The Verona Girls’ Basketball team lost to Science Park High School in the preliminary round of the Essex County Tournament in Newark yesterday, 71-66. Despite the fact that Science Park’s Division One-bound senior guard Ezinne Kalu exploded for a career-high 53 points, the Verona girls held their own and were in the game until...
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Archive for January, 2010
Girls Fall in County Tourney
Shabazian Takes 2nd In County
The Essex County Wrestling Tournament ended yesterday with Verona wrestlers advancing at every level, and senior Sean Shabazian going all the way to the finals in the 171 weight class. Though Shabazian was defeated in the finals in a close match against Joe Lombardo of Seton Hall Prep, he earned 2nd place in the...
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Nature Photography For Adults
The Essex County Nature Photographers group will be holding a workshop on close up and macro photography this Wednesday, February 3, at 7 p.m. at the Essex County Environmental Center. The guest speaker is Brien Szabo, a professional photographer who is well known for his New Jersey nature photography. The workshop costs $7 per...
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Nursery Schools: Weekday Nursery School
My fifth nursery school visit was to First Presbyterian Weekday Nursery School located at 10 Fairview Avenue in the First Presbyterian Church. The classroom is bright, inviting, and loaded with age appropriate toys for pre-school aged children. Art decorates the walls as well as the letters and numbers they are studying each week. The...
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Celebrate Chinese New Year At VHS
You’ve already rung in 2010; now it’s time to celebrate the Year of the Tiger. Northern Huaxia Chinese School, the Chinese language and culture school that meets at VHS on Saturday afternoons, will have a Chinese New Year celebration on Saturday, February 6 in the Verona High School cafeteria. NHXCS Principal Bin Cai says...
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Laning Food Pantry Program Goes Town-Wide
What can a kid do to feed the hungry? Quite a lot, if it’s a kid in Verona. In February 2008, Laning Avenue‘s SCA started a program to collect food for the Human Needs Food Pantry in Montclair. Laning kids were given a list of edibles that Human Needs needed and they brought them...
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County Tourneys This Weekend For Wrestling, Girls Hoops
Two Verona teams will participate in Essex County tournaments this weekend. The wrestling team, which just clinched at least a tie for a conference championship with its decisive win over Millburn this week, will start the pre-quarterfinals of the County tournament this evening at 6 p.m. in West Orange. Junior Colin Farawell has been...
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Mayor’s Charity Event Set For May 23
Mayor Teena Schwartz has announced that the honorees for the 17th annual Verona Mayor’s Charity Affair will be former town council member Santi Condorelli, real estate and scout leader Steve Janett, unofficial Verona historian and Hilltop conservation advocate Kurt Landsberger, special education advocate C.H.I.L.D., Investors Savings Bank and the Verona Environmental Commission. This year’s...
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Lawmaker Seeks Easier Property Tax Appeals
It may be of no comfort now to the Verona residents who got slammed in the revaluation, but a south Jersey lawmaker plans to introduce a bill to make the tax appeal process easier–or at least easier to start. According to NewJerseyNewsroom.com, the bill that Assemblyman Domenick DiCicco (R-Gloucester) will unveil in early February...
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“Gentlemen Ten” Strike Again
Some of you may have heard of a new group at the high school this year. No, it’s not a variation of Punk or Emo, and it doesn’t involve tattoos or chains. But it certainly is different: A group of senior boys, led by Jack Fitzpatrick and Mack Kirby, decided that rather than spend...
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