Montclair Local

The Montclair Public Library gallery hosts an exhibit by Oliver Lake. The display will be on view in the glass cases on the first floor at 50 South Fullerton Avenue during library hours, September 1–September 29. The Flux Quartet will perform several of Lake’s compositions on September 13 at 4 p.m. in the auditorium, a great time to see and hear Lake’s work.

Montclair High School (ADAM ANIK/MONTCLAIR LOCAL) The Montclair Athletics Blue & White Club is hosting a free mental wellness and performance workshop for all Montclair High School student-athletes and coaches on Monday, September 14, from 7:00–8:30 p.m. at the Montclair High School Auditorium. The session will be led by Sean Pritchard, founder of INHABIT, who has trained more than 10,000 people in breath work and performance coaching, including professional athletes and coaches.

Montclair seniors, Samad Jiles (left) and Zakhir Huff (shown last season) will be two important pieces for the Mounties this season. The Mounties open the 2026 season on Saturday, August 29 at 1 p.m. against Ridgewood at Woodman Field. (EDWARD KENSIK/STAFF) It’s a new day on Saturday when the Montclair High School football team hosts Ridgewood at Woodman Field.

A mural by DISTORT at the Bellevue Theater in Montclair. The mural celebrates Montclair’s history and features iconic figures from its past. (Photo by Tim Hughes) Montclair’s history is on view in a new 40-foot-tall mural painted on the side of the Bellevue Theatre — one of three murals newly added to the theater’s edifices. The artwork details famed African American baseball player Larry Doby, flanked by 19th-century landscape painter George Inness and suffragist Lucy Stone.

Michael Sherman Michael Sherman Montclair, NJ Seven years ago. It was our first time living in the suburbs, and I’ve become a convert. I was born in Ukraine and grew up in Philadelphia. I love a good cheesesteak debate. I spent many years in the art world, working at Christie’s, Phillips and Gagosian, before deciding to make the leap into the nonprofit world. I’m now Chief Communications Officer of the SIFMA Foundation, which focuses on youth financial literacy. Lots of coffee.

Mikie Sherrill, joined by her family, at her inauguration at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center on Jan. 20 in Newark. Sherrill and her family have yet to make a decision about their home in Montclair. (MICHAEL STAHL/FILE PHOTO) New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill has officially moved into the governor’s mansion. What’s the plan for her Montclair home? Sherrill and her family have not yet disclosed whether they will keep or sell their South Mountain Avenue home.

Montclair High School graduate Mya Spears (right, shown last year for the Mounties) competed with the Jamaican fencing team at the 25th Central American and Caribbean Games (CAC) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, from July 24 to Aug. 8. (EDWARD KENSIK/STAFF) Montclair High School graduate Mya Spears has been working hard to get her fencing skills together for her ultimate goal, the 2028 Summer Olympics.

By Steve Janoski. This story first appeared in The Jersey Vindicator. 2:44 pm Homeland Security agents try to arrest Mayor Ras Baraka as Congresswoman LaMonica McIver and other lawmakers surround him outside of Delaney Hall on Friday, May. 9, 2025, in Newark. Photo by Andres Kudacki for The Jersey Vindicator. A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that parts of the federal case against U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver can move forward.

Essex County’s mail-in voting will remain unchanged for the upcoming November elections, despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling this week, Essex County Clerk Christopher Durkin said in a notice. Durkin’s notice was posted after this week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision around mail-in voting. The Supreme Court on Monday lifted a block on President Donald Trump’s executive order that sought to limit mail-in voting for the midterm elections.

Bessie Lee “Betsy” Reid of Union County, a former longtime Montclair resident, died on July 28, 2026. She was 98. Mrs. Reid was born in 1928 in Madison County, Virginia, to Lucy M. Smith and Wesley Carter. As a teenager she moved to the Washington, D.C., area to live with her older sister, Margaret, and complete her high school education. After a short time in Washington, she made her way to Montclair, where she began building the life that would become her legacy.