Whether Christmas is your holiday or not, we hope you can spend today enjoying the company of family and friends. MyVeronaNJ.com has pulled together some of the lights and cheer of the season in the movie below for you to share with your guests and with any Veronans who are far from home today....
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Just after Thanksgiving, Turtle Back Zoo kicked off its fifth annual holiday lights show. The last time we attended this event, it was three years ago, and it was much colder! Traipsing around the zoo in the dark was fun for both kids and adults. This year we had an added surprise, and it...
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If you’re feeling spent by Christmas, Time Out New York‘s kids edition has something you might enjoy: Several days of free, or nearly free things to do in New York City over the holiday week break. They range from the skating rink at Bryant Park (which Tracy has already flagged as a good idea)...
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If you have children in Laning Avenue School, you know Charlie Marion even though you may not know that you know him. Charlie is the crossing guard at the corner of Laning and Otsego, and he does his job with delight–and authority. He knows the kids at his corner well enough to ask them...
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On Tuesday, December 21, Verona’s Daisy Troop 21221, Brownie Troop 20176 and Brownie Troop 201 went caroling at Cedar Hill Nursing Home in Cedar Grove. Cedar Hill residence enjoyed the holiday songs and a good time was had by all.
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We needed a bit of silly news to lighten the mood today and this press release from Fairleigh Dickinson University will do nicely. A professor of marketing at FDU’s Silberman College of Business conducted a survey and found that 38% of New Jerseyans admit to giving gifts that they have received to someone else....
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Daylight may be in short supply in Verona right now, but the night skies are bright with many, many holiday light displays. There are white lights and colored lights, inflatables and fixed displays, secular and religious–and sometimes all on the same front lawn. The Verona homeowners who entered their homes in our 2010 Holiday...
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Verona has lots of holiday traditions, but one of the best is the day that Santa tours the town on a fire truck, courtesy of the Verona Fire Department. It’s going to be this Sunday, December 19, starting at 11 a.m. We strong-armed one of the elves, who divulged that there will actually be...
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Over the summer, we brought you several day trip ideas from Verona electrician George Anderson and his wife Cathy. Their latest newsletter has some fun ways for you to get in the holiday spirit, if you’re not there already. The Andersons like the Holiday Lights Spectacular at Turtle Back Zoo, which we told you...
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We know how you feel big guy, and we don’t even have elves to fall back on.
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