Archive for March, 2010
Get a Sneak Peek At ‘Jerseylicious’
A new reality TV show starts on the Style Network tonight, and as we’ve told you, it features Anthony Lombardi, owner of the Anthony Robert Salon in Verona. From the looks of the clip below, Anthony is going to have his hands full. The Style Network is channel 160 on Verizon and channel 50 on [...]
Anne R. Bevilacqua
Mrs. Anne Rose Bevilacqua died on March 12, 2010 at her home in Naperville, Illinois. Services and entombment took place in Boca Raton, Florida. Born in Caldwell, Mrs. Bevilacqua lived in Verona, Caldwell, Montclair and Highland Beach, Fl. prior to moving to Naperville, Ill. 8 years ago. She is the wife of the late Albert [...]
‘Pub Theology’ Returns To O’Neil’s
Remember how Norm, Cliff, Frasier and Sam used to solve the world’s problems over the bar in “Cheers”? Now you have the chance to do the same on a local scale. On Wednesday, March 24 at 7:30 p.m., the Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit will be reconvening its “Pub Theology” group at O’Neil’s Restaurant [...]
Hilltop Apartments Now Leasing
If you haven’t yet noticed Verona’s newest street, White Rock Road, and its traffic light on Bloomfield Avenue just past the Community Center, the balloons on the sign there announcing the opening of the Highlands at Hilltop might have caught your eye. Whether or not Verona residents consider the completion of the first phase of [...]
House Snooping: Claridge Condos
For $2 million or so in Manhattan, you could probably find a two-bedroom, two-bath condo about 1,600 square feet in size. It would have a doorman, a washer/dryer in a new-ish kitchen, one or two larger closets and, if you are really lucky, a view of the sky partially unobstructed by a neighboring building. For [...]
Be A Geesepeace Volunteer
Essex County is offering two, free workshops to teach residents and municipal officials how to curb the Canada goose population here safely and humanely. Dubbed “Geesepeace”, the program will train participants in humane methods to reduce births in the flocks and how to interact safely with geese. Both sessions will be held on Wednesday, March [...]
Crock It! Beef Burgundy
Any recipe that involves a full bottle of wine and relatively easy prep-work is going to get my attention. So in a world where plans changed and we unexpectedly didn’t get home from gymnastics until after 5 p.m. having dinner ready upon entry was great. This recipe took me about 35 minutes of prep work [...]
Why We Made Some Changes
By now, you’ve noticed that MyVeronaNJ.com looks a bit different this morning. We’ve come a long way in our first three months, and, last night, we took some steps to get the site ready for its next phase of growth. We’ve published almost 400 stories since last December. But the old site made it hard [...]
Make A Bonnet For Easter
When I was a kid, my mom always made sure my sisters and I had a new hat for Easter. Sometimes that meant an adventurous trip to “the City” to get supplies in the Hat District. Sometimes (like the infamous yellow hats), they were creations better left forgotten. But making them was always a lot [...]
VHS Jazz Band To Perform At W. Orange Club
Now this is a reason to go out on a Monday night: The VHS jazz band, Verona Jazz & Beyond, will be performing at Cecil’s Jazz Club in West Orange on Monday, April 5 at 7:30 p.m. Membership in Jazz & Beyond is by audition only and even if I weren’t a jazz band grad [...]