Section: News
Town May Save Historic Freight Shed
A tiny Verona structure is getting a lot of attention these days–and may become the town’s first official historic landmark. At Thursday night’s meeting of Verona’s Landmarks Preservation Commission, its members voted unanimously to recommend that the Town Council designate the railroad freight shed on the property at 62 Depot Street a landmark. If the [...]
Verona Boys Vanquish Cedar Grove
The Boys’ Basketball team scored a decisive victory over archrival Cedar Grove last night in the Hillbilly gym, 56-49. After a slow first quarter, Verona went on a scoring spree in the second, closing the period leading 23-18 after Eddie Nicastro’s back-to-back three-pointers. Verona held off a fourth-quarter surge by Cedar Grove with the help [...]
Double Emergency On Lakeside
Verona firefighters responded swiftly to a chimney fire at 78 Lakeside Avenue, just beyond Pease, about five-thirty Friday evening. The half-dozen emergency vehicles on Lakeside and Pease, including three fire trucks and assorted emergency vehicles, caused quite a commotion in rush-hour traffic. Clearly, somebody was paying more attention to the fire than to the road: [...]
High School Sports Canceled, Postponed
Impending snow has prompted a wave of changes to sports schedules tonight and tomorrow. The VHS girls freshman basketball game against Montclair Kimberley Academy that was to be starting right now has been canceled. But the varsity wrestling match against West Side High that starts at 5 p.m. is on, as are the boys JV [...]
Kindergarten Workshops Canceled, Book Fair Postponed
The pre-kindergarten workshops that were to have been held at all Verona public elementary schools on Saturday, February 6 from 10-11 a.m. have been canceled because of the expected heavy snow. No word yet on when or if tomorrow’s planned session is going to be rescheduled. The schools had planned to hold the subsequent orientation [...]
Big Snowstorm Headed Our Way
Depending on how much you like winter, you may be cheered or dismayed to hear that there could be as much as a foot of snow headed our way, starting this afternoon. According to NewJerseyNewsroom.com, the New Jersey Department of Transportation crews have begun to put a brine solution down on certain roadways to keep [...]
Thanks A Ton–And A Half!
A school-wide food drive delivered a staggering 2,942 pounds of food for the Human Needs Food Pantry in Montclair today. The Conference of SCAs, a coalition of the parent groups at all of the town’s public schools, organized the collection day. Food was brought in to H.B. Whitehorne, F.N. Brown, Forest Avenue, Laning Avenue, Brookdale [...]
New Fields And Upgrades For Hilltop, VCC
Several improvements and additions to sporting facilities in and around the Verona Community Center were announced by Township Manager Joseph Martin at Monday’s Town Council meeting. These include a new snack bar and bleachers for Veteran’s Field; a new road connecting the VCC parking lot to White Rock Road, and two brand-new fields on the [...]
Climbing Tree R.I.P.
It’s gone. Fittingly, the news came from the kids. A freshman at VHS, who walks home even in the chilliest weather, sent out the alert on Twitter: “Climbing Tree R.I.P.” and the news flitted, like a bird in the tree, from cell phone to cell phone. We all knew this was going to happen. We [...]
It’s Gone
Our beloved Climbing Tree was reduced to a stump yesterday. There are more photos on MyVeronaNJ’s Facebook page.