Articles By: Julia Martin Langan
Meet Of Champions Marks End of Track Season
This was a banner season for the VHS track team, with both boys and girls winning the Super Essex Championship and the Girls taking the Sectional title. Not surprisingly, the team produced a bumper crop of champions, seven athletes from Verona who competed in the Meet of Champions in South Plainfield this weekend. Unfortunately, Dave [...]
Feeling Pampered At Avenue Bistro Pub
With neighboring Montclair, the restaurant capital of New Jersey, luring local diners with its plethora of choices, Verona eateries have to do something different, and do it well. Avenue Bistro Pub, a sunny, spacious year-and-a-half-old establishment at 558 Bloomfield Avenue near Lakeside in the old Mangia Questa space, distinguishes itself from the competition by making [...]
Elderly Man Drives Car Into Brook
Residents of Hathaway Lane were scratching their heads today at the sight of a sedan that landed, nose down, in a ravine at the end of their street. The driver of the car, an 86-year-old Verona resident who apparently was confused about his whereabouts, was unhurt, and his car had only minor damage. A police [...]
Changes To Rec’s Summer Buddy Program
The Special Buddy program, a service offered by the Verona Recreation Department that matches special needs children with volunteer counselors in the town’s summer playground program, will operate a little differently this year. According to Recreation Department Director Jim Cunningham, due to budget constraints, the program will no longer have a dedicated, paid outside coordinator. [...]
Ruggiero Trades Coaching For Codey Arena Job
After 13 years as Verona Girls’ Tennis coach, 11 as coach of the Verona-Glen Ridge Hockey team, and eight as Verona Boys’ Tennis coach, Stephen Ruggiero has stepped down to accept the position of director and head of marketing for the Richard J. Codey Arena in West Orange. Ruggiero has also resigned from his position [...]
Junior Women’s Club Welcomes New Members And Officers
The Verona Junior Woman’s Club recently installed and welcomed its newest members and the 2010-2011 executive board. The board includes Sue Fenker-Warner, federation secretary; Stacy Theilmeier, recording secretary; Nanci Shorter, corresponding secretary; Doreen Arminio and Melissa Symczak, membership vice presidents; Robin Wallace, first vice president; and Joanna Breitenbach and Lisa Golebieski, co-presidents. The newly installed members [...]
Judge Denies TCI’s Appeal In Bid To Expand
It’s been five years since The Children’s Institute, a school for special needs children on Sunset Avenue, filed its application with the Verona Zoning Board to expand its building and enrollment. And it’s been almost two years since the town board voted unanimously against that expansion and TCI filed an appeal in Essex County Superior [...]
Seven Verona Athletes Advance To Meet Of Champions
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 third [...]
Boys’ Tennis Season Ends In Mercer County
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 and [...]
Conference Picks Boys’ Lax All-Stars
Five Verona lacrosse players have been named to the Super Essex Conference All-Conference team. Junior midfielder Greg Schiffenhaus and junior defenseman Jack Denton were named to the First Team and junior Colin Farawell, who led all midfielders in the conference in scoring, was selected for the second team. Senior Ian Garsman and junior Cooper Neale [...]