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The pride of Montclair: Aldrin and Berra talk about making it into hall of Jersey’s legends
It goes without saying that Buzz Aldrin has been places, and during his travels he has accrued the keys to many cities and plenteous other honors — not to mention 46 pounds of lunar rock.

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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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Montclair priests express hope for Pope Benedict U.S. visit
The Rev. Jack Judge will never forget Pope Benedict XVI’s warm smile.

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More than 1,000 walk in Darfur event
Born and raised in a region neglected by the government and transformed into a killing zone, Sumiea Eltayeb knows she is one of the fortunate.

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4th Ward hopefuls discuss issues, objectives
In a frank, revealing forum, 4th Ward Township Council candidates discussed the future of Montclair’s South End.

On April 9, in the Glenfield Middle School auditorium, political hopefuls Dr. Renée Baskerville, David L. Taylor Jr., David Cummings and incumbent Sandra Lang spoke on affordable housing, policing, redevelopment, and effec-tive political representation.

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A torch to end genocide: Darfur walk and rally to be held Sunday, April 13
Nancy Taiani drives past the signs every day.

“Not On Our Watch,” proclaim the placards on church lawns across Montclair, lawns greening with the rebirth of spring, but in stark contrast to the arid, devastated landscape of Darfur, where genocide continues.

And every day, Taiani is becoming increasingly frustrated.

“It’s just horrible that we can’t do something to stop it,” said Taiani, the Parishioners for Peace & Justice coordinator at Montclair’s St. Peter Claver Church.

“If we can’t stop the fighting, at least we can help the people who are there.”

As violence engulfs western Sudan, bringing it to the brink of collapse, Montclair will again embrace unity to combat the genocide in Darfur.

(SEE FULL STORY IN THE THURSDAY, APRIL 10, EDITION OF THE MONTCLAIR TIMES)

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Prosecutors: Release of man who plotted school, highway shootings leaves public in danger
Federal authorities might appeal the recent sentencing of a schizophrenic Montclair man who, according to police, plotted to shoot people randomly at a school in Connecticut and along an interstate highway in Vermont.

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Passed over for Iraq during active duty, soldier signs up for deployment
The Marine’s response had become automatic, instinctual.

While driving his vehicle, he spotted crushed debris down the road, right where a car’s passenger’s side tires would roll over it. The flattened bit of trash had the placement typical of an insurgent booby trap, of an improvised explosive camouflaged as litter.

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New green machines: 2,000 watts, brought to you by the wind
The two large, red-tipped levers were pulled down Friday, activating two devices capable of converting the force of the wind into electrical power.


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News
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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