In brief: ‘Good Works’ at SMI
"Good Works" at Studio Montclair honors volunteers who have supported the member-driven artists' group. It opens Friday, Jan. 17, and runs until Feb. 21.
Jim Price
Letters to the editor, Sept. 19
Saying goodbye after 20 years of Outpost drum circle
In September 1999, I began my drum circle, sponsored by Outpost in the Burbs, held at First Congregational Church in Montclair. Today I am announcing that, after 20 years, I have decided it is time to stop...
Letters to the Editor, Sept. 5
Focus on fighting poverty to beat achievement gap
Poverty and resulting lower socioeconomic status — not racism in Montclair or its schools — remain the primary cause behind our local racial education achievement gap. Instead, we’ve spent way too much time of late finger pointing to “racism” here as the main cause and needed fix.
That was particularly tr...
Letters to the editor, Aug. 8
22 Lackawanna litigation
I think it will be a loss of money to the town to bring a lawsuit to 22 Lackawanna Development. There were 14 hearings and I attended most of them. It was always the same people that attended and did bring up issues...
Letters to the editor, June 27
Safety issues with Montclair school buses
In the Feb. 21, 2019 Montclair Local Opinion page, there was a letter from the Pedestrian Safety Committee. It states that the committee advises the township on how to improve the safety of pedestrians (and bikers) in Montclair...
Letters to the editor, June 13
New schedule at Glenfield Middle School
My name is Olivia Beck, and I am a seventh grader at Glenfield Middle School. I am writing to you concerning the new schedule at Glenfield that will be going into place at the beginning of the 2019-2020 school year...
Letters to the editor, May 23
Make driver's licenses more available
This is about changing the requirements for a New Jersey state driver’s license. There are many people in New Jersey who are prevented from driving because they cannot show proof of permanent residence, the homeless, victims of domestic violence, undocumented residents and people re-entering society after incarceration.
Hav...
Letters to the editor, March 28
Conditions at the Essex County jail
This is about our relationship with the freeholders, the money we send them and what they do with the money. It’s about the immigration detention facility that the county maintains on Doremus Avenue in Newark.
E...
Letters to the editor, March 14
Show vision, encourage Montclair parklets
Montclair is a beautiful town, but it is one that has many problems. One of these is that it is a town that is centered around the car and not people and place.
That said, it is a town that could be and should be a leader in making livable places...
Letters to the editor, Jan. 31
Speak out to freeholders at Feb. 6 meeting
There is an Essex County Freeholders meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 6, at 7 p.m., at the Hall of Records in Newark.
People have been going to these meetings for a number of months to question the Freeholders about the county’s contract with the federal office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). We’v...