April 2008

A second bomb threat — this time on Freeman Hall, a dorm — disrupted the routine of Montclair State students today. The dorm has been searched and reopened, but students […]

It’s coming up on Mother’s Day, and Baristaville has three local authors pushing new books to help mothers, and women in general, improve their life game. From Julia Roberts, there’s […]

Today is Yom HaShoa, the annual memorial for the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust. The Montclair Clergy Association Community holds its annual Yom HaShoa Observance tonight (April […]

UPDATE: The student center has just reopened. 2:34 pm. We’re receiving tips on a evacuation at MSU as a result of a bomb threat. Students received this email alert… “MSU: […]

Baristanet is again making news in the media world. This time, it’s our partnership with the Star Ledger (yes, the Star Ledger!) to create a print guide to Montclair. Last […]

The infamous Wet girl, whose presence on a Bloomfield billboard beckoning “gentlemen” to a go-go joint in Belleville inspired vandalism, is back. The torn billboard has been taped back up, […]

All the different Montclair slates got you dizzy? Don’t know the difference between Unity and Partnership Montclair? Tonight’s your night to hear the three mayoral candidates and their running mates […]

The thorny politics of parking in Montclair just got more prickly…Montclair Police Department’s new procedures for overnight parking approval appeared on the township’s website this week. No more spontaneous sleep-overs […]

Did you know there‚Äôs a day for honoring newspaper carriers? It’s September 4. There’s also Cartoonists’ Day (May 3), Doctors’ Day (March 30) AND Hairstylists’ Appreciation Day (April 30). So […]

If you’re a parent living in today’s over-programmed, competitive culture of kids’ sports, you’ve probably wondered — is it all too much? How much should we push our kids to […]

If you had trouble logging onto Baristanet this morning, you weren’t alone. Our site was intermittently inaccessible due to SYN flood. The partial outage went from about 7:40 am to […]

We usually receive mug shot renderings of murderers and rapists, but the picture at left is a first for the state of New Jersey. Sent to Baristanet by Paterson’s Chief […]

For a couple of years now, our all-time favorite web-surfing tool has been stumbleupon.com. Whatever your interests on the web, stumblers can help expand your “Favorites” list. Every day millions […]

File under “What Was He Thinking?” 20-year-old Lawrence D. Murphy from Montclair took desperate measures to score some weed last weekend in State College, PA, resulting in a beating and […]