Governor Chris Christie has signed a measure that could move Verona school board elections to November from April and eliminate a public vote on the school budget. As we noted earlier this month, Senate bill 3148 establishes a way for school districts, their towns and even voters themselves to move the annual school election...
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Tuesday, November 8, is an election day. One of those odd, off-year elections filled with a lot of names you don’t recognize who have been running for seats without, for the most part, actually campaigning. There’s one state Senate seat up for grabs in our district and two state Assembly spots. One race is...
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Marilynn English, a Verona resident who ran unsuccessfully for Essex County executive last November, has thrown her hat into the ring for the freeholder election this year. English, who garnered just over 3% of the vote last year on a shoestring campaign, is running as an “at-large” candidate. Five members of the nine-person board...
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Frank Sapienza and Michael Nochimson, who won four-year terms to the Verona Town Council on May 10, were sworn in this morning at Town Hall. Sapienza, who won re-election with the largest vote count for any of the eight candidates in the election, was sworn in by Town Clerk Jean McEnroe, accompanied by his...
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Between elections and calamities, May was a busy month. But the readers of MyVeronaNJ.com also took time to weigh in on the surveys that we have created as part of our “Reinventing Verona” series, with some clear opinions on the Verona pool (longer hours, longer season) and dining options in town (more family-friendly restaurants,...
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If last month’s favorite stories were a novel, it would be Crime and Punishment. Well, actually just crime, since we don’t yet have a resolution of either the bank robbery at the Wells Fargo on Bloomfield Avenue or the house burglaries that have been popping up around Verona. There’s never much in the way...
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We have gotten this note from Kevin Ryan, who won the election to fill the unexpired two-year term of former Town Council member Ken McKenna on May 10: “I would like to take this opportunity to thank the citizens of Verona for the trust they have demonstrated by electing me to fill the 2...
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Michael Nochimson, who won a four-year term on the Verona Town Council in the election on Tuesday, has sent us this note of thanks to the public: “I’d like to thank my family, friends and neighbors for their support. We won together! I take great pride in this vote of confidence and the encouragement...
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We got this e-mail from Bruce Williams, who received 742 votes in yesterday’s election to Kevin Ryan’s 748. “I would like to congratulate my opponent Kevin Ryan for winning a hard fought race for the two-year council seat left vacant by Ken McKenna. Losing by 6 votes is a tough one. I have a...
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Verona went to the polls today and elected Frank Sapienza and Michael Nochimson to four-year terms on the Verona Town Council and picked Kevin Ryan to fill the remaining two years of former councilman Ken McKenna’s term. Sapienza handily won re-election, with the largest vote count for any of the eight candidates. Here are...
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