Denise Bogle News Today

How would one sum up local news events from this week 50 years ago? “Feisty” might be fitting.

Bus driver Karen Moriarty said Montague administrators and board members turned a blind eye to nearly 20 "dangerous, unsafe" practices.

Timothy Capone, who has faced criticism by board members and parents for years, says he still does not know why he was placed on administrative leave.

With litigation behind them, the two school boards planned to meet privately to begin exploring a merging of services.

Montague, a one-school district serving students in pre-kindergarten through grade eight, petitioned the state education commissioner in December 2019 for approval to end its relationship with High Point Regional, in Wantage, so it could go back to sending students in grades 9-12 to Port Jervis High School in New York. A subsequent lawsuit by Montague, filed December 2020, accused High Point of bad-faith obstruction of its petition, which was not ruled on and is now a dead issue. Montagues reso...