Dozens of residents marched down Bloomfield Avenue this morning for Verona’s annual Memorial Day parade. Deputy Mayor Frank Sapienza led the ceremony at the civic center, where he honored the Verona veterans present and two absent guests: His father, a D-Day veteran who was unable to attend this year’s ceremony, and Army Col. John...
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Admission to Turtle Back Zoo will be free on Saturday, June 5, thanks to Essex County’s 8th annual Open House. There will be games and activities for families, as well as information about county programs and services. The zoo will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. While admission is free, there will...
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Join the Verona Sports Boosters on Thursday, June 10, at 6:30 pm at The Villa at Mountain Lakes to recognize the teamwork and individual accomplishments of the VHS athletes and coaches. At the event, senior athletes will receive Sports Boosters Scholarships and special awards, and a video presentation featuring our fall, winter and spring...
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The Verona Track Team had an impressive showing among the top athletes from about 40 schools in the Group championships this weekend in South Plainfield. Verona had two golds: Rebecca Slotkin, who won the pole vault with a height of 10-06 and Dave Oster, who won the Group title in the 3,200-Meter Run for...
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We got this letter from Connie Pifher, who runs the Verona Children’s Fund and is Verona’s unofficial clearinghouse for all sorts of charitable giving. It is both heart-warming and heart-wrenching: Earlier this year an elementary school in Paterson (grades K-5) opened up a library in their school. Children who did not have access to...
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The changes at the Verona Pool this season start before you even get past the badge check. The parking lot has been repaved from top to bottom except for the side lot closest to the former hospital grounds. The paving added a pedestrian walkway that extends from the upper lot to the main gate....
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The Verona High School Alumni Association is selling maroon and white ribbons to celebrate the accomplishments of the Verona High School Class of 2010. The ribbons are $6 each or 2 for $10, and monies raised by the ribbon sale are donated in full to the VHSAA Scholarship Fund each year. The alumni group...
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I have a bean pot. Most people my age don’t have one of those, but I do. I grew up with my mother making baked beans in the oven every Labor day for a big multi-family barbecue. So, naturally I was intrigued: Could a slow cooker produce the same results as my oven and...
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The Verona boys’ tennis team was eliminated in the first round of the Group Tournament yesterday by New Providence High School, 4-1, in Mercer County State Park. New Providence , 20-2, had a couple of exceptionally strong singles players that got Verona into a hole very quickly that they couldn’t struggle out of. First...
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Dave Oster received a scholar-athlete award at the Men of Essex Awards dinner on May 19. Men of Essex was founded in 1958 to foster academics, athletics and community service among youth of Essex County. The Men of Essex choose the awardees based on recommendations of school and sports writers, and references from within...
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