Though it was still early in the night, the temperature was 38 degrees and dropping. The trumpeter's lips were blue and the fiddler could barely bend his fingers. One stumbling patron ordered up a string of songs and then got so drunk he could not be coaxed to pay. The musicians were tempted to roll him and seize their fee. Glumly, they let him go. They had reached the depths of mariachi misery.

As a slogan to use throughout its 75th anniversary year, the largest publisher of children's books in the world has chosen "Scholastic: The Most Trusted Name in Learning." Since the beginning, the Scholastic name has meant trust and profitability. With that has come a rather staid image. But no longer. During the last 18 months, Scholastic Inc. has also made a new name for itself in the razzle-dazzle world of multimedia family entertainment.

Swollen rivers and streams across the New York and mid-Atlantic regions receded yesterday as tens of thousands of evacuated residents returned to flood-ravaged homes and businesses in eight states, and public officials began to assess the costs of the worst flooding in decades. But the danger had not passed everywhere. Some 10,000 residents were still being evacuated yesterday from West Virginia towns along the surging Ohio River. About 1,100 homes on Wheeling Island, at Wheeling, were under six feet of water, their 3,000 occupants still refugees. So were the 700 residents of Port Deposit, Md., in the shadow of an overflowing river dam.