Hillside School

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.

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Friday, Aug. 17, is a harvest day at the Montclair Community Farms’ main garden on Orange Road. A group of young volunteers from the Urban Farm Youth Program, a division of Rutgers’ 4-H program, weighs baskets of tomatoes, cucumbers and green beans at a table in the center of the garden. The commun...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Police are investigating two pedestrian accidents involving children over the past week, both near schools. A four-year-old boy sustained minor injuries after being grazed by a car near Nishuane on Friday, May 4, while a 12-year-old girl was grazed by a car near Hillside on Tuesday, May 8...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Imagine being a student going into the classroom. But instead of only rows of identical desks, there may be a high desk that you can stand at, with a special hinged bar that you can push back and forth with your foot...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Montclair is continuing to investigate an incident in which a section of conjoined lockers fell on a Hillside student. The student had to be taken to the hospital following the Sept. 16 incident, which prompted a districtwide locker inspection...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Ten-year-old Claudette Johnson is a Hillside student. She’s on the school’s swim team, enjoys gymnastics and plays the piano. She is also coping with scleroderma. Claudette and her family — mom Christine Loccke, dad Tom Johnson and siblings Mirabelle, Spencer and Cora — are going to be lacing up their walking shoes for “Stepping Out to Cure Scleroderma:” a wal

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Look around the walls of the first-floor hallway of Hillside Elementary School, and you’ll find photo after photo of Drums of Thunder out on the road: in front of the Washington Monument, at Madison Square Garden, at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, to name just a few places where they’ve performed. And where...