Articles By: Virginia Citrano
Next Year’s School Calendar Approved
The Board of Education has approved the calendar for the 2011-2012 school year. School resumes after summer vacation on September 7, and we once again have a full week for February break. Between the half days and full days off, November is the usual wash. The full calendar is here.
DiVincenzo Outlines State Of The County
Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr., seen here with state Sen. Nia Gill (left) and Lori Grifa, commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, presented his eighth State of the County Address at the Essex County Hospital Center on Tuesday, February 15. He reprised the budget presentation that he made four weeks [...]
Terry’s Owner Thanks Verona For Support
We have gotten this note from Les Gwyn-Williams, the owner of Terry’s Drugs: On Thursday, February 10, the path of my life changed quicker than I could imagine. I survived a terrible plane accident, where I was alone and lived to tell. There was only one seat on that plane that day and I was [...]
Obituaries: Elaine J. Wands
Ms. Elaine J. Wands, 75, died on Sunday, February 13, 2011 at Mountainside Hospital in Glen Ridge. A memorial service will be announced for a future date. Born in Montclair, she was raised in Verona, lived in Montclair and returned to Verona 20 years ago. Ms. Wands was a secretary at the Verona–Cedar Grove Times [...]
Verona Grandma Goes To The Toy Fair
Marion Conway is a Verona grandma who blogs about being … a Verona grandma. She’s blogging this week from the American International Toy Fair, a mammoth trade show in New York City that manufacturers use to convince retailers that they have the hot toys for the year. If you want to find out what they [...]
Grim News On School Budget
Charles B. Sampson, Verona’s superintendent of schools, sent out a letter yesterday about the budget, and it is sobering. Because of the state-mandated 2% cap on tax increases, Verona will need to cut $500,000 to $700,000 out of its 2011-2012 budget. Verona had to slash $1.4 million from its 2010-2011 budget because of a sharp [...]
Vacation Week Lego Club
School will be out next week, but not Legos. On Monday, February 21, you can bring your kids to the Essex County Environmental Center at 4 p.m. for the 4-H Lego Club. The center, which is in Roseland, says the club is for children in grades 3 through 6. It meets in Garibaldi Hall, which [...]
Where In Verona Is It? The New Subway!
While Don Johnston was serving in Iraq, there were few touches of home. There were, however, Subway sandwiches. No, really. Under a U.S. Army plan to boost troop morale, the franchiser had opened its sandwich restaurants in American military bases. “I tasted a meatball sub there and it tasted exactly it did over here,” says [...]
F.N. Brown Tricky Tray Coming Up
Between winter and spring in Verona there is another season: Tricky Tray season, and it is time to think about buying tickets. The F.N. Brown elementary school Tricky Tray will be held on Wednesday, March 30, from 6 to 11 p.m. and tickets go on sale to the general public tomorrow. The F.N. Brown shindig [...]
Filing Deadline For Town Council Election Nears
If you are thinking of running for a seat on the Verona Town Council this spring, you have just one month left to complete all the requirements and file. Town Hall has packets that describe everything you need to do, whether you intend to run for a four-year term or the remaining two years of [...]