Public Safety

By ERIN ROLL and LINDA MOSS> roll@montclairlocal.news moss@montclairlcoal.news This week still-stunned friends, family and colleagues continued to mourn and memorialize Mary DeFilippis, the Montclair State University faculty member who was struck and killed by a vehicle on Grove Street last week. M ...

Montclair is rolling out a plan to make the township's streets safer and more user-friendly, with possibilities of infrastructure upgrades on high-traffic streets and increased education and enforcement. The township has released a draft plan of the township’s SAFE (Streets Are For Everyone) Complete Streets Implementation project, the goal of which is to make Montclair’s streets safer for pedestr

BY ERIN ROLL and LINDA MOSS roll@montclairlocal.news moss@montclairlocal.news The township has asked PSE&G to upgrade the lighting at the intersection where a Montclair State University faculty member was struck by a vehicle and sustained fatal injuries, according to the utility. “ ...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news A Montclair State University faculty member was killed in a motor vehicle accident on Grove Street Wednesday night, according to a statement released by the university. Mary DeFilippis, 73, was the academic adviser for the MBA program at the Feliciano School of Business...

By LINDA MOSS moss@montlcairlocal.news The Township Council last week introduced an ordinance that bans parking at the dead-end of Mount Vernon Road, a measure taken after residents complained that dog-walkers were illegally parking on their street to get quick access to the canine facility at Brookdale Park ...

Essex County and six of its municipalities, including Montclair, are teaming up with the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority to try to reduce the number of accidents involving pedestrians on bustling Bloomfield Avenue. The joint initiative, called the Street Smart NJ pedestrian safety education campaign, was unveiled last week at a press conference at the Bloomfield Town Hall ... Read M

The Township Council on Tuesday night swore in nine chaplains, representing various faiths, as part of a new Montclair Police Department program. The police chaplains, clergymen and -women, represent houses of worship throughout Montclair...

Police are investigating after at least two Valley Road businesses found their windows smashed last weekend. According to the Montclair Police Department, the front windows at Ashtanga Yoga and the Sunshine Sam toy store were found smashed on April 22 ...

No one was injured in an early-morning fire on Montague Place on Thursday. The Montclair Fire Department received a call about the fire at 1:42 a.m., according to a notice released by the department. Units arrived  to find heavy fire coming out from beneath the roof on the left side of the house, and the fire was brought under control within an hour. The...

Police are investigating a robbery that occurred at a Montclair convenience store on Wednesday. According to a statement from the Montclair Police Department, a man entered the Grove Convenience Store, 133 Grove St., just after noon, leaned over the counter and took cash out of the cash register ...