Matt Kadosh

Parking shortages and flooding dominated the Montclair Planning Board’s discussion Monday night of a developer’s controversial plans to build a 7,740-square-foot SwimQuest swim school on 0.36 acres next to a firehouse on Valley Road.

Arriving crews found one person inside the vehicle, which had rolled over on its side, Fire Capt. Thomas Hargraves said. The crash happened around 12:30 p.m. on Aug. 2.

The Montclair school board on Wednesday authorized up to $250,000 for the firm EisnerAmper to conduct a forensic audit into the causes of the district’s $19.6 million deficit.

Montclair Public Schools’ new general counsel is an attorney with three decades of experience whose firm beat out six other bidders for the one-year contract.

Here's what's is happening at 65 Church Street in Montclair. The developing apartment project is nearing an important tax agreement.

Montclair is working on a new local law that would reduce the number of backyard chickens that people could keep to six.

Authorities took the rider to St. Joseph’s University Medical Center in Paterson for a report of pain to his head and lower back, police Lt. Terence Turner said.

“The suspect became irate and began attacking the employee and throwing store merchandise throughout the aisles before fleeing,” police Lt. Terence Turner said.

A Montclair restaurant owner is due back in municipal court later this month over five summonses the township issued him for violations of the town's sidewalk clearance law, something he clams was “selective enforcement.”

The lawsuit claims the district failed to “properly supervise, attend to, care for and otherwise provide for the safety” of the student, including by not adequately reporting and recording reports about the safety of children.