Montclair Council

Some Montclair residents are questioning why Mayor Sean Spiller deviated from the previously published agenda at a recent Township Council meeting to hold public comment later in the night, after a vote that could lead to an expanded temporary skate park at Rand Park had already taken place. 

The town plans to purchase the former PNC Bank building and parking lot at 57 Park St., spending as much as $1.35 million. 

Gov. Phil Murphy was a special guest in Montclair today, swearing in Sean Spiller as Montclair’s next mayor.

The League of Women Voters of the Montclair area education fund, Aging in Montclair (AIM) and Montclair Local newspaper will host a televised-only candidates forum on Wednesday, April 22, 7 p.m.

A group of clergy came out to decry Councilwoman Renée Baskerville not being appointed as deputy mayor in June. 

The Montclair Township Council is calling on Montclair’s national representatives to do what they can to aid in the search for a missing Montclair couple in Barbados. 

By Jaimie Julia Winters winters@montclairlocal.news Residents not happy with a rise in parking fees at the Fullerton Parking Deck could see some relief. At least temporarily. Beginning this Thursday, Feb. 7, the rates return to 75 cents an hour for the next 60 days after the council voted through an emergency resolution Tuesday night...

By Kelly Nicholaides for Montclair Local Union Gardens at 50 Greenwood Ave. has been the site of 30 police responses in 2017 and 22 in 2018 — the latter including the township’s third homicide of 2018. As a result, the mayor and council asked the Montclair Police Department, the township’s Section 8 administrator and the management company of the 87-unit affordable housing complex to address safet

Seymour Street apartment complex residents are lamenting the loss of their neighborhood parking lot since it closed last week due to the construction of the development project near the Wellmont Theater.

A proposal to limit building heights along Bloomfield Avenue to four stories is no longer in the works, as Township Planner Janice Talley presented a new plan which will allow the downtown area to remain a six-story limit zone.