Post Tagged with: "Cedar Grove"
Week In Review: Diner Fire, Bank Robbery, Taxing Students
A lunch-time kitchen fire briefly shut the Pilgrim Diner in Cedar Grove on Thursday. But the diner was again operating to a packed parking lot by the weekend. Baristanet reported a bank robbery at the Wachovia branch on Bloomfield Avenue in Glen Ridge. The Glen Ridge Police Department isn’t saying how much money was taken, [...]
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 [...]
Week In Review: Library Cuts, Teacher Raises And Murder
A murder in Essex Fells dominated news around Verona this past week. Baristanet reported that 91-year-old Robert Nevius was found in his ransacked home on Thursday and police immediately treated the case as a homicide. On Friday, a 28-year-old East Orange man who had worked for Nevius and his wife as a chauffeur was arrested [...]
Residents Voice Support For School Budget
At last night’s Board of Education meeting, Superintendent Charles Sampson outlined how $1.4 million will be cut from Verona’s 2010-2011 budget in the wake of severe state cutbacks. The presentation, which is on the Verona schools’ Web site, demonstrates how the money will be saved, without significant changes to student programs. Most of the savings [...]
Verona Schools Pass Federal Test
All six Verona public schools met the 2009 targets set by the state of New Jersey under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, according to data released on Thursday by the state Department of Education and reported in The Star-Ledger. More than 800 schools in New Jersey, or more than 36 percent of schools [...]
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 [...]