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Ife Joseph, a 10-year-old rising fifth-grader at Hillside School, has invented an app titled "Mental Health for Social Justice," for the MIT Inventor Hackathon.

Chef Floyd Cardoz, who died on March 24 of coronavirus, made a big impact on the town; he prepared broccoli at Hillside School, "just so," in 2015.

More than 230 'swappers' swarmed the Hillside School for the Winter Community Swap on Saturday, by the time doorman Johnson Tyler's stopped counting about 9:24, after the line was swallowed up into the building. Tyler's the husband of the event founder and organizer Jane Marcus, wrangling a team of 25 volunteers helping to recycle the gently used goods. Sin...

BY ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Hillside School's Drums of Thunder will appear on NBC's The Today Show tomorrow, July 4. The corps' appearance will include band director Louis D'Amico giving a drum lesson to the show's hosts and some of the guests...

On Sunday, June 9, Van Vleck House & Gardens and Inserra Chair of MSU hosted a program highlighting Italian architecture in Montclair.

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Drums of Thunder started out 35 years ago as a small drum corps affiliated with Hillside’s performing arts program. Since then, they have been a routine sight at Montclair events, and at big-ticket shows like college football games, NBA and NFL games. B...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Cheryl Hopper is resigning as Glenfield Middle School's principal at the end of the school year. Hopper announced her resignation in a letter sent to the Glenfield school community on Wednesday, June 5, saying that she was leaving at the end of the school year in order to concentrate on her Ph...

On Saturday, May 18, a dedication ceremony took place at Charles H. Bullock School commemorating the Washington Street Y, which was located on the site where the school now sits. For many years, the Y was a central institution for Montclair's African-American community...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Gender pronouns, the concept of gender fluidity and the need for inclusive spaces. Those were some of the topics covered at a special talk, held Monday night at Hillside School, for parents on how to discuss gender identity issues with their children...

Starting this year, students in kindergarten through fifth grade are required to get a daily recess, after Gov. Phil Murphy signed the recess bill into law on Aug. 10.