Congragation Shomrei Emunah and Bnai Keshet will celebrate Tashlich together on the first day of Rosh Hashana.
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Culture in brief: St. Peter Claver Day Sunday
The annual celebration of St. Peter Claver’s Feast Day and Homecoming will be on Sunday, Sept. 10, beginning with a Mass at 11 a.m. After Mass, the church will provide […]
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Honoring a saint, riding a ring of fire in Montclair
The Feast and Carnival of Saint Sebastian Wednesday, Aug. 23-Sunday, Aug. 27 Wednesday-Friday, 5-10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, 3-10 p.m. Kaveny Field and Christopher Street area Vespers service: Aug. 26, […]
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Montclair BID plans to revive First Night celebration
By LINDA MOSS moss@montclairlocal.news After what will have been a six-year hiatus, First Night Montclair may be resurrected this year. The Montclair Center Business Improvement District, known as the BID, […]
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Montclair Culture in brief: childrens’ events Saturday for Bastille Day
The French Institute Alliance Française is holding two days of Bastille Day events in Montclair. On Saturday, July 8, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., FIAF will open its Montclair […]
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Feasting in Limbo: Montclair’s Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church holds Mass and Procession
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Mass and Procession Sunday, July 16, 11:15 a.m. Mass, with procession following. Afterward, refreshments in the hall of OLMC Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, […]
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Montclair’s July Fourth Parade offered glitz and heart
By ANTOINETTE MARTIN for Montclair Local Led by a boisterous bunch of marchers from the Montclair Community Pre-K holding signs identifying alumni classes over the last two decades, Montclair’s 67th […]
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And toddlers shall lead them: July 4th in Montclair
By ANTOINETTE MARTIN For Montclair Local The young — the very young — shall lead us at the Montclair July 4th parade. The 67th annual parade kicks off Tuesday at […]
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Montclair’s Fourth of July parade returns for 67th year
COURTESY OF MONTCLAIR TOWNSHIP The Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps band will once again perform at the township’s Fourth of July parade. Montclair’s annual Fourth of July parade with […]
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Alban Hefin: The light of the summer
by Deborah Ann Tripoldi tripoldi@montclairlocal.news The longest day of the year — and no, it’s not a Monday or Black Friday — falls on Wednesday, June 21. Summer begins that […]
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Ramadan: Montclair Muslims celebrate ‘an ongoing Thanksgiving’
By GWEN OREL and ANTOINETTE MARTIN orel@montclairlocal.news It’s very hot on the third floor of Glenfield Middle School. That makes the fast of Ramadan just that little bit harder for […]
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Indoor ceremony remembers the fallen on Memorial Day
A great blue heron flying eastward was silhouetted against the white sky as the Montclair Police Department honor guard fired a salute to the fallen at the township’s annual solemn […]
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Ramadan: less food, more words
By GWEN OREL orel@montclairlocal.news Not eating during the day is not the hardest thing about Ramadan, for Kevin Dawud Amin, of the Masjid Ul Wadud mosque on Bloomfield Avenue. It’s […]
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‘May in Montclair’ festivities open with maypole tradition
by Deborah Ann Tripoldi tripoldi@montclairlocal.news A rainbow of ribbons swirled in the air intertwining the Maypole as children performed the ritual dance for May in Montclair’s opening ceremonies at Watchung […]
