Montclair Group Calls for Community Center
The Montclair Senior Citizen Advisory Committee wants to turn the vacant Social Security building, at 369 Bloomfield Ave., into a public space for residents.
Montclair has a lot to offer on its mainline, but a local group thinks it's missing one thing: a community center. The Montclair Senior Citizen Advisory Committee wants to create a public space in town, said committee member Ann Lippel, which can be a place for local information, a space for local organizations to meet, and a spot to just hang out. “The center will be a focal point for everybody in town,” said Lippel. “It is clear ... that there is a need for this kind of coordinating [and] facilitative presence. It will be a clearing house for a lot of information that is [currently] atomized in small pockets. Lippel said another driving force for a community center is the idea of allowing older residents to “age in place in Montclair…
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12:48 pm on Thursday, December 27, 2012
The town voted in the candidates who said that they would not cut staff or reduce benefits in order to save money. The candiates said thatmoney would be saved through shared services. It sounded like snake oil, but the voters either bought into it or felt that saving money, reducing taxes and offering more services was not important. At this point we should be realistic. We will not save any … more ›