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Montclair Neighbors Bail Out Struggling Burger Joint, Donate $1,200 In Food To Soup Kitchen Montclair Neighbors Bail Out Struggling Burger Joint, Donate $1,200 In Food To Soup Kitchen
Montclair Neighbors Bail Out Struggling Burger Joint, Donate $1,200 In Food To Soup Kitchen A small group of neighbors in Montclair came together to support a struggling local restaurant while providing donations to a soup kitchen. Like most restaurants, Montclair eatery Stuffed Grass-Fed Burgers is feeling the impact of the COVID-19 crisis. Business has dropped by as much as 70 percent since the outbreak, owner Dan Campeas told NJ.com. Resident Kathleen Carroll worked with others on her Inwood Avenue block to purchase a combined $1,200 worth of the restaurant’s inventory of frozen meat — but not to keep for themselves. Instead, the food was donated to Toni’s Kitchen, a Montclai…

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by Valerie Musson
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Montclair Mourns 'Flemtones' Drummer Orlando Staton Who Died Of Coronavirus, 61 Montclair Mourns 'Flemtones' Drummer Orlando Staton Who Died Of Coronavirus, 61
Montclair Mourns 'Flemtones' Drummer Orlando Staton Who Died Of Coronavirus, 61 "The Fabulous Flemtones" have owned the stage at  at Tierney's Tavern in Montclair every last Friday of the month for the last 34 years. This Friday was entirely different. Not only was the Valley Road pub completely empty over coronavirus fears, but The Flemtones were grieving their beloved drummer Orlando Staton, who died March 20 of coronavirus. A Bloomfield resident and Comcast cable technician, Staton was in the hospital for about a week before he died. The group's bassist Tim Engle remembered Staton as "the most gentle soul." "I had the rare privilege of knowing and playing with a…

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by Cecilia Levine