Marjory Stoneman Douglas

The 2020 Montclair Film Festival features hometown connections with "Zappa," the Young Voter Project and more: virtually. Through Oct. 25.

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news In 1996, it stood as a sign of hope in the face of gun violence. Twenty-two years later, the mural beneath the Chestnut Street trestle bridge is faded, peeling and covered in graffiti. But a group of Montclair High School students want to revive it as a sign of the current climate of gun violence...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news It was a festive night Thursday as 516 members of Montclair High School's Class of 2018 began the next chapter of their lives. Amid the pomp and circumstance of the traditional graduation ceremony in the MHS amphitheater, however, was a reminder that the graduates, and their generation, must do what is right in an increasingly turbulent world and political cli

Montclair High's SVPA opens "Chicago: High School Edition" on Friday, May 4.

The Phi Mu Alhpa Fraternity presents a benefit concert for Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Friday, April 20.

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Security upgrades and field renovations came up for discussion at Monday night's Board of School Estimate meeting, along with the question of which staff positions may be cut. The board held the first of three hearings on the budget that evening...

Montclair High School students present "CODE RED" at Luna Stage, to foster conversation about gun violence.

Hundreds of Montclair students walked out of school at 10 a.m. on March 14, one month after the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, left 17 dead. At Glenfield Middle School, students were asked to gather in back of the school, but some poured out in front....

By GWEN OREL and ERIN ROLL orel@montclairlocal.news roll@montclairlocal.news Students from numerous Montclair public schools walked out of class last Wednesday, March 14, to take part in a nationally organized walkout to protest gun violence...

Montclair High School teens talk about their plan to walk out of school on March 14 in support of gun reform.