March 2005

It turns that high-noon showdown between Bloomfield health sheriff Weigle and Bloomfield schools deputy Dowd took place today — not yesterday, as we’d reported. Not only did these two meet, […]

Next week, terrorists will unleash the pneumonic plague in Union County … and victims will rush to Mountainside Hospital for treatment. Well, not real terrorists or the real pneumonic plague […]

Moving right along … Just about any story that follows the news of Terri Schiavo’s death is going to seem petty and absurd. So we’ll just prance right in with […]

Terry Schiavo’s dead. Her death comes just 13 days after her feeding tube was removed and shortly after the Supreme Court refused to hear her parents’ appeal for the third […]

New Jersey residents have the third-longest commutes in the country, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau study. Only residents in New York and Maryland have it worse.

When the weather gets nice, the snappers start snapping. C.J. Griffin and Scot Surbeck were both been inspired by the good weather, but they’re seeing two entirely different worlds.

…of the stems and seeds in our breakfast cereal. Just purchased at (where else?) Whole Foods, Hemp Plus contains real hemp seeds which, the product literature says, contain "a wide […]

We hear there’s a showdown going on right now at Bloomfield High School. According to local cowpokes, Bloomfield health sheriff Trevor Weigle showed up uninvited to Bloomfield’s Board of Ed […]

How many guys do you know who have a salad named after them? In Beirut, no less? Well maybe not ordinary mortals. But if you happen to be going to […]

The Community Theatre in Morristown is running a special internet offer from now until Thursday at 5pm, selling $10 tickets to the following shows: International Sejong Soloists with Lynn Harrell: […]

Overheard on the Watercooler: "The limiting factor is how many 5 and 6 year olds, armed with baseball bats, can fit safely on the Hillside School and Henningberg fields. We […]

To all our readers trapped inside windowless offices, here’s news from Scot Surbeck. Something’s casting shadows out there. We think it’s … the sun.

Blockbuster has agreed to pay $630,000 in a nationwide settlement of its misleading "No Late Fees" campaign — but the settlement doesn’t apply to New Jersey. According to wire stories, […]