The Verona, Cedar Grove, Essex Fells and North Caldwell police departments will be hosting a special emergency preparedness program on January 19, 2012, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Verona Community Center. The training session, called the Community College Citizen Preparedness Program (3CP2), is free. It consists of two hours of instruction on...
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It’s a test, it is only a test, but at 2 p.m. today, Wednesday, November 9, there will be the first simultaneously national test of the Emergency Alert System. Just as with the local and state tests you grew up with, radio and TV broadcasters will be required to turn over their airwaves for...
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Back in December 2009, when MyVeronaNJ.com was just getting started and setting up its Facebook and Twitter feeds, we discovered something strange: The Verona Police Department was testing out a Twitter-like service to send messages to cell phones. The test never went anywhere until a freak October snowstorm made it clear that Verona needed...
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For many people in Verona, it is the chief annoyance of living in Verona: The horn. You know the one I mean. Oh sure, it’s quaint the way it blows at 8 a.m. and 6 p.m., to mark the beginning and end of a day (yes, a day of an earlier era). But confess....
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Verona has a valley that runs through it. But even if you put the words “Verona” and “Valley” together, they probably won’t evoke cutting edge technology in the way that the words “Silicon Valley” do. And yet, at the north end of Grove Avenue, in the valley cut by the Peckman, is a company...
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