Verona Police Chief Doug Huber told the Town Council at Monday night’s meeting that a suspect in the string of car thefts and break-ins in Verona has been apprehended. Huber gave few details because the Verona Police Department is still trying to connect the suspect to more cases. But he said that the VPD...
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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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If last week’s cautionary tale about a Verona resident whose car windshield was shattered by ice falling from a truck wasn’t enough to compel you to clean your car, consider this: The Cedar Grove police are ticketing drivers who haven’t cleared the ice from their vehicles. The woman in front of me in line...
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On Wednesday, New Jersey state Assembly Majority Leader Joseph Cryan introduced a bill that would exclude police and fire department salaries and benefits from the new law that caps annual property tax increases at 2%. That brought a swift, negative response from Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr., who branded the proposed legislation...
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The Star-Ledger has crunched the data on New Jersey police salaries and has found that the average municipal cop here earns 80% more than the average resident, and 30% made at least $100,000 last year. The report, which you can read here, also found that the best salaries are paid in small towns with...
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Party smart, folks. Police forces across the state are conducting a coordinated crackdown on drunk driving through Labor Day. The state Division of Highway Traffic Safety has doled out grants of $4,400 each to 187 police departments–including those of several towns surrounding Verona–so they can step up DWI arrests. This is a repeat of...
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In bedtime stories, raccoons are charming. In bedrooms, not so much. And after reading this story, you may be wondering what to do to keep them from showing up in your house. Chances are you already have raccoons around; they are very common in Verona. If you don’t see them in your trees at...
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Mostly, journalists report the news. Sometimes, however, we are the news. So when you read in the next police blotter that the Verona Police Department responded to a call about a raccoon in a house, you will know that it was mine. The dispatcher got Montclair Animal Control to my house quickly, and Officer...
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Baristanet is reporting that the Essex County Prosecutors Office has charged a 24-year-old Nutley man with attempted murder and weapons charges in the Jan. 30 shooting of Fairfield policeman Gerald Veneziano.
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Here are some of the headlines from the towns around Verona this week: Eight different police departments converged on West Essex High School on Tuesday after the North Caldwell police were tipped that a female student had possibly brought a gun inside the school. Police removed the student from the school, and, after searching...
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