Letters to the Editor

Turtle Back Zoo a waste of taxpayer money This is about the Turtle Back Zoo, the waste of taxpayer money, the ongoing destruction of South Mountain Reservation and bad education. The Essex County Executive, Joe DiVincenzo, intends to build an amphitheater in the zoo...

Attacks on social media hurt school district Your excellent Jan. 30 report on Montclair's achievement gap (“Inside the Gap,” page 1) laments the high turnover in leadership in the school district and its impact on sustaining a program to close the opportunity gap. You need t...

Questions arise with MKA field upgrade  Montclair’s educational institutions are key contributors to the values and attraction of our town - and we all benefit from good relations between local institutions and neighborhood residents. But in th...

Letters to the editor: Jan. 23, 2020

Letters to editor: Jan. 16, 2020

Harris should step down as Montclair NAACP officer Editor’s note: The following letter was sent from Montclair NAACP executive committee member Cary Chevat to president Al Pelham and committee members on Sunday, Jan. 5. As the only member of the Jewish community on the NAACP executive committee, I am outraged at the anti-Semitic comments by James Harris as it was an attack on my faith. What... Rea

Parking problems plague Montclair downtown I was terribly saddened to learn that Craig Brady Fine Jewelers was closing, though, not saddened enough to want to shop downtown. We had purchased a lot of jewelry from him before he moved to Bloomfield Avenue...

Driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants There is a proposal in the New Jersey State Legislature (S3229) that would allow an additional 719,000 New Jersey residents to qualify for a driver’s license. This would benefit not only undocumented immigrants but those earning less than $25,000 a year as well as those reentering society from the criminal justice system.  Curren...

Councilman ‘gratified’ to aid environment with bag ban Montclair has long been in the vanguard of pursuing progressive solutions at the local level. By instituting a ban on plastic bags, we are taking a meaningful first step towards environmental justice, and doing our part to protect the health of our planet for future generations. I am proud...

MHS lockdown should be a wake-up call Last week’s lockdown at Montclair High School and Renaissance Middle School was a real wake-up call. The district was lucky. No one was physically injured in the incident, and no gun was found...thi...