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Month In Review 2013

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

St. James Gate Complaint, Cryan's Closes, Woman's Club on Market in Top Month News

Here's the top-read stories in Maplewood during January.

A Bloomfield municipal court judge ruled a complaint accusing a Maplewood bartender of assaulting a patron should move forward.  Chief Municipal Magistrate Judge John A. Paparazzo found probable cause Jan. 24 after hearing testimony from 24-year-old South Orange resident, Ethan Kresofsky, accusing St. James’s Gate Publick House's bartender, James Meade, of assault. Cryan's Beef and Ale House, the popular South Orange bar and restaurant that was a South Orange mainstay for 30 years, announced it had closed its doors effective Jan. 1, according to a recent Twitter posting. The tweet from Cryan’s said in part, "due to the recession and economy we have closed our doors for business" effective Jan. 1, 2013. After more than three years of …

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