The $28.4 million Verona school budget for 2011-2012 passed tonight by a vote of 724 to 543. The budget will add $104 per year to the average Verona assessed home, which is the lowest increase since 2001. Dawn DuBois will be joining the Board of Education as a new member. DuBois was the lone...
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Melissa Symczak (left) and Jennifer Critchley (second from left) present a check on behalf of the Verona Junior Women’s Club to Mary Hipp and Donna Holland, co-presidents of the Brookdale Avenue SCA, following a successful fundraiser in January. The Juniors’ fund raising efforts also will benefit other local schools and organizations.
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For several years now, kids at H.B. Whitehorne have had Three Cups of Tea on their reading list. It’s an uplifting story of one man’s quest to promote peace through education in one of the most forsaken corners of the planet. It’s also a best-seller–4 million copies in print–that has funded a non-profit run...
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Three Verona High School students are going to Orlando next week, but it’s not going to be a vacation. Filip Babalievsky, Paul Corrente and Marc Cortese participate in a business education program at VHS called DECA, and they are going to Florida to participate in DECA’s annual national competition. The three earned their way...
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You have a lot of decisions to make this spring, Verona. On April 27 and again on May 10, you will be called to the polls to make crucial decisions about our schools and town government. MyVeronaNJ has put together a guide to the elections that we hope you’ll consult frequently during the coming...
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The Verona High School Heroes & Cool Kids members joined H.B. Whitehorne students on Friday, April 1 to participate in Jump Rope for Heart. In this event, students jump rope as teams, learn about heart health and raise money for the American Heart Association–$33,000 this year. The VHS Heroes teamed up with their fifth...
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We know how hard it is to keep up with the flood of information every week, in town and in the world at large. MyVeronaNJ.com has been helping you with the former, and now we’re going to take on the latter. Today, we are launching a new column called “Required Reading”. No, there’s no...
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Jeffrey Monacelli, the principal of Forest Avenue School, and Dr. Larry Siegel, an educator in Verona’s gifted and talented program, run a summer enrichment program called V-SEA. It’s open to kids entering kindergarten this fall all the way through those entering 8th grade. The elementary program has a mix of activities in language arts,...
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This past Friday, Laning Avenue School hosted a bike event that ended with one lucky student going home with a new bike. The event was a spin-off of a program called Bike 4 A Bike, that was started three years ago by Montclair Bikery. On Wednesday, March 30, Joe Ewing of Montclair Bikery came...
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Our parents had it easy. They didn’t have to stay on top of endlessly changing computer and cell phone technology just to stay one step ahead of us. Andor Kish, the tech teacher at H.B. Whitehorne Middle School, knows the pain of today’s parents. So he’s holding a “Tech Talk” on Tuesday, April 26...
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