In Verona, we are lucky to have an abundant source of clean, safe drinking water. But the quality of water in many states to our west has suffered since a natural gas drilling process was exempted from the Safe Water Drinking Act. Now some companies want to use that drilling process–known as “fracking”–in the...
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Tom Dougherty’s dad, Thomas P. Dougherty, passed away on Sunday, December 11. Visitation is this afternoon at Prout Funeral Home from 2 to 4 p.m. and again tonight from 7 to 9 p.m. Services are tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. at Our Lady of the Lake. The full obituary is here.
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Church Street is closed for its much-needed resurfacing and repaving, but the Verona Rescue Squad wants you to know that it is still ready to help you if you need it. Verona Rescue Squad Captain Matt Antolino has made arrangements with Verona Fire Department Chief Pat McEvoy to house two ambulances at Firehouse One...
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When I lost power during the October snowstorm, the sump pump stopped working and water backed up into a filing cabinet I had in the basement. The stuff in the bottom drawer had been put there because it needed to be shredded, but I never found the time to feed the stuff page by...
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If you were listening to the fire horn in Verona on Sunday night, you may have heard an unusual combination: 2-2-2-2. It’s a pattern of emergency horns that tells Verona’s volunteer firefighters that their help is needed in a neighboring town and they need to report to our two stations for their assignments. The...
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The Verona Police are investigating a burglary to a Linden Avenue residence that is the fourth burglary in the past three weeks. In the most recent incident, which occurred on Linden between Elmwood and Otsego roads, a resident reported that a male rang his front doorbell. As the homeowner was making his way to...
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Gabrielle Caprari (middle) and Jennifer Coppola (right) of the Junior Women’s Club of Verona recently delivered 159 pounds of Halloween candy to the Cedar Grove office of Dr. Matthew Peluso. In exchange, Peluso, who collected the candy for troops stationed overseas, donated $159 to the Juniors and another $159 to Susan G. Komen for...
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The Verona Historical Society will be honoring past president Gerald Caprio tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Community Center Ballroom at the Society’s holiday get-together. Caprio’s dedication to the preservation of local history was a driving force behind both the Verona Historical Society and the League of West Essex Historical Societies for many years....
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The Verona High School Sports Boosters, which sponsor the Senior Athlete of the Week award on MyVeronaNJ.com, have set the date for their annual winter beefsteak dinner. The fundraiser will be held on Saturday January 21, at the Verona Community Center, beginning at 7:30 p.m. There will be door prizes, a tricky tray and...
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MyVeronaNJ.com counts Fair in the Square as its birthday: In the fall of 2009 we pushed like crazy to get the site ready to launch at the fair. We booked a table and had our Web site, Facebook page, Twitter feed and YouTube site ready to go. But we hadn’t factored in Mother Nature...
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