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Class of 2010 graduate Amy Janett had originally assumed she’d attend college in the Northeast. She was interested in a liberal arts college, and there are plenty within a few hours drive of Verona. She’d seen them firsthand two years prior when she’d tagged along on her brother Mark’s college-hunting trips. (He ended up...
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The Verona-based Pushcart Players, a non-profit theater company, has received a grant of $30,263 from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. A total of $15,560,823 in state and federal funding was awarded on Tuesday to nearly 800 arts organizations, programs, projects and artists across the state, including $259,954 for the Montclair Art...
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Despite the change in venue from Town Council chambers, the ballroom at the Verona Community Center was not nearly big enough for the crowds, estimated by the Verona police at totaling about five hundred, who turned out for last night’s meeting on the 2010 budget. The cars filled all the VCC parking lots and...
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Dan Halpern, formerly the director of the Franklin, New Jersey, Middle School Band and Jazz Band, has been hired to replace H.B. Whitehorne music teacher David Tintle, who retired this June after 22 years with Verona’s music program. According to Superintendent Charles Sampson, Halpern has worked as assistant marching band director at Verona High...
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Daisy Bourne, Claire Spardel and Kara Bartow, juniors who study Mandarin at VHS, traveled to China in July. The trip was organized through Rutgers University’s branch of the Beijing-based Confucius Institute. The group, which included students from all over the state and country, toured The Great Wall, Tiananmen Square and The Forbidden City in...
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If you’ve been in Terry’s Drugs recently, you may have noticed a nifty new product on the shelves. Called Cane Stay, it’s a pliable plastic clamp that attaches to a cane and keeps it upright against a wall or on a counter. What you probably didn’t realize, however, is that the product was invented,...
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Zoey Penny of Verona is only 10 months old, but already she’s got her own Web site, profiles in media outlets such as Fox News and The Star-Ledger, and a cadre of doctors at New York Presbyterian Hospital that includes an endocrinologist, cardiologist and audiologist. The reason: Zoey is one of only 16 children in...
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It’s a twist of fate worthy of the Bard himself: This summer, the two Shakespearean plays currently being performed in Central Park showcase the work of not one but two lighting designers from Verona (New Jersey, not Italy). The first is Ken Posner, whose work has illuminated more than 35 Broadway musicals, including Wicked and...
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For rising Verona High School senior Cristiano Queiroz Jr., summer is not a time of relaxation, but a chance to plunge in-depth into his swimming and professional pursuits. From September through July, Queiroz trains and competes with the Cougar Aquatic Team, Montclair Kimberley Academy’s swim team, in addition to working as a model in...
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This torn-up section of sidewalk on Lakeside near Hillside may mean some short-term inconvenience for pedestrians. But it will soon be good news: The location of a pedestrian-activated traffic signal to help those trying to cross Lakeside, which Councilman Jay Sniatkowski has compared to a very dangerous game of chicken. (The town is “close”...
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