Mel Levine, North Caldwell’s long-time mayor and councilman, has been tapped to be the borough’s new administrator. Levine will be paid $75,000 plus benefits, a savings of almost $20,000 over the previous administrator. The Star Ledger has the story here.
Read More »
Caldwells Patch is reporting this morning that a major overnight fire has devastated the Caldwell Diner. Firefighters from many towns around our area had to respond to the blaze, which went to three alarms. No word yet on the cause. The story is here.
Read More »
Early this week, New Jersey blew $400 million in federal education aid after botching the application process. Now the other shoe has dropped. Gov. Chris Christie has fired Bret Schundler, the state education commissioner who had shepherded the bid. According to our state news partner, NewJerseyNewsroom.com, Schundler had told the governor that New Jersey...
Read More »
Party smart, folks. Police forces across the state are conducting a coordinated crackdown on drunk driving through Labor Day. The state Division of Highway Traffic Safety has doled out grants of $4,400 each to 187 police departments–including those of several towns surrounding Verona–so they can step up DWI arrests. This is a repeat of...
Read More »
Almost five years ago, Hurricane Katrina descended upon New Orleans, killing 700 people and doing $81 billion in damage as it flattened homes across the region. Even now, so many seasons later, some homes have not been rebuilt. But a few more of them have been repaired, thanks to the Youth Group at Our...
Read More »
You probably know by know that Verona’s main thoroughfare can be a bit dicey at times. Bloomfield Avenue gets a lot of cars and, as in all towns, there’s not a lot of room between street-side parking and the traffic. Kevin Toscano was in an accident on Bloomfield Avenue this weekend and sent us...
Read More »
The Verona Health Department would like to let everyone know that the Montclair Health Department is holding two, free vaccination clinics in September that are open to Verona residents. Four different vaccines are being offered, including the one for cervical cancer. The clinics will be on Wednesday, September 1 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m....
Read More »
Ben Blinder started a blog when he ran, unsuccessfully, for Town Council last year. It has morphed from campaign platform to intermittent musings about life in Verona, and he put up a post yesterday that bears reading as Verona considers its options on budget and government matters. It concerns three issues Blinder raised in...
Read More »
The New Jersey state Senate voted today to have the Attorney General review a state law that requires new drivers to put a red decal on their license plates. The AG’s office will have six months to determine whether the decal law, which is known as “Kyleigh’s Law” after the teenager whose death sparked...
Read More »
So we’re apparently going to be getting a whole summer’s worth of rain in four days. Yesterday’s deluge will continue today–and tomorrow, and Wednesday. The weekend is expected to be dry, but there’s a large tropical storm in the Atlantic between South America and Africa that is headed toward North America. And if you...
Read More »
