May 2006

New traffic signals are being installed at three intersections in Glen Ridge, as part of a state road improvement project. They’re not expected to go live until the end of […]

UPDATE: The viewing and funeral service will be held Monday, June 5th, 2006 at St. Mark√¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s Church, #51 Elm Street, Montclair. Viewing: 10:00 a.m.- 12:00, followed by service. Interment will […]

Can the Democratic Party win control of Congress come November? DNC Chairman Howard Dean thinks so, if they campaign hard in all 435 districts with a unified message. And that’s […]

Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. will host a reception and awards ceremony announcing the winner of the Tenth Annual Congressional Art Contest at 6 p.m. tonight in the new George Segal […]

The bells, whistles and gongs are going off at Baristanet as our own Comment-o-meter, keeping count of all our readers’ comments, just reached 50,000! justeL was the 50,000th person to […]

While most of us were celebrating the beginning of summer this past weekend, new plants at Anderson Park were ripped out and ripped off by vandals. Scott Kevelson, of Friends […]

Maybe it’s time for another name change. Mike M. alerts us to this Christopher Court, located less than nine miles from our own Crisco. Sitiuated a stone’s throw from the […]

Glen Ridge is celebrating a bumper crop of Eagle Scouts. Props to the guys who’ve made it to the pinnacle of scouting. They’ll be honored/inducted this Friday. Alexander Michael Flannery […]

Today, Phil Read catches up with Jersey’s land hunters, including a few in Montclair. From the Star Ledger… They are land hunters, on the prowl. Poring over tax maps to […]

Montclair’s tax assessment poses some taxing questions. A reader writes… I had some questions about the current Montclair tax assessment and called Appraisal Systems Inc. at (201) 493-7300. Spoke to […]

Top two rows: Bloomfield. Bottom two rows: Glen Ridge. For video of baton twirlers in the Bloomfield parade, click here. For Scot Surbeck’s pictures of today’s Memorial Day ceremony in […]

Marion Brown, the 100-year-old Glen Ridge resident who started the Animal League of Bloomfield-Glen Ridge, and rescued countless pets over the years, died this morning at Mountainside Hospital home. She […]

Why we live here, and not in one of those McMansion farms: for a sense of place. This porch is on Washington Ave., Montclair. We’ll be back with those old-fashioned […]