The annual kids mountain bike race Hilltop Grasshopper is next Saturday, August 10, and there’s still time, to register your kids for it. In-person registration and inspection opens at 7:30 a.m., with races for kindergarteners through 8th...

Stephen Machnowski, a Verona resident who is one of the head coaches of the Essex Offroad Mountain Bike Team, participated in the Cohutta 100, a hundred-mile ultra-endurance mountain bike race through Tennessee’s Cherokee National Forest on April...

Fourteen-year-old Verona resident Nina Machnowski competed in the 10th Annual Hampshire 100 endurance mountain bike race on Sunday, August 21. Machnowski races for Team Pedal Montclair and finished in third place in the 50K Sport Women class....

For the third year, the Hilltop Reservation was the site of the Hilltop Grasshopper Kid’s Bike Race. On Saturday, August 18, racers from kindergarten through 8th grade blazed some fast laps on the dedicated Kid’s Korse, a...

This past Saturday, the Hilltop Conservancy, with help from the Jersey Off Road Bicycle Association and the Essex County Parks Department hosted the 2nd Annual Hilltop Grasshopper Kid’s Bike Race. Two Verona students earned podium finishes for...

Kids in Verona don’t have many opportunities for off-road bike riding. But this Saturday, August 20, the Hilltop Conservancy and the Essex County Parks Department are once again holding a kids bike race, the Hilltop Grasshopper on...

If you saw a steady procession of cars with bike racks on Bloomfield Avenue this past weekend, the reason was the first Hilltop Grasshopper. The mountain bike race, open to kids in kindergarten through eighth grade, was...