Prudential New Jersey Properties is bringing a big shredder to its Verona office opposite Verona Park on Saturday, 24. The Shred-it truck will be there from 10 a.m. to noon and there is no charge to have it chew through as much of your paper files as you need to. The event is at...
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If you feel the need to channel your inner Tarzan and Jane, you’ll have your chance beginning this weekend over at Turtle Back Zoo. Essex County is opening something called the Treetop Adventure Course, a series of challenges and obstacles all 35 feet or so above the ground. Let’s be clear–this is not a...
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Back in the days when I worked for big media, I didn’t pay much attention to the companies that advertised in the publications I wrote for. Journalists weren’t ever supposed to ask about the business side of the operations, and the ad sales staff was never allowed to so much as breathe in the...
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Hobcaw Cafe is looking to sell out on whole maple salmons before the weather gets too gnarly. The store, which is at 20 Grove Avenue off Bloomfield, will be open until 3 p.m. Saturday.
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Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr. (center) announced on Monday, August 22, that the TD Charitable Foundation has made a commitment to contribute $80,000 over the next four years to support educational programs and events at Essex County Turtle Back Zoo in West Orange and the Essex County Environmental Center in Roseland, and...
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Women to Women, a networking group based in Verona, will hold its next meeting on Wednesday, August 31, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. This meeting will promote the work of five local artists: Sarah Canfield, Amy Caro, Mimi Kabshura, Lulis Leal and Audrey Perel. Some of the proceeds of the artists’ sales will benefit...
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You almost need a hard hat to walk the north side of Bloomfield Avenue between Gould Street and Grove Avenue. The steps are being rebuilt at Garden State Community Bank (the old Penn Federal location), but the big work is several steps west. The basement for John McEvoy’s new restaurant has been dug and...
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Paul Ruderman has been tapped to head a new emergency management division at LiveProcess, a Verona-based provider of healthcare emergency management software. Ruderman, who has served the company as vice president of operations since 2005, will now serve as vice president of operations and emergency management. “It’s a way for us to formalize a...
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No, not us. MyVeronaNJ.com is building a Twitter following, but we’re still not anywhere close to that level. Anthony Lombardi, however, is. The owner of Anthony Robert Salon on Bloomfield Avenue has, as of this morning, 18,266 followers of his Twitter feed, and he has one small request: To reach 20,000 followers by Labor...
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Sometime after the second conference call on Friday the puppy decided that the world was not paying enough attention to her. She took her frustration out on the nearest inanimate object, a pair of prescription sunglasses. So today’s shout-out goes to Marlene Marino of Verona Opticians. Somehow, in the five minutes between the distressed...
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