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| Yip! Yip! Hooray! Dog park reopens |
Moments after the last construction worker stepped off the stone dust Monday, Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo Jr. announced to The Times that the Brookdale Dog Park is ready for use – nine days ahead of schedule.
The facility will open Wednesday, April 16, and is maintaining its 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. hours – time restraints that were unleashed after park neighbors raised concerns about the noise and traffic on their streets they said the dog park had brought since it was constructed in November.
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| NAACP hosts candidates’ forum |
Township Council contenders discussed economics, diversity and racial profiling during the Montclair NAACP’s municipal government candidates’ forum.
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| Campus fashions barely cover tops, bottoms |
The Montclair Board of Education wants its high school students to cover up. Literally.
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| Artclair |
“Art” is synonymous with “Montclair.”
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| Montclair memorial to honor MLK legacy |
Under a bright blue sky, Alison Moore saw her dream take shape.
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| Police Plotter: May 1, 2008 |
This can be filed under “Nightmarish Encounters with Horrible Roommates.”
When he moved out of her apartment on South Mountain Avenue, a man police are seeking stole $15,000 worth of his roommate’s jewelry, including a family heirloom, and trashed the room he had been staying in, according to police.
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| Council talks trains, parking, policy |
Montclair is another step closer to upholding its 12-hour quiet zone.
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| Firefighters’ heroics bring honors |
Saving them demanded not just courage, but the ability to absorb punishment.
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| The great awakening of Montclair: Revivalism continues to sweep religious community in modern-day era |
The Rev. Michael Cox was determined to give the people an old-fashioned Southern revival.
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| A woman to lead the faithful |
For 16 years, Jesuit educators taught Ann Ralosky to question everything.
So she questioned them.
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| Montclair nurses aid Honduras |
A 15-month-old Honduran boy covered in a red rash was laid out on a table as Nicole Armeno hustled to find a vein in his weakened body.
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| Yip! Yip! Hooray! Dog park reopens |
Moments after the last construction worker stepped off the stone dust this past Monday, Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo Jr. announced that the Brookdale Dog Park is ready for use – nine days ahead of schedule.
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| Branching out on forestry plan |
Renewing community education and awareness about recycling is usually a hot topic among Montclair Environmental Commission members, but the town’s shade tree plans again took center stage during their meeting in the Edgemont Memorial Park Field House last Wednesday, April 9.
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| Oh holy site: Catholics online |
It was 60 years ago in Montclair, another Sunday morning on Pine Street inched nearer to 9 a.m.
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| Health care shifts concern citizens |
Hazel Little had no choice but to sit back and accept that health care is not getting any cheaper, or easier to understand.
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| Police blotter, April 3 |
Two women at a restaurant on Church Street caught a man who was sitting near them masturbating under his table last week, police said.
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| One juvenile charged in rape case opts to be tried as adult |
One of the underage boys charged with participating in the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl in a Hartley Street house has chosen to stand trial as an adult, officials announced this past Tuesday.
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| Police: Shots fired on Gates Avenue |
Police responding to calls about the sound of gunfire on Gates Avenue last week found spent shell casings, but were unable to locate the shooter or the bullets, authorities said.
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| Carwash owner mounts court challenge to NJDOT taking |
A Bloomfield Avenue car wash owner, facing a potential forced hiatus of nine months or more while the state fixes a bridge next to his property, has filed a court motion to derail the state Department of Transportation’s plans.
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| A 7-Eleven? Sorry, board says |
Published on April 24, 2008
Plans for a 7-Eleven to move in on the corner of Bloomfield Avenue and Valley Road were shot down when the Zoning Board, in a 5-to-2 decision, rejected the proposal.
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| Police blotter, April 24, 2008 |
Three men jumped a Montclair resident as he walked home from work and beat him with metal poles, police said.
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| Longtime board member resigns |
Published April 24, 2008
Gerard Haizel, who has served on the Zoning Board for over a decade, announced earlier this month he would be stepping down.
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| He ditches gun, bullets, car during pursuit |
Published on April 24, 2008
Amid a car chase through four towns last Friday, a driver who police officers were tailing threw a handgun and ammunition out his car window near the corner of Elm Street and Lexington Avenue, police said.
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| Woman runs under dangling limb to halt tree demise |
Published on April 24, 2008
Louise Shallcross risked her life to prevent the municipal Department of Community Services from chopping down a half-century-old tree on Marquette Road last Tuesday, April 15, running under the canopy while workers in cherry pickers pruned the tree.
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| Police blotter, April 17, 2008 |
A driver who cut off a police cruiser while making a left turn on Orange Road was pulled over and arrested, along with his two passengers, and charged with having an illegal handgun stowed in the car, police said.
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| Affordable housing inventory to rise |
Published on April 17, 2008
An affordable-housing developer has received clearance to convert a vacant garage, with abandoned cars corroding in its backyard, into two condos for cash-strapped buyers.
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| MSU student charged with threatening campus shooting |
Published on April 17, 2008
Montclair State University police have arrested an 18-year-old student and charged him with threatening, through a message written on a desk, to commit a campus shooting on April 10.
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| State compiling guide to restoring Montclair Center’s original look |
Published April 17, 2008
What happened on Bloomfield Avenue last Wednesday could have been the opening sequence of one of those reality TV shows where a drab or dilapidated building is transformed, in the span of an incredibly productive half-hour, into a palace that makes the owners gasp and grow teary-eyed by episode’s end.
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