Baristanet Profile: Cleyvis Natera
Name: Cleyvis Natera
Where do you live? Upper Montclair, near Applegate’s Ice Cream Shop
When did you move there? December 2012
Where did you grow up? I was born in the Dominican Republic, migrated to NYC when I was ten...
Baristanet Profile: Elizabeth Méndez Berry
Name: Elizabeth Méndez Berry
Where do you live? Montclair, NJ
When did you move there? Four years ago
Where did you grow up? In exotic Toronto, Canada
How do you make...
Friendship Secrets, Family Drama, and More in Alice Elliott Dark’s FELLOWSHIP POINT
Montclair author Alice Elliott Dark’s epic new novel, FELLOWSHIP POINT, follows a pair of friends through a lifetime of joys, tragedies, and accomplishments as they work to uphold the values they hold dear and...
Baristanet Profile: Sharyn Kreitzer
Name: Sharyn Kreitzer
Where do you live? Montclair, NJ, near Watchung Plaza
When did you move there? 2014
Where did you grow up? Westfield, NJ
How do you make a living? OR What is your everyday passion? After 25 years...
Baristanet Profile: Miranda Ferriss Jones
Name: Miranda Ferriss Jones
Where do you live? Montclair!
When did you move there? 2017 we moved from San Francisco where we’d been living for ten years.
Where did you grow up? A teeny rural town: Monkton, Vermont
How do you...
Baristanet Profile: Marcie Wallace
Name: Marcie Wallace. Fun fact: my yoga name is amba
Where do you live? Verona
When did you move there? Before my husband I were married, 31 years ago
How do you make a living? I am a...
Baristanet Profile: Amanda O’Brien Milleisen
Name: Amanda O'Brien Milleisen
Where do you live? I live Montclair, right by Edgemont Park, with my husband of 16 years, our 14-year-old twins, 9-year-old son, 1 1/2-year-old standard poodle, and 9-year-old selectively loving cat.
When did...
Baristanet Profile: Keri Setaro
Name: Keri Setaro
Where do you live? NOFU (I can’t believe that’s a thing!), Upper Montclair
When did you move there? October 2020
Where did you grow up? Margate, NJ
How do you make a living? OR What is...
Baristanet Profile: Jen Sypeck
Name: Jen Sypeck
Where do you live? Upper Montclair
When did you move there? July 2019
Where did you grow up? Eagleville, Pennsylvania
How do you make a living? OR What is your everyday passion? My career is in the creative space...
Baristanet Profile: Greg Pason
Name: Greg Pason
Where do you live? Pine Street, Montclair
When did you move there? We moved to Montclair in 2009 and lived on Chestnut St for 12 years. We moved to Pine Street last summer.
Where did you...
Baristanet Profile: Aminah Toler
Name: Aminah Toler
Where do you live? 4th Ward, Montclair, NJ
When did you move there? We moved to Montclair in 1981.
Where did you grow up? I grew up in the Frog Hollow section of town. #HollowLove
How do you...
Baristanet Profile: Zane Keyes
Name: Zane
Where do you live? Montclair, NJ, emphasis on hometown. I’m a Black small business owner who went to school here.
When did you move there? At 10 years old
Where did you grow up? South End border...
Baristanet Profile: Danielle Zinn
Name: Danielle Zinn
Where do you live? Montclair, New Jersey.
When did you move there? Spring of 2004.
Where did you grow up? Mostly in Sussex County, NJ but I spent my younger years in CO and IL.
How...
Anxiety in the Spotlight: Bloomfield Baker Competes on Food Network
Bloomfield, NJ - Parenting young children is never easy. Running a small business with your spouse is also a challenge. But Bloomfield’s Jaleesa Al-Kassem, co-owner of Mo & Jay Pastry in Little Falls, has...