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VHS To Hold Spring Concert May 12
The Verona High School Music Department will hold its 2010 Spring Concert on Wednesday, May 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the VHS auditorium. The concert is free and Band Director Erik Lynch is promising a night of “passionate music making”. The evening will feature performances by the VHS Jazz Choir, Concert Choir, and Concert Band. [...]
House Snooping: 23 Mountainview
UPDATE: This house has been taken off the market. Charm is an over-used word. It’s lost so much punch that there’s a temptation to surround it with quotation marks–A House With “Charm”–except that that would bring out the grammar police at the The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks (a funny read when you get the [...]
Oster, Rosa Twins Square Off Again
Verona and Cedar Grove have been baseball rivals for decades. Dave Oster has raced against identical twins Joe and Jim Rosa for a far shorter period of time, but the match-ups are every bit as interesting. The Verona High School senior was on the track with the West Windsor-Plainsboro North High School juniors this past [...]
Selling Your House? Get An Inspection
Now that Verona’s residential real estate market is showing signs of life again, the last thing you need is a surprise that will turn your deal into a zombie. And nothing keeps the surprises at bay like a home inspection. Once just a tool for buyers, home inspections are increasingly being used by sellers to [...]
Signs Of Summer
The warm weather at the end of spring break was a sure sign of things to come, as well as things ending. The school year is almost over, the pool is only about 4 weeks away from opening, and soon there will be fireflies in my yard. The summer brings with it days at the [...]
Verona’s Newest Eagle Scout
Mark Bovich, a junior at St. Peter’s Prepatory School in Jersey City, has achieved the highest rank in the Boy Scouts of America, the Eagle Scout, and will be honored at a ceremony at Notre Dame Church in North Caldwell on May 23. To become an Eagle Scout, a life rank, a boy scout must [...]
Days Trips: The Bronx Zoo
If your only reason for not going to the Bronx Zoo is its location, we have one word for you: fuggedaboutit. Unless you plan on spending $288 for a round-trip ticket to San Diego, there is no better urban zoo anywhere in the United States. (Sorry, Turtle Back.) And, if the traffic gods are with [...]
Dinosaurs Invade Newark
There haven’t been real dinosaurs stomping through New Jersey for some time now, but it will feel as if they’re back this Sunday at the Newark Museum‘s Third Annual Dinosaur Day. That’s because this year’s Dinosaur Day will feature two life-sized, animatronic Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaurs. The robotic dinosaurs, an adult and a juvenile similar to [...]
It’s Plant Sale Time
By this weekend, your yard will have dried out enough to take advantage of one of my favorite activities of spring: plant sales. The sales are a great way to pick up native plants that aren’t commonly available in garden centers and plants already acclimatized for our area. The tomato plants that I got last [...]
Verona Kids Star In Caldwell Show
Whether you’re spending spring break near or far, this might be a fun way to end the week: Watching two Verona High School students perform in Fiddler on the Roof. Sean McGinley will have the featured role of Tevye, the milkman. Michael Hardenberg is cast as Fyedka, a young Russian farmer. The musical will be [...]