Parkland school shootings

A mural installed under the Chestnut Street raises concerns about community input when public art about controversial issues is installed.

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news In the lobby at Buzz Aldrin Middle School, you’ll find a bulletin board with two giant hearts on it. Inside the hearts are hundreds of rainbow-colored sticky notes, each one with a suggestion on how students (and adults) can be nice to each other. “...

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...

A teenager from outer space? MKA performs new play "The Sundogs" in Planet Connections Festivity.

Taking responsibility I started this letter after the Parkland shooting, at a time when the memory was fresh in my mind. I wish I could say I’ve never felt hurt the way I did when I found out that my peers across the country had been killed in a place many of us consider to be a home away from home. Scho ...

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...

Students in Montclair walked out of school to protest gun violence, on Wednesday, March 14.