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Verona loves to read. We have the Verona Public Library, one of the original Carnegie grant libraries, and six public school libraries, where increasingly computers sit alongside books. But above all, we have a lot of readers: There’s a furious trade in books between the adults at the Verona Pool in summer. The pool...
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If you are coming to the Verona Board of Education meeting tonight, plan on showing up a little bit early. The jazz band from H.B. Whitehorne Middle School will be providing some pre-meeting entertainment starting at 7:45 p.m. Tonight’s meeting should also include a BOE decision on whether or not Verona’s public schools will...
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The Star Ledger is up in arms today about a bit of last-minute legislating on the final day of the state legislature’s lame duck session. The bills in question, about legal notices, have attracted our attention too, but for a far different reason: They make sense. Legal notices are those bits of miniscule type...
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You might remember that, a while back, we turned one of Fred Goode‘s photos into a jigsaw puzzle. Well the software behind that little trick has gotten even better, so now we can break the puzzle into smaller and smaller pieces. The first puzzle had 16 pieces; this one has 36. We can even...
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If you are not headed to the Meadowlands to watch the Giants defeat Falcons you might be able to celebrate a victory by finding a new place to live. There are five open houses in Verona this weekend, three new listings (all condos) and yes, still a few price cuts. Open Houses 1 Wedgewood...
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Verona Police are reporting that on Tuesday, January 3, thieves helped themselves to car keys at Platinum Fitness, and to things inside the cars they unlocked. According to Chief Doug Huber, sometime between noon and 6:30 p.m., three different sets of car keys were removed from the locker room at the Pilgrim Plaza gym....
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Former Verona Board of Education employee Alicia McGinley passed away on Wednesday, January 4. The wake is Monday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at O’Boyle Funeral Home in Bloomfield. The funeral will be at Sacred Heart in Bloomfield on Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. The full obituary is in The Star...
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Mr. James J. Caulfield, Sr., died on Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at his home in Verona. A funeral mass will be offered in Our Lady of the Lake Church, Verona on Monday, January 9 at 10 a.m. Visiting in the Prout Funeral Home, 370 Bloomfield Avenue, Verona, on Sunday from 4 to 7 p.m....
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How many apps have you downloaded onto that iPad that Santa brought you? Five, 10, 15? How many of those are making you or your kids smarter? Really smarter, not just better at killing zombies and flinging birds. Mark Mautone has 1,400 apps on his Apple devices, and every one of them stands a...
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Verona’s own Eamonn Ryan and his band, Older Than Dirt, will be performing at O’Neil’s Restaurant and Pub this Saturday, January 7, at 9 p.m. Ryan, who might just be a tad biased, says it’s a “must see show”. The band is going to be covering music from the 50s to today, and Ryan...
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