Ginny Prior

MONTCLARION: May 4, 2012 If it takes a village to raise a child, then Montclair Village needs help. Too many teens are in town after school and there’ve been recent reports of fighting and other bad behavior. How do we address this perennial problem? One way is for all of us to help.  

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MONTCLARION: April 27, 2012 There’s a dark side to spring. Yes, it’s a time for growth and rejuvenation. But it’s also a time for death. A sweet, spotted fawn died the other night — most likely orphaned after losing his mother. Lila Travis with Yggdrasil Urban Wildlife Rescue did everything she could. When she got [...]

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MONTCLARION: April 27, 2012 A lot of my neighbors are nightwalkers. We meet on the street and exchange pleasantries under the moon. But after last week’s shooting of a dog walker on Elverton Drive, I’m — quite frankly — a little afraid. And mad. What does it take to stay safe around here? We have [...]

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MONTCLARION: April 5, 2012 Crimes of opportunity are nothing new in Oakland. We hear about them all the time, but what happened to a hills couple recently is one for the books. They discovered a woman was living on their boat down at Jack London Marina. Reader Laura Thomas says it started when a neighboring [...]

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MONTCLARION: March 29, 2012 The doctor is in. The Town Crier is feeling a little like Lucy Van Pelt, these days, fielding phone calls and emails that are better handled in a complaint department. Yes, crime is up in the hills and yes, $2 is too much to pay for parking. And yes, the Town [...]

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MONTCLARION: March 23, 2012 No one likes being a victim. Yet, collectively, we’re being bullied. Thieves are working the hills like contestants on a timed shopping spree. What they see is what they get. Consider the latest reports — criminals casing the street outside Montclair Elementary School — watching for moms who leave purses in [...]

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MONTCLARION: March 16, 2012 It was the biggest memorial I’ve ever seen for an average guy. A thousand people turned out last week to remember Brad Shaw, a hills scout leader and dad who died doing what he loved — fishing. Corpus Christi Church was packed, and so was the gym, where the Mass was [...]

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MONTCLARION: March 8, 2012 It was 1988 when my husband and I moved to Montclair. We were so smitten with the Village — with it’s little storybook library and fire station, western-themed park and baseball field. We came here for the same reasons you did — the shopping, the nature, the small-town feel just minutes [...]

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MONTCLARION: March 2, 2012 Sadness has settled over the Catholic community in the Oakland hills. Two Corpus Christi church parishioners died last week — one in a tragic shore-fishing accident and one at the hands of an intruder. Joe Robertson was our darkroom manager at the Hills Newspapers for more than 40 years. He was [...]

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