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By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Wednesday night’s board of education meeting, the last one before school started the next day, was a relatively short one. However, the board took a few minutes to wish the students and their families well as they began the new school year. “...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Some of the teachers and paraprofessionals who thought they were out of work owing to cuts in this year’s budget will be back in school in September. At its Monday, Aug. 21, meeting, the board of education announced that it would be recalling nine teachers and 30 full-time paraprofessionals, as well as some hiring some additional teaching and special educatio

By LINDA MOSS moss@montclairlocal.news Montclair Mayor Robert Jackson has joined nearly 300 mayors across the nation, including 13 others from New Jersey, who are teaming up with the Anti-Defamation League in a pledge to fight racism and extremism in the wake of the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia ...

Following last weekend’s white nationalist protest last weekend which left one counter-protester dead and others injured in Charlottesville, Va., Montclair Local reached out to a number of local leaders - community groups, town government, political organizations and religious groups - for their thoughts: Al Pelham, president of the Montclair branch of the NAACP: It doesn’t surprise me that it hap

By LINDA MOSS and ELIZABETH OGUSS moss@montclairlocal.com oguss@montclairlocal.com Montclair joined communities around the state and the nation on Sunday to mourn those killed at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, holding a peace and solidarity candlelight vigil at Brookdale Park that attracted hundreds of people...