Go ahead and make your plans for the long weekend: The Verona Board of Education cannot open school on Monday, January 16, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. At the final BOE meeting in December, the Board had mulled opening schools on the holiday to get an extra snow day later. Verona public...
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Verona lost three public school snow days after the Halloween weekend snowstorm–the only three snow days that the Board of Education had budgeted for the entire 2011-2012 school year. At last night’s meeting, the Board opened a discussion on what to do to make sure Verona can meet its teaching requirements if there are...
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If you have made any plans for spring break, you might want to rethink them. The Board of Education has decided to keep Verona’s public schools closed for a third day. The BOE issued this statement: Due to a continued loss of power at two of our school buildings and the unsafe conditions presented...
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Verona public schools will be closed again tomorrow, November 1, because power has not yet been restored to all school buildings. The Board of Education meeting that would have taken place at Verona High School tomorrow night will be held instead at Laning Avenue, which is one of the few schools that has power...
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Those of you without heat, power or Internet might not want to hear this, but Verona public schools look iffy for Tuesday. Forest Avenue and Laning Avenue elementary schools have power, and H.B. Whitehorne has power in half the building. But Brookdale, F.N. Brown and Verona High School have no power as of this...
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Go back under the covers, Verona. The public schools are closed today.
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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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The Global Connect call just came through: Verona public schools will be closed tomorrow, February 26. Our Lady of the Lake school will be closed as well. Verona joins the public schools in Montclair, Bloomfield, Glen Ridge and North Caldwell, as well as Mount Saint Dominic Academy. That’s the list so far, but there...
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That’s what the pundits at NJ.com are calling today’s storm because of the prospect of heavy snow and winds later. Our Lady of the Lake closed its schools from the get-go this morning, but the public schools, perhaps in an attempt to preserve our last snow day, held a half day and closed up...
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Verona police apprehended an adult couple today who had reportedly stolen high-end pocketbooks from a store in Livingston, after they found them hiding in a shed on the property of a Hillside Avenue home. According to Police Chief Doug Huber, Verona police picked up a radio call from the Livingston police suggesting that the...
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