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
Rent control is coming to Montclair May 9: How it’ll work
Montclair Housing Commission chairman William Scott said 60% of Montclair renters would be covered under the new rent stabilization.
$4.2M bond for Montclair municipal building, but there’s no list of projects
The bond ordinance says a list is on file with the clerk. The township says the list doesn't exist.
Lackawanna Plaza will be home to historic train car
It's first being refurbished in Morristown, and will come to Montclair in 2024.
Shop local plant sales to grow a native garden in Montclair
Shop local plant sales to create a native garden.
Montclairians can take a visit to fairy land
At the southern edge of the South Mountain Reservation in Millburn, fairies have taken over the woods, creating a little fairy village.
Pot sales a ‘missed opportunity’ in Montclair?
Marijuana fans flocked to other towns’ dispensaries, but Montclair hasn't yet approved recreational sales at the Ascend dispensary on Bloomfield Avenue.
The no-left from Park St. to Watchung Ave. was premature
Township hasn’t yet approved an ordinance calling for the change
Montclair officials want crossings audited following death of media critic Eric Boehlert
Some say gate closures at North Fullerton crossing confusing.
Montclair couple proposes subdivision on Upper Mountain lot
The owners of 264 Upper Mountain Ave, seek to divide their lot allowing for another home to be built along Highland Avenue where the current property ends.
MC Hotel behind on negotiated tax payments to Montclair
Hotel officials offer no comment