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Tonight as in Friday, February 3. Verona High School. Be there or be square. It’s Cops & Rockers 2012, the teen band competition sponsored by the Verona PBA Local 72. Bands like Angmar, Feux Johnny, Fusion, Leo’s Arrow, The Loop and Where Eagles Dare from Verona, and NaH from Little Falls (they have cousins in...
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Consistency counts. In the classroom, on the playing field and, eventually, in the workplace. And when you make a name for yourself as someone that people can count on to get the job done, people take notice. Amanda Cummings is an athlete who has gotten a lot of things done for Verona sports teams,...
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When he was a kid playing for the Verona Eagles and Verona High School Hillbillies, Dan DePalma was a huge fan of the Giants. But he never, ever imagined that he would be a huge fan playing for the Giants and traveling with the Giants to a huge game–the Super Bowl. And yet, on...
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Frank Greco and Joe Festa both came away with first-place wins in the Essex County Wrestling Championship at Codey Arena on Saturday. Paul Scully took second place at 113 pounds, while Tom Cundari took third place at 145 pounds. Greco’s match kept spectators on the edge of their seats through four overtimes. In the...
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Wow. Newsday‘s Tom Rock is putting a lot on the shoulders of Dan DePalma. Rock says, in a story published Friday evening, that the former Verona High School football player “may wind up being one of the Giants’ most important players as they prepare to face the Patriots in Indianapolis next Sunday.” Rock seems...
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Colin Farawell, who set records for Verona High School in both wrestling and lacrosse, has committed to attending Bucknell University in the fall as part of its wrestling program. Farawell is the Hillbillies all-time wrestling victory leader with 123 wins and the only VHS wrestler ever to amass 40 wins in a single season....
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Let’s start with the basics: In the past three years, there has been an increase in certain kinds of crime in Verona. Not major crimes, like homicide and murder, but the crimes that rattle our everyday sense of well-being. Crimes like car theft, larceny and burglary. But there are other basics, too. Whatever the...
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The Verona Health Department has let us know that there has been a second case of whooping cough at H.B. Whitehorne Middle School. The first case of pertussis, as whooping cough is more formally known, was disclosed by the public schools on January 11 ; the second case was confirmed by Verona School Superintendent...
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For the last three years, the scoring on the Verona-Glen Ridge Hockey team has come from a variety of players; some from its Verona High School side, so from its Glen Ridge High School players. VGR’s defense has come from a variety of players too. But more often than not, the final line of...
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The last nine months have been a whirlwind for Dan DePalma. Last May, the Verona High School graduate was invited to work out at Eli Manning’s camp during the lockout. Then the Jets brought him over to their summer camp. DePalma played a pres-season game for the Jets against Philadelphia (see the video), and...
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