MONTCLAIR, NJ - Jonathan G.S. Koppell has been selected as Montclair State University’s 9th president, the Board of Trustees announced today. A nationally regarded scholar of policy, organization.
MONTCLAIR, NJ - The Township of Montclair held its annual Memorial Day ceremony on May 31 under relatively more favorable circumstances than in 2020, when the COVID-19 virus(SARS CoV-2) was still.
May 7, 2021 at 11:02 AM
MONTCLAIR, NJ - Members of the community demanded the Board of Education (BOE) conduct a thorough investigation into mistreatment allegations described in a letter from Supervisor of Buildings and Grounds Robert Kelley in Wednesday’s BOE meeting.
The letter refers to a “years-long pattern of ‘employee discrimination and criminal sabotage’,” some of which occurred just before elementary schools opened for hybrid learning. One individual stated during public comment that the community received Kelley’s letter via a post in Secret Montclair, a private Facebook group for Montclair residents. It has since been removed.
“I’m aware of our complaint that we received,” Superintendent Dr. Jonathan Ponds started off his superintendent’s statement. “We’re investigating the complaint [.] We are following all processes and guidelines.”
May 5, 2021 at 4:04 PM
MONTCLAIR, NJ - The Montclair Township Council s May 4 meeting was expected to be long, due to controversial decisions made for the 2021 municipal budget that would attract dozens of residents to the public comment part, and it was. Concerns from councilors over items up for a vote made the meeting even longer.
Mayor Sean Spiller announced a few amendments to the 2021 budget, set at $93.8 million, and the most notable one was increasing the expenditure for the library system to $419,848, a $100,000 increase. Residents in support of a robust library budget, appalled by the original amount, had planned to call into the virtual meeting an take issue with the library line item. They did so anyway, many pleased with the last-minute increase but still dissatisfied with the size of the increase.
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