Articles By: Virginia Citrano
Prout To Speak On Green Burials
Bob Prout, the owner of the solar-powered Prout Funeral Home in Verona, is going to be speaking on natural burials at the Garden State Greenfest this Friday and Saturday. Prout will give a short history of the natural burial movement in the U.S. and talk about ways to achieve a greener funeral, from choosing a [...]
Pay For College Without Breaking The Bank
Right about now, many students in the Verona High School class of 2012 are thinking about where they are going to go for college in the fall. Their parents, deep into the fifth year of the recession, are thinking about how they are going to pay for it. But Elizabeth Connelly thinks the people who [...]
County Uses Choppers To Count Deer
More than a few residents on the north side of Verona wrote us yesterday to complain that they were woken up over night by the sound of low-flying helicopters. It turns out that they can blame their sleeplessness on Essex County. The choppers were taking infrared pictures of the deer population at the Hilltop to [...]
Richard Citrano: 1928-2012
Richard Citrano believed in family, friends, God and the American dream, and for 83 years he worked for all of them. Citrano died on Thursday, March 15, at home in Verona: The town he called home for nearly his entire life, a town he help build, house sale by house sale, civic project by civic [...]
Should You Worry About Your Water Line?
Early this week, the Verona Police Department sent out an advisory e-mail about a solicitation that some Verona residents have gotten in the mail. The letter, from a company called HomeServe, is about “water line service coverage” and while it’s not a scam, it might not be anything that you want–or need. HomeServe USA is [...]
Senior Athlete Of The Week: Packy Malanga
The name on the Verona High School honor rolls reads “Patrick Malanga”, but to his classmates, basketball and soccer teammates, OLL Youth Group friends and his family, he is, and always will be, “Packy”. And Packy Malanga is this week’s Verona Sports Boosters Senior Athlete of the Week. As co-captain of the 2011-2012 Hillbilly basketball [...]
‘The Godfather’ And Verona
It’s hard to believe, but 40 years ago this week, March 15, 1972, The Godfather had its premiere in New York City. The movie introduced Verona to James Caan and Al Pacino, and it introduced more than a few Verona faces to the world. Jerry Leopoldi, one of the casting agents in charge of filling [...]
Turn Your Clocks Ahead Saturday Night
Let’s all just admit right now that we are going to be grumpy tomorrow. Daylight Savings begins at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 11, and when we push our clocks ahead tonight we will lose an hour of sleep. And no, the fact that we get the hour back in the fall will not make [...]
Seeing Eye Dog Finds New Home
You might remember that, last year at this time, we brought you a story about Specs, a yellow lab that was being raised by a young woman in Verona for the Seeing Eye. It’s a tough job for volunteer and dog, and not every puppy that is in the initial socializing program is accepted into [...]
Welcome The New Verona Inn
Take a look at the sign that went up on Bloomfield Avenue today. No word yet on when we can all pile in for a meal and a beverage.