Archive for June, 2010
Three Girl Laxers Earn SEC Honors
Three Verona lacrosse players earned All-Conference honors, as Athletic Director Gary Farishian announced at Tuesday’s Board of Education meeting. Senior Emily Fitzpatrick, junior DonnaJo Dinorcia and sophomore Julianne Mascera were selected to the first team for the Super Essex conference. You can see the athleticism, toughness and determination that earned them the awards in these [...]
‘Toy Story’, Our Story
My friends and I arrived at the AMC Loews Theaters at 11:45 p.m. on June 17, anxiously awaiting the 12:01 premiere of Disney Pixar’s “Toy Story 3″. As we looked around the theater, we noticed hardly one person in the room was under the age of seventeen, and that the majority of the viewers were [...]
Learn To Paint With Watercolors
The Essex County Environmental Center in Roseland is holding a class on painting with watercolors on Saturday, June 26 at 10 a.m. Geared for people ages 16 and up, the class will teach you about a seasonal flower and how to draw and paint it. You’ll get to the picture you create, fully matted and [...]
Brookdale Bikes For Brain Research
Brookdale Avenue School students will be riding their bikes and scooters to school on Monday, June 21–and it’s all for a good cause. The kids will getting to school under their own power to raise money for Brains on Bikes. The charity was created by New Jersey native Anne Feeley, who was diagnosed with a [...]
Stephanie Colon Is First Team All-Conference
Verona shortstop Stephanie Colon, a senior, earned first-team Super-Essex conference honors for Softball. This photo by MyVeronaNJ photographer Bo Kirby shows Colon in action earlier this season.
Jay Mohr On Father’s Day
Jay Mohr has written a book and it’s the last thing you might expect from the sharp-edged comic: parenting. “No Wonder My Parents Drank: Tales From A Stand-Up Dad” was published by Simon & Schuster on May 11, and it made the Los Angeles Times best-seller list on June 10. Ignore the first part of [...]
Crock It! Creamed Corn
I had 7 ears of corn. I knew they were only going to last so long in my refrigerator and I knew they wouldn’t all be cooked immediately, so I decided that my Crock Pot would be a good place to experiment with all that corn. I found several online recipes for Creamed Corn, or [...]
New Cafeteria Vendor For HBW, VHS
Beginning in September, Verona will have a new food supplier for the middle and high school cafeterias. Superintendent Charles Sampson announced at this week’s Board of Education meeting that the district has been losing money on the present provider, Aramark. The new provider, Pomptonian Food Service of Fairfield, N.J., is “one of the finest” companies [...]
VHS Graduation Is Thursday
Verona High School seniors become VHS alumni on Thursday evening at 6:30 on the football field–weather permitting. The extended forecast is calling for “a chance of thunderstorms” on Thursday; if it rains, the ceremony will be held in the gym. Last year, threatening skies turned sunny just in time for the ceremony; let’s hope for [...]
Ariane Duarte’s Grilled Asian Chicken
The weather is going to be sunny and warm this Father’s Day weekend. That should make it just right for a grilled chicken recipe that recently appeared on DinnerTool, a Web site that Ariane Duarte writes for Proctor & Gamble when she’s not cooking at CulinAriane, the Montclair restaurant that she runs with her husband [...]