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To Mark 9/11, Be An Everyday Hero
What if you did something heroic and nobody noticed? What if you did helped someone and nobody took your picture, posted a video of you on YouTube or tweeted your accomplishment to the world? Would you still feel like a hero? Michael Benfante thinks you should try. Ten years ago, Benfante experienced something that people [...]
Catching Up With Kurt Landsberger
If you want to chat with Kurt Landsberger, you’ve only got a small window of opportunity every week. Though past 90, he still goes to work three days a week. When not in the office, he needs time for writing–weekly newspaper columns and his sixth book. Or time for philanthropy, largely through the foundation he [...]
Teresa Giudice At DiPaolo’s Tonight
Teresa Giudice, one of the stars of “Real Housewives of New Jersey”, will be at DiPaolo Bakery tonight to sign copies of her new cookbook, Fabulicious! DiPaolo’s new owner, Fulvio DiPaolo, will also be serving a little something he baked up from the cookbook. The event runs from 6 to 8 p.m. and DiPaolo Bakery [...]
Comic Book Sale To Benefit Hospice
Superheroes for Hospice will host its 3rd annual summer Comic Sale on Saturday, July 16, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Saint Barnabas Health Care System Corporate Office located at 95 Old Short Hills Road in West Orange. The show will benefit patients and families served by the Saint Barnabas Hospice and Palliative [...]
Spanish Story Time Next Wednesday
Children Having Individual Learning Differences, the Verona non-profit that sponsors the summer reading room at Verona Pool, is sponsoring a Spanish-language story time with Marisela Santiago of Watchung Booksellers in Montclair, next Wednesday, July 13, from 1 to 2 p.m.. The first 25 children to come to the story time will get a free copy [...]
VHS Seeks Book Donations
Earlier this year, Verona’s Board of Education moved to make improvements to its college prep English classes in grades 9 to 11. Central to those changes is getting more books into classroom libraries, particularly the kinds of books that high school kids are most likely to be interested in. But in today’s tight budget environment, [...]
Book Swap Returns This Weekend
Essex County is once again holding its Book Swap at the Environmental Center in Roseland. This Saturday, May 21, residents who bring books to the Center will get a voucher that they can spend on some of the many books that will be brought it. If you don’t have books to swap, you can still [...]
Grover Cleveland’s Secret
If you grew up in Verona, there’s a better than even chance that you went on a field trip to Grover Cleveland’s birthplace on Bloomfield Avenue in Caldwell. Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts went there, and often entire elementary school classes. You learned about how Cleveland dressed as a child and what toys he played [...]
Required Reading: Controversy Over A Middle School Book
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 by [...]
Book Sale At Beth Ahm
On Sunday, March 27 from 1 to 4 p.m., the Women’s League of Congregation Beth Ahm will hold a major book sale. Hundreds of gently used fiction and nonfiction hardbacks and paperbacks will be offered for $1 to $3, which is a fraction of their original price. The selections will appeal to all reading tastes: [...]