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By LINDA MOSS moss@montclairlocal.news As an interim move until the Fourth Ward gets back its supermarket, Brookdale ShopRite will be joining the vendors at the new farmers’ market at Crane Park, the Montclair Center Business Improvement District said this week. The ...

Montclair State University has named Keith Strudler director of its School of Communication and Media, effective Monday. Strudler, founder and director of the Marist College Center for Sports Communication and associate professor of communication, will lead cross-disciplinary communication, television and digital media programs, including production and sound, film-making, journalism, public and o

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news During the July 10 Board of Education meeting, Board President Laura Hertzog responded to criticism that the search for a permanent superintendent had taken three years, saying instead that the search had only been active for six months...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news At least three police officers - two from Clifton and one from Verona - were injured in a series of events that ended with a car crash in Montclair on Thursday, July 20. Alex Kashani, 24, of Clifton, was arrested after he led police on a motor vehicle pursuit through Clifton and Montclair before crashing on Gordonhurst Road...

By LINDA MOSS moss@montclair.news Montclair wants you to curb your trash. The Township Council this week introduced an ordinance that mandates that trash receptacles and bulky waste be placed at the curb, not on the sidewalk. It is an amendment to the current municipal code regarding garbage collection...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news More than 1,500 students in the Montclair Public Schools had unpaid school lunch balances at the end of the 2016-17 school year totaling more than $100,000, according to data collected by the district and obtained by an Open Public Records Act request...

By LINDA MOSS moss@montclairlocal.news Members of the Township Council tasked with studying a redevelopment plan for Lackawanna Plaza are looking to amend it, based in part on recommendations from local planning officials and historic preservationists...

By LINDA MOSS moss@montclairlocal.news Despite protests from residents and members of the Montclair Historic Preservation Commission during a combative four-hour meeting, the Township Planning Board on Monday night approved a revised plan for the expansion of the former Warner Communications building on Lorraine Avenue...

A Montclair man was among 75 people arrested during a narcotics operation in Newark between Monday, July 17 and Sunday, July 23. Sharrod Wilder, 27, of Montclair, was arrested and found in possession of a loaded .32 caliber handgun while wearing a monitoring bracelet in the area of North 12th Street and 6th Avenue, according to a press release from the Newark Department of Public Safety... Read Mo

Montclair police are investigating after a report of shots being fired in the area of Pine Street early Sunday morning. Lt. David O’Dowd said Monday that the police had received a call at 12:22 a.m. Sunday about a possible report of shots fired near the intersection of Glenridge Avenue. He s...