Over the summer, we brought you several day trip ideas from Verona electrician George Anderson and his wife Cathy. Their latest newsletter has some fun ways for you to get in the holiday spirit, if you’re not there already. The Andersons like the Holiday Lights Spectacular at Turtle Back Zoo, which we told you...
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We know how you feel big guy, and we don’t even have elves to fall back on.
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Fred Goode is going to start taking photos for the holiday lights contest tonight. So if you want your house to be in it, you’ve got to send us an e-mail today to let us know where your house is. Remember this is a contest about outdoor decoration just like our Halloween House contest....
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The Verona Recreation Department’s Teen Recreation Committee is going to be holding a free movie night for the middle school crowd this Friday, December 17 at the Verona Community Center Ballroom. The movie is the classic “Home Alone”, and the doors open at 6:45 p.m. The event is open to all students in grades...
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Week 21 already. How the time flies. Twenty-one conjures up a lot of connotations: an exclusive club, a game of chance, a movie drama. Chances are, it will take drama and luck for you to join the exclusive club of MyVeronaNJ baseball cap owners. So take a look at Fred Goode‘s latest handiwork and...
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There’s wood stacked up for the boathouse fireplace and a sheet of ice on Verona Park Lake. It’s enough to support the water bottles, branches and stray bits of Halloween pumpkin that have blown onto the lake, but not enough for skaters–just yet. Sunday’s expected weather could mess things up, but sooner or later,...
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When someone mentions the Bronx, you most likely think of the Yankees or maybe the Bronx Zoo or Fordham University. But what a lot of people may not realize is that for the last 19 years, the New York Botanical Garden has hosted an annual Holiday Train Show, and it’s only 28 miles away....
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By now you’re probably wondering how Kathleen Seubert does it. How has she won the MyVeronaNJ baseball cap for so many of the Where In Verona contests? (Yes, she did it again.) It’s not by following Fred Goode around, though we recently figured out that Fred coaches one of Kathleen’s kids in lacrosse. Kathleen...
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Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade definitely is a draw for people in Verona. Ann Gault volunteered as a balloon handler last year, realizing a life-long dream, and we know of several families that wake up very early every Thanksgiving to get to Manhattan for the best viewing spot. Natalie Wertz saw the parade from a...
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Maybe you can’t get into Manhattan right now to take the kids to an Off-Broadway show. Maybe you don’t have to. Cafe Eclectic in Montclair is hosting a special, free family night this Wednesday, December 8 featuring the cast of ImaginOcean. This is the kids’ puppet show that counts Verona’s own James Wojtal Jr....
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