Archive for January, 2010
Budget Trouble? Not In Verona
By now, you’ve read about the shortfalls in Bloomfield, West Caldwell, Maplewood and Montclair that are leading to talk of furloughs, layoffs and service cutbacks. And you’re probably wondering: What about Verona? We’re doing just fine, thanks. Really. According to Township Manager Joe Martin, Verona ended last year with a surplus in the $1 million [...]
Take Out A Classified And Help Haiti
Here’s a great idea that we’re borrowing from our friends at Baristanet, Montclair’s local blog: Take out a classified ad on MyVeronaNJ anytime between today and the end of January, and we’ll donate 100% of the proceeds to help the recovery effort in Haiti. This is a win-win: You’ll get money for that old swingset, [...]
Veronan Films In The Park
Verona native Maria Vlahos was in Verona Park recently filming a movie for a class at Fairfield University, where she is a student. Entitled “Prince Leonides,” the film, which she is directing, is about a 7-year-old boy who starts a “war” during school recess, in the style of the Spartans he used to read about [...]
Heart Cakes To Aid Fire Families
Here’s a sweet deal for Valentine’s Day: For every heart-shaped ice-cream cake purchased at The Towne Scoop, the management will donate a portion to the two Verona families whose homes at 40 Kenwood Avenue and 6 Woodland Avenue were burned in pre-Christmas fires. “We want to help them in some way,” says store manager Lorrie [...]
They Came For Carmela
While many Americans marked the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday with a national day of service, Veronans turned out in the center of town to help one of their own. Carmela Vece, a long-time volunteer at school and sports events, was severely injured in an auto accident just before Christmas. On Monday, January [...]
Varsity Wrestling On Video
The Verona varsity wrestling team has been having a strong season. On Saturday, in a multi-school meet at VHS, Verona beat Mountain Lakes 56-15 and Waldwick 66-13, but lost to Madison 44-22. There were some great moments in these matches and luckily, we sent one of our Flip cameras to VHS with wrestling mom Sherre [...]
Verona Schools Pass Federal Test
All six Verona public schools met the 2009 targets set by the state of New Jersey under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, according to data released on Thursday by the state Department of Education and reported in The Star-Ledger. More than 800 schools in New Jersey, or more than 36 percent of schools [...]
Verona Schools Test Homework Web Site
If you see your highschooler on what seems to be a social-networking site when you thought she was doing her homework, don’t assume she isn’t. A handful of Verona High School teachers are test-driving a free, Internet-based system that allows students to interact virtually with their teachers and other students for educational purposes. The system [...]
South Mountain Closed Today And Thursday
The trails and parking areas in South Mountain Reservation are closed today, Tuesday, January 19 and they will be closed again on Thursday, January 21, for Essex County’s planned hunt to cull the reservation’s deer population. There will be marksmen in the park from 5:30 a.m. until 8 p.m. The main roads through the park, [...]
Skating: Kudos To The County
Even if you didn’t see the “No Skating” signs at the entrances to Verona Park Saturday morning replacing the more welcoming “Skating Today” signs of last week, you surely surmised that the the 40-plus-degree temps of Saturday and the driving rain of Sunday mean that the skating party’s over–at least for now. Though we haven’t [...]