Opinion

Montclair is unsustainable, overdeveloped and not progressive I went to a meeting where some people were singing praises of Montclair. Which Montclair? Do you recognize Montclair? You mean Upper Montclair, where you can't build 11 units, or Montclair, where you can build tall buildings, dump 46 units on a gas station next to a hotel, and 90 more illegal units on a parking lot...

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...

A demonstration garden is the new kid in town at Crane Park: with a pollinator and bird garden integrating edible plants.

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...