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By LINDA MOSS moss@montclairlocal.news In this case, it was everything and the kitchen sinks, plural. At the former Rascals Comedy Club on Wednesday hundreds of items were auctioned off, including dozens of chairs, high-top tables and bar stools; boxes of dishes and glassware; a number of large tufted black leather couches; shimmery gold crocodile-print banquettes; a podium; a 10-burner stove with

BY LINDA MOSS moss@montclairlocal.news A dog that bit a man outside Raymond’s restaurant has completed a 10-day quarantine and showed no signs of rabies, Township Communications Director Katya Wowk said Wednesday. The dog, which officials said was a Labrador-retriever mix — not a pit bull, as the police report of the incident originally described it — under state law had to be quarantined after th

By LINDA MOSS moss@montclairlocal.news In a lightning-quick meeting on Tuesday night, the Township Council approved more than $2.37 million in spending on nearly a half-dozen projects, including $350,000 to make repairs and improvements to the municipal parking decks and lots as well as $256,000 to reconstruct the Rand Park tennis courts...

By LINDA MOSS moss@montclairlocal.news Montclair Mayor Robert Jackson has joined nearly 300 mayors across the nation, including 13 others from New Jersey, who are teaming up with the Anti-Defamation League in a pledge to fight racism and extremism in the wake of the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia ...

By LINDA MOSS moss@montclairlocal.news A real estate firm last week lost its bid to lease roughly half the first floor of the renovated Warner Communications building, but it will be coming back to the Township Zoning Board of Adjustment with a compromise in an attempt to get at least some storefront space at the site ...

By LINDA MOSS moss@montclairlocal.news Residents who live near Redeemer Church of Montclair have gathered roughly 30 signatures on a petition opposing the house of worship’s plan to build a two-story addition. At least one of those people, Dana Morgan, was at the Township Zoning Board of Adjustment’s meeting on Wednesday to voice his concerns about Redeemer Church’s proposal. But the board po ...

By LINDA MOSS moss@montclairlocal.news The woman whose pit bull bit a man outside Raymond’s restaurant last weekend told patrons at the eatery that her canine had never acted that way before, according to a police report on the incident. T...

By LINDA MOSS moss@montclairlocal.news So far one of them has a job at a popular local restaurant, but the clock is ticking for two Syrian immigrants who arrived in Montclair in June to find permanent housing. Alsayed Abbas, 30, and Abd Al Rahman Ajlooni, 35, were brought to the United States under the auspices of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Newark and St ...

By LINDA MOSS moss@montclairlocal.news A man was bitten by a pit bull outside of Raymond’s restaurant on Church Street last weekend, with the victim requiring rabies shots after the canine’s owner fled the scene with her pet. The 50-...

By LINDA MOSS moss@montclairlocal.news Montclair developer Steven Plofker won township approval Monday night to transform the site of the former Diva Lounge into a combination retail and multi-family development, adding a six-story building at the rear of the property for apartments...