School is out, but there are plenty of activities around our area that are still in session, like the week of events at the Newark Museum. From Tuesday to Friday there’s a family event called Miracles Around the World. There will be live music and theater performances, gallery games and scavenger hunts and special...
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Whether Christmas is your holiday or not, we hope you can spend today enjoying the company of family and friends. MyVeronaNJ.com has pulled together some of the lights and cheer of the season in the movie below for you to share with your guests and with any Veronans who are far from home today....
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The Adult Diabetes Support Group and The Community Church of Cedar Grove will be holding a “Culinary Therapy” program presented by Chef Cardie Mortimer on Wednesday, January 11, 2012. Chef Cardie, of Verona, has been a professionally trained culinary chef for over 30 years in addition to having been a professional actor, comedian, producer,...
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We know you’ve all been waiting for it: The day that Santa rides around Verona on a fire truck, thanks to the Verona Fire Department. Well folks, it’s today, Sunday, December 18. According to the VFD’s elf spokesman, the fun will start around 11 a.m. with four Santas in different corners of town. When...
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Christmas means two things to the members of Verona Police P.B.A. Local 72: Getting Christmas trees to needy families and getting Christmas cheer out to special needs schools. On Saturday December 10, 2011, the P.B.A. members held their third annual Christmas Tree Drive. Members bought trees and stands from Hillcrest Farms, loaded them into...
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How do you count down to Christmas? In our house, it’s no surprise that Legos are involved. Even with a plethora of Lego bricks, wheels, random pieces, and unnameable Lego Hero Factory body parts strewn through my house, I’m still just as much a sucker for a good Lego building project as my 8-year-old...
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Talent Night has been a fixture on Verona’s January calendar for the past decade, bringing out singers, dancers, magicians and more for a fun break from winter. If you want to perform in the next show on January 7, 2012, you’ve got to get your application in now. The Spotlight Players Parents Association, which...
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I have spent many years (probably too many to legitimately count) enjoying my holiday shopping. That is partially because I like to shop in the “one for you, one for me” style. Sometimes that involves shoes, sometimes a scarf, and sometimes chocolate. Well, the chocolate part actually starts around Halloween (ok, three weeks prior)...
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Just after Thanksgiving, Turtle Back Zoo kicked off its fifth annual holiday lights show. The last time we attended this event, it was three years ago, and it was much colder! Traipsing around the zoo in the dark was fun for both kids and adults. This year we had an added surprise, and it...
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Twenty-two Brownies of Troop 21221 gathered at Laning Avenue school on Friday to earn their Earth Is Our Home badge and create some environmentally themed gingerbread houses to enter into Essex County’s Sustainable Gingerbread House contest. The meeting kicked off with the girls brainstorming ways they could help make the Earth a better place....
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