Section: Fun
Are You A Tough Mudder?
Verona has lots of athletes. We have tri-athletes and at least one Ironman that we know of. And now this: Tough Mudders. Say what? A Tough Mudder is a 7- to 12-mile trail run over hilly and generally muddy ground followed by more than a dozen military-style obstacles, designed by British Special Forces. Obstacles like [...]
Outdoor Christmas Lighting Safety Tips
We want you to decorate your house to the max to show it off in our Holiday Lights contest. But we also want you to be safe. George Anderson, the Verona electrician who has provided us with so many day trip ideas this year (and he’s got one more for the holiday season that we’ll [...]
Where In Verona Is It? It’s Adrenaline Fitness
We issued a challenge on Monday, Verona, and you rose to it. By paying attention to the details in a closely cropped picture of two tires, Kevin Toscano (who pays a lot of attention to details in his roofing and construction business) realized that the location of this week’s Where In Verona contest wasn’t any [...]
Where In Verona Is It? Week 19
In every movie in which he portrays Indiana Jones, Harrison Ford winds up angering the gods and paying the price. Consider this week your Harrison Ford moment. Fred Goode, who takes all the photos for the Where In Verona contest, has decided that you’ve been coming up with the answers too quickly. And he has [...]
Gingerbread House Workshop
If you’re planning on entering Essex County’s Sustainable Gingerbread Home and Habitat Contest but you’re short on space in your own kitchen, consider going to the Essex County Environmental Center next Saturday, December 4, and assembling it there. The event runs from 10 a.m. to noon there and it’s free. Some materials will be provided, [...]
Turtle Back Switches On Holiday Lights
The fourth annual Essex County Holiday Lights Spectacular kicks off tonight at Turtle Back Zoo. For the next three weekends the lights will be on for Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights from 5 to 9 p.m. On December 17, the light show will switch to an every day schedule and run through January 2, except [...]
Design Day At The Newark Museum
There aren’t any malls along the eastern end of Route 280, so you might be able to take the kids for an afternoon of activities at the Newark Museum without much trouble. On Friday, November 26, from noon to 4:40 p.m., the museum is holding Design Day. Just pay the museum’s regular suggested admission ($10 [...]
Where In Verona Is It? The Library!
The CD player was a mystery on Monday, and we had lots of thoughts on where that lock in Tuesday’s photo might be, including the police station. Fred Goode, who takes all the pictures for this contest, doesn’t even tell me exactly where in a particular location all the shots were taken, so I was [...]
Holiday Lights Contest!
The wreath lights have gone up along Bloomfield Avenue and we’re beginning to see twinkles on Verona houses, too. This weekend, after the turkey is history and Black Friday is blitzed, the decorating will begin in earnest. And so will MyVeronaNJ’s Holiday Lights contest. As we did with our Halloween House contest, we’re going to [...]
Where In Verona? Week 18
We’ve been to official Verona, we’ve been to Verona schools, sports venues, businesses and Verona restaurants. All of that, however, is water under the bridge in Verona Park because this week, we are someplace else. Where is it? That’s for us to know and you to discover. Put your guess in the Comments Field below, [...]