Archive for February, 2012
Laning Student Heads To State Spelling Bee
Chloe Mathewson will be heading to the state spelling championship after a third-place finish in the Central Regional Spelling Bee held on February 25. Mathewson, pictured above in white, is a fourth grade student at Laning Avenue elementary school. She got to the regional bee after winning the Junior Woman’s Club of Verona’s local bee [...]
Senior Athlete Of The Week: Samantha Intili
Pole vaulting is more than your ordinary leap of faith. You’ve got to charge down a narrow track, plant a pole that weighs just a fraction of your weight and hope that it will catapult you safely over a bar suspended several feet in the air. Without focus, and a strong core, it’s just not [...]
Sneak A Peek At ‘Little Shop Of Horrors’
“Little Shop of Horrors” starts tomorrow night at Verona High School and MyVeronaNJ.com brought its video camera to the dress rehearsal yesterday to bring you a preview. The song in the video below is called “It’s Just The Gas” and it really is just a gas to watch (as is the whole show!). You’ll have [...]
School Budget Avoids Major Cuts
With a little bit of extra aid from Trenton, a little bit of retirement and a little bit of restructuring, the Verona Board of Education presented a preliminary budget at its meeting Tuesday night that avoids major cuts to education and a major increase to taxpayers. For now. Board member Joseph Bellino said the 2012-2013 [...]
Middle Schoolers Talk Teamwork
Members from H.B. Whitehorne Middle School’s The Best and Dream Team Clubs attended the Verona Municipal Alliance Committee’s February 16 meeting and gave an overview of their clubs’ activities, which included a food drive, Red Ribbon Week, No-Name Calling Week and tutoring senior citizens in computer use.
Full-Day K Makes Some Headway
The Verona Board of Education approved a resolution at its meeting on Tuesday night that puts full-day kindergarten up for a vote in Verona this November. The ballot question will ask voters to approve spending $140,000 in addition to the school budget to expand Verona’s kindergarten program to what has been called the “Roseland model”. [...]
Michael Bartell Wins Teen Arts Jam
The 7th Annual Teen Arts Jam at Caldwell College awarded Verona High School senior Michael Bartell first place for his self-portrait entitled Envision. Bartell is a member of the VHS chapter of the National Art Honor Society and is a third-year graphic design student in Helene McKelvey-McLaughlin’s class. The award ceremony will be held on [...]
Boys Hoops Wins A Nail-Biter
The Verona boys’ basketball team took home a dramatic 54-46 come from behind victory in the NJSIAA Tournament, First Round, North Jersey, Section 1, Group 1 game over Pompton Lakes. Playing at home on Monday, the Hillbillies led by one point at halftime(22-21) but Pompton Lakes pulled out in front in the third quarter to [...]
Hockey Defeats Mawah As Playoffs Begin
The Verona-Glen Ridge hockey team sent Mahwah High School packing in the first round of the NJSIAA Public B tournament last night, handing the Bergen County team a 5-1 defeat at the Codey Arena in West Orange. Verona sophomore Dylan DeCandia put VGR on the board first, a goal that was promptly answered by Steve [...]
Festa, Greco Head To State Tournament
Verona High School wrestlers Joe Festa and Frankie Greco will be heading to the state wrestling tournament in Atlantic City after securing third place finishes in the Region 4 tournament on Saturday. Greco, who had taken first place in his weight category in the District 13 championship a week earlier, suffered a rare decision against [...]