The crowd at Glen Ridge’s Hurrell Field was treated to an old-fashioned match-up between two rivals on Saturday afternoon. Falling rain caused for a muddy track and slippery conditions, making it difficult for both teams to put the ball in the air. Verona’s offensive line held strong all game and helped make the transition...
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Get ready for a wall of sound. Several walls, actually. The Verona High School Marching Maroon and White is hosting the annual Festival of Bands on October 2, which will bring seven high school marching bands from across our area to the upper VHS field for one big evening of music. And thanks to...
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Verona and Glen Ridge cooperate on the ice in hockey, but in football they are rivals and yesterday, in an early afternoon game, it was our eastern neighbor’s turn to win. Glen Ridge got on the board first with a 60-yard run by Michael Rollo. But Bobby Kaslander answered back for Verona almost immediately,...
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If you thought secession was something that vanished with the Civil War, consider this: Glen Ridge is weighing a decision to secede from New Jersey’s public education system. According to The Star Ledger, the Glen Ridge school board will discuss converting some or all of its schools to private schools when it goes on...
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Today at the Super Essex Conference Golf Championships at Forest Hills Golf Club in Bloomfield, the Verona golf team scored 471, good for fourth place, behind Livingston, Glen Ridge and Nutley. Even more impressive for the Hillbillies was the fact that Verona junior Will LaRiccia was the individual tournament champion, shooting a 79, the...
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Despite a hard fought game, the Girls’ Lacrosse team couldn’t get past Glen Ridge in the semifinals of the Essex County Tournament Sunday at Forest Avenue School in Glen Ridge. The Girls fell by a score of 19-10 to a Glen Ridge (11-1) team that is currently ranked number 8 in the state. In...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The heavy rains and winds that began Friday have wreaked havoc on Verona and the surrounding area with widespread power outages, felled trees, closed roads, and flooded streams, rivers and basements. This morning found many Veronans grappling with major headaches as they tried to get to work and school. The good news: According to...
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