Post Tagged with: "Verona Park"
Events For The Week Of April 12
If you have kids in track, tennis, golf, lacrosse, softball and baseball, you’ve got a problem today: Every one of those sports has a game at 4 p.m. In fact, there’s so much in the way of sports this week, that it’s best to talk about the non-sports events first. Especially when one of them [...]
Downed Utility Pole Causes Lake Oil Spill
When a tree tipped over in the wee hours of the morning Monday on Park Avenue, it took out a utility pole, knocking out power in the immediate vicinity for a few hours. But it was also responsible for a small oil spill in Verona Lake. According to an employee for Allstate Power Vac, the [...]
Cancer Patients Lead Races To Help Others
Tim Drost doesn’t know Tyler Coppola all that well. Drost is an adult; Coppola is just a kid. And were it not for one thing, they might not have much in common. That one thing is cancer, however. And this spring, Tim Drost is going to be working to rally funds for cancer research –and [...]
Storm Damage May Cost $100,000
At last night’s town council meeting, town representatives discussed the impact of the weekend’s storm. Mayor Teena Schwartz, Town Manager Joseph Martin, Town Engineer Jim Helb and council members concurred that the past weekend’s heavy rains and high winds constituted “the worst storm since Floyd,’” referring to Hurricane Floyd in 1999, which caused heavy local [...]
Send A Note, Support The Park
With Verona Park’s flowers, shrubs and trees about to explode with color, it’s a good time to think about supporting the group that supports the park. The Verona Park Conservancy sells note cards that feature images created by four Verona artists. (Two of the artists, Allen and Ann C. Taylor, are currently being featured in [...]
Snow Day #2!
Woot, woot!! It’s official: Tomorrow, Thursday, is another snow day for Verona public schools! These sledders spotted in Verona Park today will get another go-round tomorrow. If they can make their way across town, that is. We ran into a VHS senior more accustomed to driving on his way out of the park this afternoon [...]
Verona Park Conservancy Starts Tree Fund
If you were in the park on last week’s balmy Friday morning, you probably noticed that the long, sad process of felling several very large trees was underway. The Verona Park Conservancy, a group of volunteers, has undertaken a large-scale project to preserve as many of Verona Park’s old-growth trees as possible, remove those that [...]
Celebrating The End Of Midterms
What was this merry band of VHS students doing hanging out in Verona Park at 1:00 pm today, besides enjoying the surprisingly warm and sunny January day? They weren’t cutting school, but taking a well-deserved break from midterms, which ended today at 12:30. They’re back to the grind again tomorow with a full day of [...]
Veronan Films In The Park
Verona native Maria Vlahos was in Verona Park recently filming a movie for a class at Fairfield University, where she is a student. Entitled “Prince Leonides,” the film, which she is directing, is about a 7-year-old boy who starts a “war” during school recess, in the style of the Spartans he used to read about [...]
Verona Lake On Ice
Fred Goode was down at Verona Park with his camera this weekend, and he’s sent us some wonderfully evocative pictures of the frozen lake. We’re posting a sample here, but you can see the full album on our Facebook page.