Columbus Day, Council Conference Meeting And More In The Week Ahead

Here are some of the stories we're working on and what's happening this week in Montclair. See you around! If we've missed something, add it in the comments section below.

—Monday is Columbus Day. Municipal offices will be closed. Refuse/recycling collection is suspended. Senior bus and evening shuttle is canceled.

—Tuesday is a Township Council Conference Meeting at 7 p.m. in the second floor conference room at 205 Claremont Avenue. 

—Wednesday there will be flu vaccine clinics from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at Cedar Grove Municipal Building, Pompton Avenue, Cedar Grove, and from 11 a.m. to noon at Cedar Ridge Apartments, 100 Cedar Ridge Road, Cedar Grove.

—Back-to-school nights continue with Bullock's night on Oct. 9 and Renaissance on Oct. 10. For more information go here.

—Essex County will host the fall Household Hazardous Waste Collection on Saturday, Oct. 13, in nearby Cedar Grove. This is a convenient location for Montclair residents. The drive-in and drop-off collection takes place from 8:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. sharp, in the Essex County Fleet Maintenance Yard at 99 West Bradford Avenue (the continuation of Bradford Avenue, which can be accessed from Upper Mountain Avenue in Montclair), one block past Pompton Avenue. Read more.