Man is severely beaten, dumped in lot By Dan Prochilo| July 17 After he was beaten so badly that his sinuses and nasal bones were fractured and he wavered in and out of consciousness, a Montclair man was hoisted by his attackers and thrown into a vacant Mission Street lot between 10 p.m. on Friday, July 11, and 4 a.m. the following morning.
Plans for Olympic Shop revealed By Dan Prochilo| July 17 A developer is scheduled to appear before Montclair’s Historic Preservation Commission tonight with plans to restore the façade of what used to be The Olympic Shop at 622 Valley Road.
MHS principal Mel Katz to retire By George Wirt| July 16 After four years as principal of Montclair High School, Mel Katz will retire this summer, according to Schools Superintendent Frank Alvarez. Judith Weiss, a former assistant commissioner of the state Department of Education, will succeed Katz on an interim basis. Weiss will serve until a permanent replacement is named.
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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A nostalgic view of our country’s scenic vistas as seen through the lens of early cameras can be found in "Eloquent Vistas:The Art of 19th-Century American Landscape Photography from the George Eastman House Collection."
On view through Sept.14, in the Montclair Art Museum’s Judy and Josh Weston Exhibition Gallery, the exhibition features 60 19th-century photographic landscapes by photographers such as Timothy H. O’Sullivan, Eadweard Muybridge, and William Henry Jackson.
When the Jesus People Movement of the late 1960s ushered in waves of college hippies and young evangelical Americans who spawned a revival in the contemporary Christian church, musicians discovered the sanctuary as a channel of expressing renewed spiritualism.
A Montclair congregation is the latest in the township to take a tip from the Jesus Movement and develop a new, eclectic music program for Sunday worship.
New development: Raper takes over Cougars From rolling out soccer balls as a coach to managing 60 staff members at the Soccer Domain for Ashley’s Soccer, Jordan Raper has made an impact at the Walnut Street training facility. Raper, who was named head coach of The Montclair Kimberley Academy’s boys soccer team this past May, hopes his coaching skills and keen sense of program development will carry over to the Cougars.
Is Irving's move
strictly a profile booster? It is one of the oldest parochial high schools in New Jersey, dating back to its days as a two-year institution of higher learning during the Civil War. And, if you mention Port Elizabeth in the presence of St. Patrick’s Principal Joe Picaro, be ready to retract those words and also the direction in which you take your next step.
"We’re 2 1/2 blocks from [Newark Bay], and it’s Elizabethport," says Picaro. "We opened in 1863 as a two-year school and became a four-year school in 1868.
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