Section: Business
Where In Verona Was It? A Year In Review
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 a [...]
Small Business Workshop On Social Media
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 Group, [...]
Help Us Win $50,000!
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 go [...]
Star Ledger Revisits CulinAriane
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 wrong [...]
Terry’s Owner Talks About Recovery From Crash
It is a cold winter day. You are getting ready to land your plane at Lincoln Park airport, but your fuel line freezes. You know it’s risky, but you have no choice but to fly into a tree. This was the case for our friend, Les Gwyn-Williams. Most of us know him as the owner [...]
Juniors To Sell Discount Card At Fireworks
The Junior Women’s Club of Verona has created a card that can give you discounts at 22 businesses and members will be selling them at the Verona fireworks at Verona High School on Thursday, June 30. The card, which costs $20, is the size of a credit card and the featured businesses will honor the [...]
Phones Out At Terry’s
There’s some sort of gremlin in the phone lines at Terry’s Drugs. Verizon has been looking into it, but can’t find the source of the problem. So, if you have trouble getting thru on the 239-2200, Les Gwyn-Williams would like you to call the store at 239-1857 . And please pass the word along to [...]
Verona Camera Demolished
The building that had housed Verona Camera has been reduced to a pile of rubble. John McEvoy, who owns the building, had it demolished to make way for a new restaurant that will span the former Verona Camera site and the adjacent building that now houses Sonny’s On The Avenue. McEvoy currently owns Cleveland’s in [...]
A New Era Begins At DiPaolo
Maybe you’ve been into DiPaolo Bakery recently a noticed a new face behind the counter. Younger, taller, but still familiar. Chances are, this new person introduced himself and asked what kind of baked goods you like. Then, he probably told you about some of the new things he’s doing at one of Verona’s oldest food [...]
Just What The Doctor Should Have Ordered
Mark Eulie used to help entrepreneurs. Now, he is one. Three years ago, Eulie hung up his small business banker pinstripes and began to sell a credit card-size device than can fit the electronic medical records for an entire family. Metro Medical’s 911 Medical ID is a slim, 2 gigabyte USB drive that can plug [...]