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| | Food resources feel the pinch of bad economy
11/06/2008
As the holiday season approaches, the hungry and the homeless are not the only ones seeking sustenance from Montclair’s food banks, pantries and soup kitchens.
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| | 2008 Election results
11/04/2008
The results are in.
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| | Half of registered voters cast ballots by mid-day
11/04/2008
Several poll workers today told The Times that by mid-day more than 50 percent of registered voters assigned to specific sites had already cast their ballots.
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| | Your thoughts about the election
11/04/2008
The Montclair Times received several letters from residents regarding today's Presidential Election. Here are their stories.
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| | Machine down at Mt. Hebron
11/04/2008
A voting machine that had been broken since early afternoon has yet to be replaced at Mt. Hebron Middle School, a poll worker told The Times.
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| | Let the voting begin
11/04/2008
At 6 a.m. this morning, a few minutes before sunrise, Don Nelson walked up to the fire house at 588 Valley Rd. to wait for the doors to open.
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| | Students look to online support
10/23/2008
Hours before Ryne Dougherty passed away last Wednesday, hundreds of friends and classmates had already be-gun sending well wishes to the family on a Web site called Facebook.
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| | Council divided on proclamation
10/23/2008
A proclamation honoring a Montclair group that regularly rallies for peace divided the Montclair Township Council Tuesday night.
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| | Goodbye to Ryne
10/23/2008
Imagine Ryne Dougherty.
He’s poised at his linebacker position for the Montclair High School football team. Dougherty and his teammates are hanging onto a narrow lead, attempting to make a fourth-quarter, goal-line stand against archrival Bloomfield H
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| | Hundreds turn out to remember fallen player
10/20/2008
Ryne Dougherty took on life like the linebacker he was, tackling sports and schoolwork as fiercely as he would an opposing running back.
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| | Remembering Ryne
10/18/2008
On a crisp, autumnal night made for football, nearly 700 Montclair High School students, faculty members and friends walked an emotional two-block procession to a candle-lit vigil held for Ryne Dougherty.
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| | Montclair High School football player dies
10/16/2008
Ryne Dougherty, a Montclair High School football player, died Wednesday evening due to complications from a critical injury he suffered during a game on Monday, according to Hackensack University Medical Center spokesperson Nancy Radwin.
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| | MHS football player critically injured in game
10/15/2008
A Montclair High School junior varsity football player remained hospitalized in critical condition. Ryne Dougherty, a junior, was acutely injured during this past Monday’s game against Don Bosco Prep in Ramsey.
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| | Lessening the sting: In the wake of financial crisis, local offi
10/09/2008
Four years ago, Montclair and several other disgruntled communities sought to secede from Essex County to reduce homeowners’ ever-increasing tax burdens.
“They couldn’t do that of course, but it was a symbolic gesture,” said Montclair State Unive
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| | County could owe Montclair big bucks
10/02/2008
What started as a property acquisition has become a complicated tax squabble between Montclair and Essex County.
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| | Soft opening for skating showground
10/02/2008
Phil De Angelo, United Skates of America Inc. vice president of development, has a big vision for a neighborhood ice hockey rink.
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| | Suspects in bank heist, stabbing are busted, cops say
10/01/2008
The two people who police believe to be responsible for a bank robbery and a stabbing that both occurred in Montclair on Sept. 14 were apprehended earlier this week.
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| | Woman dies from burns in kitchen
09/26/2008
John Lytle made a terrible discovery when he went to check on his mother-in-law last Friday, Sept. 26.
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| | Board of Ed to televise meetings
09/25/2008
Parents, property-taxpayers and local residents who can’t get to the Montclair Board of Education’s public meetings will be able to view the sessions in the comfort of their own homes homes on the local municipal access cable television.
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| | Overnight parking fix could return
09/25/2008
A complex antidote to the longstanding problems resulting from overnight street parking being largely banned in Montclair could soon be revived.
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| | Newsweek scribe gauges presidential race
09/18/2008
Democrats are bummed.
With wounds still fresh from losing tight elections in 2000 and 2004, many party members thought this would be the first presidential race since 1996 that did not come down to the wire.
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| | Gasoline taints monitoring well
09/11/2008
The town is investigating the source of gasoline found on the Montclair Water Bureau site off Watchung Avenue.
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| | Arena on thin ice
09/04/2008
Out of three bids, United Skates of America has been recommended as the company with the best proposal to manage the Montclair Clary Anderson Arena.
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| | Watch the clock
08/28/2008
The new Township Council will find its way, but establishing protocols is an essential part of the process.
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| | Court nixes no-bids
08/28/2008
After two years and several hearings, a verdict has been rendered in Mattox v. Montclair.
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| | In the still of the night…the counci is still at it
08/27/2008
Anyone who has attended recent Township Council proceedings or viewed the live broadcasts on TV-34 has likely observed recent meetings to be lengthy and somewhat unstructured.
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| | Workers: ‘Save our jobs!’
08/21/2008
Approximately 30 workers from the Department of Community Services protested for the second time in as many weeks outside the Municipal Building this past Tuesday, as they continued decrying the potential privatization of the township’s trash removal.
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| | Their day in court
08/21/2008
Forty people, some of them bristling, some resigned and all of them displeased, filed into Montclair Municipal Court last Friday.
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| | Mayor outlines sustainable future
08/21/2008
Implement a townwide environmental sustainability campaign.
Expand crosswalk safety initiatives.
Institute a year-round Board of School Estimate budgetary process for the Montclair School District.
Consider overnight parking options.
Improve access to
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| | Drivers snagged in sting have special hearing
08/21/2008
Forty people, some of them bristling, some resigned and all of them displeased, filed into Montclair Municipal Court last Friday for the first special court session devoted to drivers ticketed during the "Cops in the Crosswalks" campaign.
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| | Partial verdict in Mattox v. Montclair expected soon
08/21/2008
New Jersey Superior Court Judge Walter Koprowski Jr. intends to issue a ruling next week on the validity of the contracts awarded to the Montclair Arts Council (MAC) and the Montclair Economic Development Corp. (MEDC) in the Mattox v. Montclair lawsuit.
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| | Meeting and greeting prospective voters
08/20/2008
Perhaps “hot dogs and beer” doesn’t ring synonymously with “Congress.”
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| | Train signals downed and fried
08/18/2008
NJ Transit workers believe an unknown driver tried to beat a train at Walnut Street and smacked a railroad crossing gate, causing it to fly into overhead wires and fry the intersection’s rail control system. As of 7:45 p.m. Monday evening, workers were
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| | Multiple drug busts made on Mission Street
08/07/2008
Often the subject of complaints about blasting car stereos, narcotics sales and outdoor boozing, Mission Street became the scene of three drug-related arrests in a five-day span at the end of last month.
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| | Public workers: Idea is rubbish
08/07/2008
As officials consider dumping the municipal garbage collection and hiring a contractor to dispose of Montclair’s trash, the township’s publicly employed refuse collectors and their union colleagues marched to protest that notion this past Tuesday, Aug
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| | Third-quarter tax bills show hefty increases
07/24/2008
Most property owners’ third-quarter estimated tax bills have increased from their second-quarter tax bills, according to Montclair Chief Financial Officer Gordon Stelter.
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| | To drill, or not to drill?
07/24/2008
The day after President George W. Bush lifted a presidential ban on offshore oil drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf, Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-8) said the ban “has no value,” and it would not have an impact on soaring gas prices.
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| | School’s out; offices in?
07/24/2008
Vacant for four years, the Katharine Gibbs School, part of which dates to 1870, could be transformed into a super-energy-efficient, earth-friendly office building, if the Zoning Board OKs the owners’ plans.
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| | Robber claims to have bomb, gun
07/17/2008
“Founded in 1893, to Promote Economy and to Protect Its Fruits.”
So reads the inscription on the south wall of the stately stone Bank of America branch with the Ionic columns at the corner of Glenridge and Bloomfield avenues.
Despite that mission st
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| | Suspect in killing enters ‘not guilty’ plea
07/17/2008
During Kenneth Duckett’s arraignment yesterday morning, authorities announced that they had added another offense, violating a final restraining order, to the list of charges facing Duckett, the suspect in the slaying of Monica Paul.
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| | Surveillance photos from today's heist released
07/15/2008
An oddly, and rather flamboyantly, attired bank robber struck at the Bank of America branch at the corner of Bloomfield and Glenridge avenues this morning, Tuesday, July 15, police said.
The robber entered the bank at about 9:47 a.m. in white-rimmed su
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| | Captured: Manhunt concludes with slaying suspect caught
07/09/2008
After 12 days as a fugitive, Kenneth Duckett had his freedom stripped away this past Tuesday as he sat in an apartment on Troy Avenue, in Brooklyn’s East Flatbush neighborhood.
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| | Mother wrote goodbye letters to children before her slaying
07/03/2008
“If you’re reading this, then something must have happened to me.”
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| | Duckett to appear on ‘America’s Most Wanted’
07/03/2008
Paul Loriquet, spokesperson for the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office, has revealed to The Times that America’s Most Wanted has offered assistance to the Prosecutor’s Office and the Montclair Police Department by posting a short segment about Kenneth
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| | Monica Paul remembered as ‘loving mother’
07/03/2008
Her pretty smile was hard to break.
Those who knew Monica Paul remember that smile, the smile she wore while watching her 4-year-old son, Noah, take swimming lessons last Thursday evening before tragedy struck.
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| | Life, and innocence, lost
07/03/2008
As Montclair continued dealing with the disgust, disbelief and sorrow from the cold-blooded killing of Monica Paul, at a place meant to be a haven for children and families, more than a dozen detectives earlier this week worked fulltime on hunting down th
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| | Budget will likely show 7.44 percent tax increase
07/03/2008
As their last act in office, the outgoing Township Council members have approved a $67.8 million municipal budget for the 2008 Fiscal Year that, when combined with Montclair School District and Essex County taxes, will likely result in a 7.44 percent over
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| | Cops may have found the gun
06/27/2008
Detectives discovered a gun near the site of last night’s callous murder of a mother of two at The Helen & Bill Geyer YMCA Family Center, The Times has learned from Paul Loriquet, spokesman for the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office.
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| | Montclair woman murdered Thursday evening
06/26/2008
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| | Cops: 18-year-old sexually assaults boy in library restroom
06/26/2008
A 12-year-old boy from Montclair was sexually assaulted in the bathroom of the Montclair Public Library on Wednesday, June 25, around 2:30 p.m., according to police.
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| | $67.8M budget nears completion
06/25/2008
Extreme cuts such as shutting down a firehouse or closing the Bellevue Avenue branch of the Montclair Public Library won’t be made, according to municipal officials as a result of their most recent round of budgetary revisions.
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| | All-Children’s Playground nearing reality
06/26/2008
After eight years in the making, a universal playground in Montclair is close to fruition.
On June 20, under a bright blue sky, municipal officials, residents, children, and financial donors convened in Edgemont Memorial Park for the kickoff ceremony of
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| | Council to conduct its own tests at Renaissance
06/18/2008
The Township Council has laid the groundwork to launch its own independent investigation of the potential as-bestos hazard at Renaissance Middle School.
After hearing emotional appeals from representatives of Renaissance parent groups, Mayor Ed Remsen di
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| | Liquor-license exchange bill in limbo
06/19/2008
Montclair’s municipal government would love to sell another liquor license, which would fetch a windfall similar to, or greater than, the price of a house. But officials can’t issue license No. 13 unless state legislators pass a bill that has stalled
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| | Ed Remsen reflects on four fulfilling years
06/18/2008
Ed Remsen likes to lead. He likes to manage people. He likes to be in charge.
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| | Council stalls on 7 percent tax increase
06/18/2008
The majority of Township Council members voted down a resolution to amend a $67.8 million municipal budget that, when combined with Montclair School District and Essex County taxes, would result in an 7.44 percent overall tax increase.
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| | Outgoing council reflects on 4 resonant years
06/25/2008
The departing Township Council members have had an action-packed tenure, punctuated by peaks and valleys.
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