Letters to the Editor

Plastic use Reduce, Reuse, Recycle has been drilled into my brain from my first days of Kindergarten to my senior year of high school. Yes, recycling is important, but it is not the best and only option. Recycling plastic in New Jersey is a difficult task...

Thank you, Million Man: Montclair As Henry David Thoreau said in a letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, in 1843, “Every blade in the field, every leaf in the forest lays down its life in its season, as beautifully as it was taken up.” Thanksgiving was that kind of wake up day filled with the surprise of a golden sunshine as I drove into my parking lot to find but one parking spot left at 10 a.m. I wonde

Finding angels in Thursday’s snowmageddon I just wanted to drop a quick line and let you know that Montclair's firefighters are superheroes. When the snow hit hard just as the grade schools were letting out, they took it upon themselves to help push cars, including mine, uphill (at the corner of Cedar and Harrison avenues). ...

Montclair Republicans should speak up This is a reply to John Van Wagner’s letter from the Oct. 25 Montclair Local. Mr. Van Wagner complains about Montclair Democrats’ hypocrisy for their claims of “inclusiveness and diversity” with regard to our Republican neighbors in town. This lack is the reaso...

A Halloween thanks to Montclair, Montclair Ave. The scene on our street, Montclair Avenue, on Halloween from 4 to 8:30 p.m. was special and joyful. There was a spirit afloat that came from the revelers, their parents in costume, the little ones, less than one year old, in adorable outfits...

Inept developer hindering supermarket I’ve lived in Montclair for less than half of the four-year battle to develop a supermarket, but long enough to be appalled by what I’ve learned. The owner purchased a property listed on federal, state and local registers as historic, yet neither the owner nor the developer had any experience repurposing a historic property, or building a supermarket. They hav

For the Silent Minority On a recent Saturday afternoon on one of Montclair’s tidy side streets, two men in red T-shirts and caps strode up the sidewalk, stopping in front of an immaculate red brick colonial. Pausing to consult their phones, they advanced up the walk and rang the bell twice. A fu...

On plastic bags I saw your recent coverage on Montclair’s plastic bag use and wanted to share two new studies with results that may surprise you: two governments — Quebec and Denmark — recently completed life cycle assessment research of all grocery bags and found that the common plastic grocery bag has the least environmental impact. For example, the...

Deer sterilization can be effective I am a professor at San Jose State doing research on urban deer management and am providing you with some links to information I have gathered. Effectiveness and costs for non-lethal methods: deerfriendly...

Hugin or Menendez? We have an election on Tuesday, Nov. 6. Senator Bob Menendez’s opponent, the Republican Bob Hugin claims to be a different kind of Republican. However, Hugin was the campaign finance chair for Donald Trump in New Jersey and a Trump delegate to the Republican convention. He d...