Post Tagged with: "Montclair"
Wrestlers Go For #1 Tonight
The place to be tonight is Verona High School’s main gym, where the Hillbilly Wrestling team has a chance to win the Conference title for the first time since the town first fielded a team 25 years ago. If the Hillbillies beat Montclair tonight at home, they will win the Super Essex Conference; a loss [...]
‘Jersey Shore’ Jams Traffic In Montclair
Like every other long-term resident of this state, I know the correct answer to “What exit?” and that we go “down the shore” and not “down to the shore” (or, heaven forbid, the beach). I don’t, however, get the appeal of the MTV reality show “Jersey Shore”. Several hundred people apparently do, and our neighboring [...]
Committee Warns On Montclair’s Debt
An independent committee has poured more salt into Montclair’s budget-gap wounds. According to a report in The Star Ledger, the group warned Montclair’s town council this week that the size and structure of the town’s debt load could raise taxes by as much as 7.8 percent in the future. That’s because more than half of [...]
Belt-Tightening In Maplewood, Montclair
Dire budgets are forcing cutbacks in still more Essex County towns. According to today’s Star Ledger, Maplewood has laid off 10% of its municipal workers and is merging its violations bureau with South Orange. There are furloughs planned for the entire year and library hours are being cut. Maplewood Patch, a local news Web site, [...]