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Introducing: the staff of Montclair Local
HEETEN CHOXI
THALLA- MARIE CHOXI
KEVIN MEACHAM
Heeten and Thalla-Marie have been residents of Montclair for three years. They were drawn to Montclair after hearing about its diversity and culture. They live in the South End, and their house is often mistaken for a day care because of all the children playing there.
They are the parents of three children, a daughter who is 6 years old and attends Edgemont Elementary School, and twin boys who are 20 months old. They are deeply invested in community building, and if you have driven by their house on a warm Friday night you may’ve seen them hosting outdoor movie night in their backyard.
Kevin Meacham, editor
meacham@montclairlocal.news
Kevin served as the man- aging editor at the Montclair Times from early 2015 to late 2016. Prior to that, he was that newspaper’s sports editor for four years, from the summer of 2011 to 2015. He was part of the
that, community editor for three years.
Her work has been rec- ognized with over 20 awards from the New Jersey Press Association, in the categories of column, arts, and feature writing; enterprise reporting; and special section and front-page layout. She has also received four writing awards
LINDA MOSS
beat at The Montclair Times for two years and wrote the “Say What?” column.
She is a longtime business writer, working for Crain’s New York Business and Multichan- nel News, the trade-paper
bible of the cable-TV industry, and freelancing for Ad Age, NJ Spotlight and The Philadelphia Inquirer. At Crain’s she won the
Heeten and Thalla-Marie Choxi, publishers
Montclair Times team that earned back-to-back New Jersey Press Association “General Excel- lence” awards for the large weekly newspaper category in 2014 and 2015, and he is also an award-winning sportswriter, having captured rst place in NJPA’s “Sportswriting Portfolio” category in 2014, 2015 and 2016.
A native of Parsippany, Kevin has lived in Montclair since 2014. He doesn’t think there’s a better slice of pizza in the world than Mr. Dino’s bu alo chicken slice.
Elizabeth Oguss, associate editor
oguss@montclairlocal.news
Elizabeth was the managing editor at The Montclair Times from 2012 to 2015, and before
has lived in Montclair for 19 years. Ask her about her grandchildren.
Linda Moss, municipal reporter
moss@montclairlocal.news
Linda comes to Montclair Local from The Record, where she covered business, South Bergen County and the Meadowlands for ve years. Before that, she had the government
she has also contributed to the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Time Out New
York, and many others. She has a Ph.D. in theater and, as literary manager of Alabama Shakespeare Festival, ran the Southern Writers’ Project. In winter 2017, one of her plays was produced in the ThinkFast
GWEN Short Play Festival; she also OREL attended the National Winter
Playwrights Retreat in Creede,
Colorado. Gwen runs the site New York Irish Arts (newyorkirisharts.com), and can sometimes be found playing ddle at
the St. James Gate session in Maplewood. She is owned by three cats.
Andrew Garda, sports editor
garda@montclairlocal.news
Andrew has covered sports for the last decade, both locally and nationally. A member of the Pro Football Writers Association, he’s covered numerous NFL drafts, games, Senior
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Montclair Local. To date, she has won (or shared in) a total of 23 awards from the New Jersey Press Association, including both the rst- and second-place awards for investigative reporting in the small weeklies category in 2014. Outside of her
many superhero movies with his two kids, watches Nashville, Mr. Robot and Orphan Black with his wife and owns a frighteningly large collection of wacky T-shirts.
Andrew also hosts the NFL podcast “At the Whistle with Andrew Garda” and just re-started his “dad blog,” Dad Moon Rising, where he
talks about balancing life as a dad, a nerd and a writer. He has two dogs who are both occasion- ally jerks.
Deborah Ann Tripoldi, editorial assistant tripoldi@montclairlocal.news
Deborah Ann was an editorial assistant for the North Jersey Media Group Essex East
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Erin graduated cum laude from Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Va. ,
in 2008, and she is also completing a master’s degree in English from Montclair State University.
Gwen Orel, culture editor orel@montclairlocal.news
Gwen served as arts editor of The Montclair Times from 2013 to 2016. She swept the reviews category in 2016 in the annual contest of the New Jersey Pro Chapter of the Society of Pro- fessional Journalists, and also won rst place for feature sections and for column writing from the New Jersey Press Association. She worked at TMT as religion editor in 2012-2013;
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Gerald Loeb Award for nancial journalism for a story on the impact of AIDS on the New York fashion industry.
Linda, who has a Sphynx cat named Blu, has a degree in journalism from the Medill School at Northwestern University. She lives in Montclair and writes a home shopping blog called The Homeshoppingista.
Erin Roll, education reporter
roll@montclairlocal.news
Erin worked as a reporter and editor for North Jersey Media Group, covering Glen Ridge, Bloom eld and other Essex County communities for eight years prior to joining the
Bowls and other events for
sites like Pro Football Weekly, Bleacher Report and the fantasy football site Footballguys.com.
He’s also covered Rutgers and Seton Hall men’s and women’s basketball for the Newark Star-Ledger and NJ.com. When not droning on about 3-4 defenses and point guards, Andrew goes to too
from the New Jersey Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Elizabeth is a member of the American Copy Editors Society and has a certi cate in editing from the Poynter Institute/ACES. She is a board member of the New Jersey SPJ.
Originally from New York state, Elizabeth
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