Post Tagged with: "Caldwell"
Verona Kids Star In Caldwell Show
Whether you’re spending spring break near or far, this might be a fun way to end the week: Watching two Verona High School students perform in Fiddler on the Roof. Sean McGinley will have the featured role of Tevye, the milkman. Michael Hardenberg is cast as Fyedka, a young Russian farmer. The musical will be [...]
Verona Passes Budget; W. Orange, Cedar Grove Don’t
School election results were mixed across Essex County, but more school budgets passed here than elsewhere in the state, where voters rejected 260 of the 479 school budgets up for consideration. In a strong turnout for an off-season election, Verona voters approved our $27.5 million school budget by 1130 to 1048. School superintendent Charles Sampson [...]
News Wrap: Bloomfield Stadium, NJ Transit Salaries, Bear Hunt
Bloomfield voters defeated a referendum to fix its Foley Field stadium. According to Baristanet, the vote means no home football games at Bloomfield in the fall. Montclair’s town council approved the use of eminent domain to acquire a lot across from the Montclair Police headquarters for redevelopment as a parking lot. The land is owned [...]
Neighborhood Wrap For The Week Of Feb. 21
Though MyVeronaNJ is focused on Verona, there are things going on in our neighboring towns and across Essex County that bear watching. So we’re introducing a new weekly column to help you stay on top of some of these developments. This is how the tough economy and municipal budget deficits are playing out across Essex [...]
Verona’s Makes Top 10 Of NJ Best Places List
New Jersey Monthly magazine’s new “Best Places to Live” list is out, and while Verona is still in the top 10, it has slipped a few notches since the previous ranking in 2008. Verona was one of only three Essex County towns to crack the top 10. It was ranked 9th on the current list, [...]
Verona Names On Olympic Hockey Roster
Maybe it’s the influence of Verona resident John MacLean, a former New Jersey Devils hockey player, Stanley Cup winner and, until last year, the team’s all-time leading scorer. Or maybe it’s something in our water. But names familiar to Verona residents keep popping up among the Olympic players currently wielding sticks in Vancouver. There’s Jamie [...]
New Leadership In Caldwell
Caldwell’s town council held its annual re-organization meeting yesterday and neighboring news Web site TheCaldwellsPatch has all the details. There are two new council members, Richard Hauser and Peter Murray, and Verona resident Gregory Mascera, a partner at the Verona firm of Bannon, Rawding, McDonald & Mascera, was appointed municipal attorney. There were also a [...]
Get Your Ice Skates Ready
I grew up skating on Verona Park Lake. Back then, we could make a chain of skaters that stretched from the boathouse almost to the island and skate together until we whipped the last person forward at a fearsome rate. Then we laughed like crazy and did it again. We could skate on the lake [...]