Jaimie is an award-winning journalist and editor having been employed at New York regional area weeklies, dailies, magazines and digital news sites including The Ridgewood News, Community News, South Bergenite, The Record, NorthJersey.com, Our Meadowlands Magazine and Montclair Local. She has 20-plus years experience cultivating stories that affect readers, as well as bring about policy and social change. She strives to get the more compelling and humanistic side of a story, and feels a strong responsibility to readers to deliver only the highest of journalistic standards. Those stories have garnered over 85 New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists and New Jersey Press Association awards and include her coverage of Lackawanna redevelopment, rent control and Montclair Government. She can be reached at winters@montclairlocal.news and 551-486-7479.
Jaimie Julia Winters
MC Hotel pays delinquent PILOTs; expected to pay affordable housing funds as well
The MC Hotel has paid its delinquent payment in lieu of taxes and will pay its affordable housing obligation, officials said.
Montclair’s first rent control board is formed; landlords have till July 8 to register
The Montclair Township Council has appointed its first members to the rent control board.
Residents launch petition to halt Essex Park renovations in Montclair
Not everyone is happy with plans to upgrade Essex Park and playground in Montclair’s Fourth Ward.
Person threw kitten out of moving car, Montclair Animal Control says
Police are looking for help in identifying the occupants of a vehicle that threw a kitten out of the car’s window while driving down Glenridge Avenue Friday afternoon.
Midtown Deck opening delayed after failed inspection
After breaking ground in January 2021 — and then the promise of an opening in February of this year to provide much-needed parking relief — the now-built Midtown garage on Glenridge Avenue remains closed.
Ascend Montclair closer to recreational pot sales, waiting on township OK
Ascend of Montclair has received Planning Board approval to begin recreational marijuana sales — expanding beyond the dispensary’s current medical only-business — but it still has some hurdles to clear before those sales can begin.
Law’s goal: More diversity among Montclair Township’s vendors
Law encourages contracts with businesses owned by female, minority, veterans, LGBTQ, disabled individuals
Timetable for recreational pot sales in Montclair an open question
Ascend still needs multiple approvals before it can legally move ahead with recreational marijuana sales, township officials say — which leaves open the question of when such sales could come to Montclair.
Upgrades underway at Nishuane, Essex, Edgemont parks in Montclair
Three Montclair parks are getting $1.75 million in upgrades this summer.
Montclair: Ascend’s recreational pot sales were ‘illegal’
Dispensary had accused township of 'dragging its feet' on an application process.