Archive for October, 2010
Verona Tops Newark Academy
The score was lopsided, but there was nothing uneven about Verona’s performance as the Hillbillies beat Newark Academy 42-6 in a home game on Saturday. The Neale-Kaslander-Rosenfeld machine once again worked to maximum efficiency. Cooper Neale got two touchdowns for Verona before the first quarter was even over. Quarterback Matt Rosenfeld had 129 yards on [...]
Scouting Days At Essex Environmental Center
If you’re planning a staycation for the coming long weekend and you have scouts in the family, you should know about what’s being planned at the Essex County Environmental Center. On November 4 and 5, there will be activities at the Environmental Center exclusively for scouts, the boys on the 4th and the girls on [...]
Halloween House Winner
We never expected the competition for the right to be the MyVeronaNJ Halloween House 2010 to be as intense as it was. But with 2,215 votes entered, the winner of this year’s contest is … the Nguyen family at 35 Woodland Avenue with 1,094 votes, or 49.39% of the total. The Elliott family of 35 [...]
Halloween 2010
They’ve carved pumpkins. They’ve created costumes. And later today, they will be at your door demanding tricks or treats, but really just hoping for the latter. This year’s Halloween in Verona included the time-honored elementary school parades and a new event: A pumpkin-carving contest for the middle-school crowd, run by Dana Visentin and the Verona [...]
Marching Band Heads To Championship
The Verona High School Marching Maroon and White performed at half-time at today’s home Hillbillies football game against Newark Academy. Tomorrow, the band goes to Allentown, Pa. for the U.S. Scholastic Band Association’s Northern States championship. The event starts at 10 a.m., but Verona won’t take the field until 8:18 p.m. And here’s a special [...]
Haunted House? Head To Forest
It’s been a well-kept secret in the Forest Avenue section of Verona for a decade: A haunted house. Shhhh. The Fogarty family at 72 South Prospect (corner of Pease) puts its all into Halloween decorating and creates what our tipster says is a “seriously spooky” haunted house. (We’re showing the house in daylight to not [...]
Riker Hill Art Park Open House
The annual open house at the Riker Hill Art Park in Livingston is next Saturday and Sunday, November 6 and 7 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days. If you’ve never been up to Riker Hill, it was–somewhat bizarrely–a missile base in the 1950s before being bought by Essex County 30 years ago for [...]
Preserve It! Pickled Beets
I was at Matarazzo’s farm stand in Caldwell buying up all the apples I could to make and preserve applesauce when I started perusing the beets. I learned that beets are “coming up” and now is the time to buy. One of my favorite items in a salad is beets, but for some reason I [...]
Calvary Lutheran To Hold New Food Drive
Calvary Lutheran Church will hold the second round of its “Can It With Calvary” food drive next week. If you live on the south side of Verona, Calvary parishioners will be putting a doorknob hanger on your door with details sometime between November 5 and 9. You can drop off food in Calvary’s collection boxes [...]
Transition On The Avenue
The Chase bank in the center of Verona is surrounded in scaffolding to have its bricks re-pointed, the Prudential plaza is getting a makeover and now this: The Wachovia bank at 599 Bloomfield Avenue is finally being re-branded as Wells Fargo. Wachovia was sold to Wells Fargo in the wake of the 2008 stock market [...]