July 2004

All the kids on the bus were safe, but SUV it collided with yesterday didn’t fare so well. The 31-year-old pregnant woman from Butler, who was driving the SUV, was […]

A downtown in transition. Top: The replacement for the Midtown Diner, under construction. Bottom left: A Grabowsky sign covering the stage door of former tenant 12 Miles West. Bottom right: […]

… for Sunday nights. No Sopranos until 2006.

You know, we’ve gotten used to a world in which children need “playdates” in order to get together. We’ve caved and let our adolescents have cell phones. We’ve seen neighborhood […]

Sixteen foreign exchange students staying in the Glen Ridge area said “adios” to their host families tonight at a farewell party at the Town Pub in Bloomfield. Most of the […]

Do you think they’re trying to tell us something?

Since New Jersey’s new Domestic Partnership went into effect July 10 — allowing same-sex couples to register for some of the legal privileges and protections of marriage — 21 couples […]

Montclair State University decided last week to roll back a planned 11-percent tuition hike to 8 percent. In June, state legislators set an 8 percent cap on the amount state […]

The Montclair theater company known as 12 Miles West moved closer last week to taking possession of a new stage in Bloomfield. Although we had the story June 16, when […]

She sure doesn’t look like a Democrat, but this eBay vendor seems to think so. It’s a Democratic Conventional Kerry National Barbie Doll Dress (click for a close-up), and the […]

A Yogi Berra autograph went for $40 in Cooperstown yesterday, during events leading up to the induction of Paul Molitor and Dennis Eckersley into Baseball’s Hall of Fame. Our guess, […]

Yesterday, we wrote about some anti-Remsen materials that were removed from the Hahnes building by the Montclair police. Chief Sabagh wouldn’t tell us what the posters said — due to […]

The Glen Ridge Voice reported this week that Glen Ridge will receive a $50,000 homeland security grant from the State of New Jersey. Glen Ridge, as everyone knows, is a […]

Two Montclair writers flog new novels. See our book page.