Opinion

Get out and Vote People of Montclair, if you think this country is headed in the wrong direction and you find the policies and character of the current administration abhorrent there is something you can do about it. On Tuesday, Nov...

Allison Task asks: whose job is it to clean up after the kids?

Stop wasting food Recently there has been considerable publicity about the fact that Americans waste 40 percent of the food grown in our country while over 42 million Americans are food-anxious. We know that in other parts of the world, many people are downright hungry ...

What my mom would say I write this note on behalf of my recently deceased mother Una Delaney, who was a defender of the many iconic parks, buildings and neighborhoods that make Montclair unique, beautiful and a great place to live. A particular favorite of my mom was the Lackawanna train station ...

Return trips to Lackawanna Station for Planning Board The supermarket designer says using train sheds “ would be gorgeous”….it’s time for this developer to finally do something great for Montclair’s downtown. The Planning Board’s recent ...

Don’t blame preservationists for Lackawanna hold up In a town like Montclair that is characterized by its fine old buildings, its long standing neighborhoods and its unique social fabric, its only logical that due attention is given to preserving Montclair for what it is. Don’ ...

Curb military spending and impulsive war I strongly hope that Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker and Congressmen Rodney Frelinghuysen and Donald Payne Jr. will vote to repeal the 2001 Authorization for Military Force that allows the president to declare war alone so that again Congress will be required to approve before the country enters a new war ...

By PAT BERRY For Montclair Local   Pat Berry is a writer, editor and college application essay coach. For more information, visit Pat’s website, collegeapplicationcamp.com, and follow her on Instagram via @college_essay_coach. When my ...

Jean Clark was a visionary To second Gray Russell’s heartfelt devotional to the late Jean Clark (“Town Square: Jean Clark had a vision for earth,” July 6), add to her list of environmental achievements for the community the creation of the Bonsal Preserve. She was the vis ...

by GRAY RUSSELL Special to Montclair Local When Montclair resident Jean Clark was a little girl, her family spent summers at the Adirondack camp owned by her grandfather, C.W. Anderson. There, during the 1930s, she developed a love and an appreciation for the natural world around her ...