If you like what the mild winter is doing for your utility bill, you’ll like this too: PSE&G will be giving customers a credit on their February residential gas bills. The credit will be 15 cents per therm on all February usage, which means that residential customers who use 200 therms in February will...
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“They ask me what I’d like written about me when I’m gone. I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just that I was a good football coach.” These are the words that are beside the statue of Joseph Vincent Paterno outside Beaver Stadium in State College, Pa. Four hundred-nine...
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Two weeks ago, Lisa Hudson (one of our loyal readers and occasional contributors) was digging up YouTube files of TV commercials from her childhood, like this quaint gem from Enjoli perfume. That got us thinking about another spot from that era, a Faberge shampoo commercial featuring a very young Heather Locklear and a concept...
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The Verona wrestling team has not always been on the winning end of its matches this season, but one of its athletes generally has. Tom Cundari has come away the victor against Belleville, Millburn, Union, Parsippany Hills and Madison of late, pinning his opponents in each. In fact, he has had only one loss...
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Angelo Pezzino knows that he was one of the lucky ones this past weekend. Pezzino and his wife, Danielle, Verona residents, were among the more than 4,200 people on board the Costa Concordia when it ran aground and capsized off the coast of Italy last Friday evening. “I am one little person at the...
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Last summer I had the pleasure of bringing my parents to the Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial down on the mall. It was a moving, if extremely hot, day for us, where things sort of came full circle for us. My parents weren’t born in the U.S. They chose to move here in the...
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Verona Police are asking drivers to avoid the intersection of Bloomfield and Pompton Avenues today. Apparently, an early morning crash toppled a utility pole across Bloomfield Avenue in the vicinity of Mountain Auto Body and Don Johnston’s Subway sandwich place. Traffic has been reduced to one lane in each direction while crews replace the...
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Verona Police have charged two men in connection with the recent thefts from cars belonging to members of Platinum Fitness. The two men were identified as Samuel Tirone from Woodland Park and Giovanni Gallo from Wayne. They have been charged with criminal trespassing in Verona and the case has turned over to Fairfield where...
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The National Weather Service has issued an alert about the possibility of heavy winds all day today. That could spell trouble in Verona given the number of dangling branches still in our trees as a result of the Halloween weekend snowstorm. A very strong cold front is moving into western Jersey today, which is...
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Clear your schedule for the night of Friday, February 3, and make plans to be at Verona High School for Cops & Rockers 2012, the teen band competition sponsored by the Verona PBA Local 72. It’s going to be a big, big show. So many bands signed up to perform this year that Cops...
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