Section: Kids
Spring Break Softball Clinic
Coach Pete Foster and the Verona High School Softball team are holding a Softball Clinic for grades 2 through 8 during the April break. The clinic will be held at F.N. Brown elementary school (125 Grove Avenue) from Tuesday, April 24 to Thursday April 26, from 1 to 3 p.m. Each day. The cost for [...]
YMCA Healthy Kids Day Coming To Verona Park
On Saturday, April 28, from 1 to 4 p.m., the YMCA Healthy Kids Day event will be held in Verona Park. The Y has partnered with area hospitals, Whole Foods Market, Take Back the Kitchen and many others to create a fun and carnival like atmosphere promoting healthy living and healthy summer habits for kids. [...]
Get Your Girl Scout Cookies
After you’ve walked off a few calories with the Verona Baseball & Softball League opening day parade, head on over to Foodtown in Cedar Grove for Girl Scout Cookies. The H.B. Whitehorne 7th grade Cadette Troop 20144 will have a cookie booth sale at the supermarket on Saturday, April 7, from 11 a.m. to 2 [...]
Yankees Tix , Raffle At VBSL Opener
Today, Saturday, April 7, is the opening day parade for the Verona Baseball & Softball League. The parade starts at 10 a.m. at Verona Park and heads east up Bloomfield Avenue to Everett Field. Once there, VBSL will have the traditional first pitch ceremony, with this year’s honorees, Dawn Mulligan and Mike Keating, joining Mayor [...]
Picture Books: Me Want Pet!
Imagine you were a cave child and really wanted a pet. What would that pet be? When I asked my kids and they suggested a woolly mammoth, I was very thankful we are no longer living in caves. A fun story to read and see what your kids would think of, Me Want Pet is just the [...]
Legoland Florida, Brick By Brick
This past Christmas, my family and I did something we don’t normally do– we traveled for Christmas. Part road trip, part flying, a lot of packing and unpacking but in the end it was all worth it. There were new homes and new babies to visit as well as grandparents we hadn’t seen in a [...]
Pool Fees To Rise As New Features Debut
Summer in Verona means, for many people, summer at the Verona Pool. Membership renewal forms are in the mail, and there’s a new vendor coming to the snack bar. There will also be some pretty big changes to the pool itself. Here’s what you need to know. This year’s pool snack bar will be managed [...]
Get A Break From Library Fines
The Verona Public Library will celebrate National Library Week from April 8 to 14 by offering an amnesty on book fines. Residents who return overdue books during the week will not be charged a fine no matter how long the book has been out. But savings aren’t the only reason to go to the library [...]
Picture Books: Pip’s Trip
Picture books? Have we got picture books for you today. A recommendation from the Verona Public Lirary’s children’s librarian, a new pick from my favorite children’s book blog and a spotting of picture books galore at a local book store. Read on: “Pip is fascinated by the farm’s red pick-up truck and longs to see [...]
A Lesson On Trains At F.N. Brown
Students at F.N. Brown Elementary enjoyed a visit from train enthusiast Marc Sconzo, pictured here with his daughter Rebecca, a first grader at Brown. Sconzo displayed his large collection of model trains and answered countless questions from students.