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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Holly Denton’s Music Together, the kids music activity group, is running a contest that could win you some classes. All you have to do is is create a video showing your family singing a Music Together song (or any song), upload it to her business’ Facebook page and get as many people as you...
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If you want to chat with Kurt Landsberger, you’ve only got a small window of opportunity every week. Though past 90, he still goes to work three days a week. When not in the office, he needs time for writing–weekly newspaper columns and his sixth book. Or time for philanthropy, largely through the foundation...
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Last year, Scott Harrington mapped a 25-mile radius from his Verona home. Then he and his father, Ed Harrington, scoured the area, looking for the perfect location for the business they planned to open, a PostNet franchise. The two, both coming off careers in business sales, wanted the right combination of demographics, demand–and parking....
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Teresa Giudice, one of the stars of “Real Housewives of New Jersey”, will be at DiPaolo Bakery tonight to sign copies of her new cookbook, Fabulicious! DiPaolo’s new owner, Fulvio DiPaolo, will also be serving a little something he baked up from the cookbook. The event runs from 6 to 8 p.m. and DiPaolo...
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We were at Nori Sushi in Montclair over the weekend and owner Camilla Liu brought us a small request along with our white tuna sushi appetizer and Dragon rolls: Vote for Nori in Suburban Essex magazine’s Best of Essex contest. Camilla Liu and her husband Vinnie, who live in Verona, own the Nori restaurants...
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A little over a year ago, sitting in Jack’s Cafe, the MyVeronaNJ.com team was brainstorming ideas to get readers more involved with the site. Our traffic was growing rapidly, and readers were reading lots of stories every day, but they weren’t talking back to us as much as we wanted. Then Fred Goode suggested...
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On Thursday, July 28, County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr. and the Office of Small Business Development and Affirmative Action will host a free seminar called “The New Marketing: Harnessing the Power of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and More” for small, women and minority owned businesses. Guest speakers include Tara Dowdell of The Tara Dowdell...
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Here at MyVeronaNJ.com, we use Quickbooks to help us manage our business. Now, the nice folks at Intuit, the company behind Quickbooks, have invited us to compete for a grant that could earn us up to $50,000. But you have to help. You, our fabulously loyal readers, wonderful subscribers and supportive advertisers, need to...
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The Star Ledger‘s food reporter, Teresa Politano, was recently back at CulinAriane, the Montclair restaurant owned by Verona’s Ariane and Michael Duarte. Here’s a small piece of the story that ran in Friday’s paper: “It would be wrong to compare Duarte to a phoenix; there was no crash and burn. And it would be...
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