For the first time ever, a Verona wrestler has won the region championship. Yesterday Colin Farawell, the tournament’s second seed, defeated top-seed Michael Scrozzo of Queen of Peace in the title bout, 4-2, in the 189 weight class. Farawell came back from a 2-0 deficit in the second period against Scrozzo to score a...
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Verona music teacher Max Morden just pinged us to say that the Gramercy Brass Principal Quintet is performing this afternoon at the First Presbyterian Church on Fairview Ave in Verona. The concert is free and begins at 2:30 p.m. Morden says he’ll be playing “lots of different trumpets” and even a little guitar. Did...
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Everyone knew it was going to be intense. First were the stakes: A win for Verona meant a share of the Conference title. Then there was the revenge factor: Verona’s only blemish on its conference record was a heartbreaking 1-point loss to the MKA Cougars on their home court earlier in the season. Adding...
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To celebrate Sing With Your Child Month 2010, Music Together is creating a music video montage of its signature “Hello Song” from clips submitted by families from around the world. The company is inviting people to record themselves or their family singing the “Hello Song” and send it in for posting on YouTube. When...
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Verona got creative in the snow yesterday. Emma Zalewski built this snow dragon with her brother and Ian and their dad, Tom Zalewski. You can see the finishing touches that Ian added, and other snowmen and snow sculptures, in the Snow Creatures album on MyVeronaNJ’s Facebook page. Have a snow creature that the world...
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Though MyVeronaNJ is focused on Verona, there are things going on in our neighboring towns and across Essex County that bear watching. So we’re introducing a new weekly column to help you stay on top of some of these developments. This is how the tough economy and municipal budget deficits are playing out across...
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Due to Thursday and Friday’s big snow, some big games for Verona teams were postponed. The worst of the weather is behind us now and we have the revised Saturday schedule. Friday evening’s girls basketball game against Montclair Kimberly Academy to decide the league championship is now scheduled for Saturday at 11 a.m. at...
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We’ll confess: We thought it was a bit nuts last week when an Essex County legislator proposed punishing snowplow drivers who plow in driveways that have already been cleared. How else, after all, are we going to keep our streets passable? But watching our neighbors shovel today for the fourth and fifth time since...
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So our appeal for information about what happened to the Verona Inn was answered, and by a very authoritative source: The bar’s long-time manager, John Mac Evoy. He tells us that the Verona Inn closed last June after a fully loaded car carrier drove over and collapsed the property’s aging septic system, and the...
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The crossing guard stationed near FN Brown Elementary School was hit yesterday around 1 pm as he concluded his shift crossing students and parents leaving school early due to the snow storm. According to Police Chief Doug Huber, the guard, whose name he could not specify due to medical privacy regulations, was crossing the...
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