The heads of several departments of Verona municipal government gave previews of their 2011 budgets last night. If you came wanting to hear about 10% cuts across the board, you came away disappointed. If you came wanting to hear about cost savings and cost management, you didn’t. Actually, very few people came. When you...
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Despite the change in venue from Town Council chambers, the ballroom at the Verona Community Center was not nearly big enough for the crowds, estimated by the Verona police at totaling about five hundred, who turned out for last night’s meeting on the 2010 budget. The cars filled all the VCC parking lots and...
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Jim Thomas, who runs Verona’s community television channel programming, was out of town last week when the Town Council meeting was met with an overflow crowd protesting the rise in taxes. He’s back now and the video from the meeting will be up on VTV tonight–and every night this week–at 7 p.m. Thomas normally...
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We got this letter from Connie Pifher, who runs the Verona Children’s Fund and is Verona’s unofficial clearinghouse for all sorts of charitable giving. It is both heart-warming and heart-wrenching: Earlier this year an elementary school in Paterson (grades K-5) opened up a library in their school. Children who did not have access to...
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If you use the Verona Public Library to borrow books from other libraries, you’d better be a speed reader: The service is shutting down June 30. This is not something that Library Director Jim Thomas wants to do, but he’s got no choice. Gov. Chris Christie has proposed $10.4 million in cuts to New...
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