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21 Hot Summer Reads for All Ages
School's out, vacations are planned, and Casual Fridays are in effect for some offices. Still, summer may look a little different for kids and adults these days with less roaming around aimlessly, more scheduled...
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...
Thanks to Restorative Justice Montclair, MHS Students can “Drop-In” for Circles, Serenity, and Green...
Montclair, NJ - Providing comfortable and welcome places for students to discuss, decompress, and explore positive choices for conflict resolution is getting easier at Montclair High School. Montclair’s Restorative Justice program hosted an open...
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...
Recklessly Delicious: Montclair Bread Becomes Rabble Rise Doughnuts
Montclair, NJ - When Rachel Wyman says less is more, she means it. For a baker, that means fewer ingredients, less inventory, keeping big flavors, and finding more time. For the owner of Montclair...
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...
GRDIA: Doing the Work to Welcome and Include All of Glen Ridge
The purpose is in the name. The Glen Ridge Diversity and Inclusion Association (GRDIA) works to uphold a school district and community where all Glen Ridge families feel welcomed, seen, and included in their...
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...