Karen Shinevar

By DEBORAH ANN TRIPOLDI tripoldi@montclairlocal.news Jessica Scheinbaum, 17, volunteers her time with Communities Promoting Animal Welfare NJ. Scheinbaum is a senior at Montclair High School and chose CPAW NJ for her internship in the school’s senior option program. She ...

By DEBORAH ANN TRIPOLDI tripoldi@montclairlocal.news The 12-foot Maypole draped with colorful ribbons stood in the middle of Watchung Plaza while school children, teachers and parents gathered on the lawn. Another May Day celebration kicked off May in Montclair’s month-long activities Wednesday afternoon, May 1. ...

CPAW-NJ is partnering with yoga studios to benefit both cats and people who want to try kitten yoga; socializing kittens and relaxing people.

by TARA KOLTON for Montclair Local Spaying and neutering cats is a necessary, life-saving procedure made easier with the People for Animals SpayStation Mobile Surgical Unit. On Monday, March 5, Communities Promoting Animal Welfare NJ (CPAW NJ) will be once again teaming up with People for Animals (PFA), New Jersey’s largest low cost spay-neuter organization, and ACME Markets on Valley Road, to bri

by Antoinette Martin for Montclair Local Attention, artists. This could be your big — as in, really, really big — chance. Downtown Montclair got a new mural on the side of a Bloomfield Avenue paint store this week, and this launched a program to put as many as 10 original designs up at various downtown locations over the next two years. At the mu ...