Matt Kadosh

Mariana Horta, Antoinette “Toni” Martin and Kyle Porro filed petitions to run for the at-large vacancy on the Montclair Township Council. The deadline to file was 4 p.m. on Thursday.

A plan to redevelop Nicolo’s Italian Bakery and a nearby two-family home, replacing it with an expanded bakery and apartment building, hinges on the Montclair Historic Preservation Commission approval of the existing structures’ demolition.

The blaze at 85 Elm St. erupted shortly before 7:17 a.m. when a caller reported the top floor of the home filling with black smoke, Deputy Fire Chief Kevin Stoute said in a statement. Nobody was injured, Stoute said.

The school district and contractor Rich Tree Service, which cut down the 60-inch pin oak, said the tall timber was sick.

Five Montclair Township summonses issued to the owner of Fresco Da Franco and Bar Franco were sparked by resident complaints that the restaurant did not allow enough space on the Church Street sidewalk for people with physical disabilities, records show.

Montclair’s history is on view in a new 40-foot-tall mural painted on the side of the Bellevue Theatre with images of the famed African American baseball player Larry Doby, flanked by 19th-century landscape painter George Inness and suffragist Lucy Stone.

Filming in Montclair, Bloomfield and West Orange has drawn residents' attention. Here's who's filming what, where and what folks are saying about it.

The director of Montclair’s public works department is no longer working for the town, Township Manager Stephen D. Marks said Wednesday.

Parents outnumbered students Thursday morning as families arrived for the first day of classes at the new Montclair Early Learning Academy, the district’s preschool program now housed in the former Renaissance Middle School.

Wheeler Antabanez' subjects include an abandoned ShopRite in West Caldwell, a South Orange pumping station, and “epic medical waste” at the hospital complex in Orange.