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Sablone, who visited this week, will be designing skateable sculptures for Rand Park, and whatever home Montclair skaters find next.

Renee Baskerville’s bid for president of the Montclair NAACP has been pulled by the National NAACP, which has taken over the local election due to infighting.

Montclair officials enacted a rent freeze last year to protect tenants during the economic downturn due to COVID-19. Now, a Landlord-Tenant Housing Advisory Committee official says that while some landlords have violated the ordinance, some tenants have filed false claims about landlords concerning the freeze. 

As of Jan. 13, a total of 264,681 vaccine doses had been administered, including 236,503 first doses and 28,045 second doses. The total is expected to go up “exponentially” over the next week, Murphy said. 

The national NAACP is taking over the Montclair NAACP’s first contested election in nearly a decade.

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.newsMore than 1,000 health-care workers at Mountainside hospital in Montclair have received at least their first doses of coronavirus vaccine, about a month after they first became available. That still leaves about...

Winter registration is open for classes at the Adult School of Montclair Public Library, with online classes starting Tuesday, Jan. 19.

Also: The state is dropping graduation assessment tests this year.

The Bellevue Theatre owner says he is considering a residential and retail project with a theater on the ground level, after plans to renovate the historic theater fell through last week. 

The group planning to remodel and reopen Montclair’s historic Bellevue Theatre has pulled out — at least temporarily.