May 2006

Unless you are going to the bike event (and if so, you’ll want to park and ride over), it’s a mess at the intersections of Park and Cooper, Park and […]

Baristanet readers, summer is a great time for outdoor shopping at yard/garage sales. After a trip to the farmer√¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s market, while on a bike ride, or before hunkering down at […]

Bloomfield High√¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s 2006 graduation ceremony is back on schedule at Foley Field, despite the shocking announcement yesterday that the stadium seating was unsafe and could not accommodate the estimated 475 […]

Today at Whole Foods Montclair, just in time for Memorial Day weekend, they’re having a “Grilling Event” 4:30 – 6:30 pm: They√¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ll be passing out lots of free samples and […]

Bicycle mania has bitten Baristaville this week. Sunday’s Tour de Montclair got a good showing of about 600 cyclists, despite drizzly weather. Tonight in Upper Montclair it’s not a ride, […]

From the NJ Transit website: Due to an Amtrak power outage, MidTOWN DIRECT service is operating to Hoboken. PATH and NJT Bus will cross honor NJT Rail tickets/passes. Due to […]

New lot coverage limits that would reduce the allowable size of Mc Mansions built in residential neighborhoods by half were proposed in an ordinance at Montclair’s council meeting Tuesday night. […]

Bloomfield Life reports that the ever-popular Bloomfield Board of Ed has decided to close off the concrete bleachers at Foley Field, due to dangerous conditions in the deteroriating stadium. A […]

We wish Tom Cruise would spend less time knocking antidepressants and more time (well, any time) trying to fix depressing state of the Ridgewood Avenue auditorium where he was discovered […]

We declared the peak of the Presby Iris Gardens yesterday, but we apparently were one day early. The irises peaked today, when they got their close-up in the New York […]

What better a town than the City of Journalists, aka Montclair, to hear journalist Eric Boehlert lash out at his colleagues in the fourth estate for giving George W. a […]

Stop the presses! It’s going to be a nice day. Looking ahead, Weather.com shows things warming up for most of the Memorial Day Weekend, but with possible thunderstorms on Saturday.

The Verona center-hall Colonial at 71 Afterglow Ave. was listed just a few weeks ago at $1.1 million, but went for $1.25 million. Now there’s a catch. A new lawsuit […]

We’re going to call it: over at the Presby Memorial Iris Gardens, it looks like the stately flowers are at their peak! And we’re not alone in thinking that: we […]