Season two of “Jerseylicious” comes to a close tonight, and there’s more drama ahead for Verona business owner Anthony Lombardi, one of the stars of the reality TV show. Tonight’s episode has Lombardi’s Anthony Robert Salon competing against teams from the Gatsby (the salon at the center of this hairdo hurricane) and the self-styled...
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Fred Goode was playing with your heads this week. If he given you even a smidgen of the shot on our home page today, you would have instantly guessed the Richfield Regency. In the 45 years that the Richfield has been part of Verona’s Bloomfield Avenue landscape, everyone in town has probably been there...
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The Essex County Office of Small Business Development has partnered with the Surety & Fidelity Association of America to provide a free, bonding readiness program to small, women and minority-owned businesses in New Jersey. The Essex County Bonding Readiness Program is an eight-week, comprehensive business development course, followed by one-on-one counseling sessions with surety...
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It was a lucky guess backed by a lot of Verona history. That, ladies and gentlemen (and children of all ages) was how Beth Shorten decided that the winning answer to this week’s contest was Charles Bahr & Son. “My family and Bahr go way back,” says Shorten. “I’ve been told that my grandfather,...
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From Monday to Friday, the dominant language at Verona High School is English, or the text-messaging variant thereof. But on Saturdays, you’ll need to know Mandarin to do well in class. For the last five years, VHS has rented space to the Northern Huaxia Chinese School. The private school started in Bloomfield before moving...
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I have a seven year old who steals food. When annoyed, he is prone to throwing dirty socks around the living room. And when he’s fed up with how much time I spend working on the computer … he barks, long and loud. What, you didn’t really think I was talking about the kids,...
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Yes, there are a lot of salons and nail parlors in Verona. But they each have a devoted clientele, and so it was that Diane Polledri knew not only that the Where In Verona contest was at Classic Look Salon this week, but that it was the station belonging to the stylist who cuts...
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A lot of people spend their whole lives in Verona, sometimes following parents and grandparents who lived here their whole lives too. But folks do move to town and in 1985, Jeff Shilling was one of those newcomers, moving here from New Providence with his wife, who is from Summit. The Shilling’s son and...
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Gerry Wagman is closing Verona Camera at the end of December, and for the past two weekends he has been selling off everything in the store. You’ll have one more chance to shop at Verona Camera this Sunday, December 19, again in late afternoon. The store is located at 626 Bloomfield Avenue.
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Miele’s Italian Restaurant has anchored the western end of Bloomfield Avenue in Verona since 1954, so you think people would have had a chance to memorize its decor by now. You’d think it wouldn’t have taken them four days to figure out the location of week 21 of the Where In Verona contest. It...
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