I don’t know about you but I can’t seem to finish all the tomatoes I’ve been buying at the farmer’s market. I’ve made them so many different ways I’m exhausted. […]
August 2004
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Montclair: Speed on Through NOT
Montclair mayor Ed Remsen used the Montclair Watercooler yesterday to announce a series of four public meetings in September on “traffic calming measures” in the township. Remsen named four areas […]
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News from Athens
Our favorite Olympic correspondent, the AP’s Warren Levinson, of Glen Ridge, reports that they just had a small earthquake over in Athens — something you might not otherwise hear about […]
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Grandfather’s Attic, Grandma’s Kitchen
In downtown Bloomfield, right in the heart of the nail salon and dollar shop district, we found a very Montclair-like cafe and home design store run by Guyana-born Nicole Duke. […]
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‘Our Guys’ Lose Appeal
The AP reports tonight that a federal appeals court in Philadelphia has affirmed the convictions of three Glen Ridge athletes involved in sexually assaulting a mentally-handicapped neighbor with a baseball […]
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Um, the Dog Ate My… Lockers?
Parents of students at Glen Ridge High School received word late last week that the brand new lockers will not be ready when school starts. In his letter, principal Kenneth […]
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Sharpen Your Pencils
The McGreevey resignation speech and the Olympics were distracting, but time kept on ticking anyway. If you want to put in a bid to be Montclair’s new image consultant (Montclair: […]
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More Facts We Didn’t Know
Every school child in Glen Ridge knows that Tom Cruise went to Glen Ridge High School, but who knew that Glen Ridge had a Titanic survivor? A story in today’s […]
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Attention, Irony Police
What does it mean when this painting, the very symbol of modern angst, is stolen, at gunpoint, in front of terrified art patrons and museum guards? It happened yesterday at […]
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McGreevey: ‘I Still Have Work to Do’
The governor defends the timing of his resignation — set for Nov. 15 — in an op-ed piece in today’s New York Times.
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Go Ahead, Make Texas a Blue State
Kevin Lee Allen over at Montclair Unmoderated gets credit for finding 270 to Win, an interactive and surprisingly addictive Electoral College map that allows you to color in between the […]
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In Which We Ask: Where is Everybody?
Everybody on your street is gone…somewhere. How do you know for sure the Rapture hasn’t happened? That bastard down the block is missing. No way he’s in heaven.Couldn’t have happened. […]
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Rained Out
Among the things rained out today: the first game of a best-of-three championship series between two Bloomfield teams, the Bloomfield Dodgers and Bloomfield Benito’s Pizzeria. Both teams soared to the […]
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Maybe Stupidity’s Contagious Too
Is fat spread by a virus? Sure, all those potato chip molecules just jumped into our bloodstream and infected us.