December 2004

They’re closing the Watsessing post office in Bloomfield, the Independent News reports.

Who says Festivus is a fake holiday? Just because it was started on a Seinfeld episode? Pul…leeze. Next thing they’ll be saying Kwanzaa’s a fake holiday. Festivus — which takes […]

All you New York City commuters can take a deep breath. Not only has the rumored Decamp strike been averted, but the New York Waterway’s ferry service to Hoboken lives […]

The NAACP is demanding that Montclair re-start its search for a new town attorney, claiming that that the process was compromised. Planning Board attorney Alan Trembulak, a finalist for the […]

Baristanet fan Chris Jaworski created this holiday greeting (photographed "on location in Bloomfield") specifically for our readers. And you might also get a kick out of this one, vetted by […]

Giving books for the holidays? As we already knew, the folks in Baristaville have a well-honed sense of humor. At both of Montclair’s book emporiums, watchung booksellers and Montclair Book […]

What do you want this Christmas? Why not tell the Barista? Come on, sit on our lap. Now, have you been very, very good this year… Lisa Finan (aka the […]

When the Barista was growing up, people drank water out of their taps. But when the Barista was growing up, there were also no, um, baristas. How times have changed. […]

The Columbia Journalism Review has an editorial praising the late journalist and author Bernie Lefkowitz, author of "Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect […]

When members of Bike Montclair meet tonight in the council chambers at the Montclair municipal building, chances are they’ll be celebrating the draft report on bike safety recommendations for Montclair, […]

Hey, Jewish singles. Don’t want to go Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, or Friday night services at shul, either? Well, there’s no reason to mope. So you don’t have a […]

Ewww! And just in time for the holidays… the dreaded lice letter went home last week to parents at Linden Avenue School in Glen Ridge, after one student was discovered […]

We missed this, but it didn’t get past our eagle-eyed summer intern Jake Adler, a student at Earlham College. A week ago Sunday, on Dec. 12, the New York Times […]