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by Andrew Garda garda@montclairlocal.news Vincent Bezecourt’s 27th-minute goal helped New York Red Bulls II edge Toronto, 1-0, Friday night at the MSU Soccer Park. With the win, NYRB II (7-10-3, 24 points) pushed themselves back into the eighth and final playoff spot in the USL’s Eastern Conference. New Yor...

by Andrew Garda garda@montclairlocal.news ​The New Jersey Jackals enterered Sunday’s game with a 36-25 record looking to avoid a sweep from the 29-31 Ottawa Champions. Their meeting was the final game before the CanAm League All Star which was held in Ottawa on Tuesday, July 24th. Steve B...

by Andrew Garda garda@montclairlocal.news With interim Montclair High School Athletic Director Mike Miello in place officially since the end of June, the Montclair Board of Education has already placed a request for applicants to fill the permanent position...

by Andrew Garda garda@montclairlocal.news Football season is about to descend upon Montclair once again, but it’s not just about what happens at the high school level. Montclair is a town with two youth football programs for kids to choose from, with strong connections to each other in the past. T...

by Andrew Garda garda@montclairlocal.news Pittser Field—The New York Red Bulls II (6-10-3) already had their work cut out for them when they welcomed the Charlotte Independence (9-3-4) to Montclair State. The Independence are red hot, having won their last five games in a row, including a win that contained the club’s first ever hat trick, scored by Jorge Herrera in a win over Saint Louis FC. Add

by Andrew Garda garda@montclairlocal.news With just over two weeks left before the start of training camp, the Montclair High School Mounties football team continues to work on getting the little things right. Blocking technique, timing routes, coverages — even though the pads aren’t on and the summer is still in full swing, the players are running their drills as if they were preparing to meet P

by Andrew Garda garda@montclairlocal.news Life comes at you fast. If nothing else, that’s what Mike Goldstein — better known to WFAN and Mike Francesa listeners as “Mike from Montclair” — learned last week when he blasted Gov. Chris Christie as Christie w...

by Andrew Garda garda@montclairlocal.news The Montclair Mounties and Montclair Kimberley Academy summer baseball teams met Monday afternoon in High School Development League play, something scheduling didn’t allow for during the regular season. W...

by Andrew Garda garda@montclairlocal.news The New Jersey Jackals (30-20) dropped a rain-soaked game to the Ottawa Champions (20-29) Friday night, 11-3. The teams actually only played eight innings Friday night, wrapping up at midnight due to a league rule preventing the beginning of a new inning after the clock strikes 12...

By Andrew Garda garda@montclairlocal.news If Gov. Chris Christie wanted ratings for his on-air audition to replace WFAN’s Mike Francesa, insulting callers from Montclair might have done the trick. That’s exactly how things went down on Monday afternoon when several callers from the town ripped into the outgoing politician and it’s certainly provoked reaction from the town. Most notable ... Read M