The dream of creating a state park along an abandoned rail line running from Montclair to Jersey City will become a reality after Gov. Phil Murphy’s announcement last week that the state has purchased the property and allocated $20 million to jump-start the project.  At last week’s press conference in Newark, officials and advocates used superlatives such as “transformative” for …

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The Montclair Public School District is launching a $188 million bond referendum in the November election. State officials have agreed to pony up nearly a third of the total cost if a massive series of proposed upgrades comes to fruition in the Montclair Public School District, administrators say. The Montclair Public School District is launching …

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Councilor at Large Peter Yacobellis will host his second annual Montclair Community Town Hall on Wednesday, October 12th at 7:00pm at the Montclair Art Museum. “I ran on a promise to be as engaging, transparent, and communicative as possible with the public. There is a lot going on in our town — a lot of …

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The Northeast Earth Coalition announced Saturday that Montclair, NJ has been named an official Monarch City by Monarch U.S.A. following approval of an application for same. This week, the Northeast Earth Coalition applied with Monarch City USA, a national organization that promotes the protection of the Monarch butterfly, for recognition as a “Monarch City USA.” …

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Rep. Mikie Sherill said the money will go toward lowering levels of PROF and perchlorates in the township water supply. Montclair will receive more than $2 million to make “significant” updates to the water and sewer system in the township, Rep. Mikie Sherill (D-NJ-11) announced. Sherill had supported funding for projects in her district as …

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Insider NJ has released its 2022 “LGBTQ-plus Power List,” which features 100 spots for the most politically influential members of the LGBTQ community in New Jersey. “There’s a pronounced and conspicuous glass ceiling for LGBTQs in New Jersey politics,” the introduction to the list reads. “Sure, the gatekeepers are happy to have us as ‘the …

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After the Planning Board suggested zoning changes decreasing allowable building heights from six stories to four on Bloomfield Avenue to be in line with the township’s master plan, the Township Council and its Economic Development Committee rejected them. Now a group of land use, housing and preservation advocates is pushing back on that rejection and …

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New Jersey is opening monkeypox vaccine eligibility to people considered at higher risk for the disease, even as vaccine supplies remain limited nationwide and local governments wait on shipments that are quickly outpaced by demand. The JYNNEOS vaccine had already been available to New Jersey residents with known exposures to monkeypox, which is spread through …

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Montclair councilman Peter Yacobellis is concerned about monkeypox, both as a gay man and an elected official. Here’s why. Peter Yacobellis is concerned about monkeypox, both as a gay man and an elected official. But it’s not just the disease’s potential health effects the Montclair councilman is worried about – it’s society’s response to it. …

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Employees of the Starbucks in downtown Montclair will vote this summer on whether to join Starbucks Workers United, according to a release from Workers United, the international union supporting the Starbucks movement. In a letter to Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, James Cruz, a member of the store’s organizing committee, said the store is understaffed, workers …

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