Crock It! Lemon Garlic Chicken
The Play’s The Thing
For Baby Zoey And Family, Life Is In The Moment
Two Gentlemen Of Verona Light Up Shakespeare In The Park
I was searching around for slow cooker recipes and thought the Food Network‘s Web...
Ryan Smillie has had his time center stage. He acted and sang in just...
Zoey Penny of Verona is only 10 months old, but already she’s got her...
It’s a twist of fate worthy of the Bard himself: This summer, the two...
Before they pick up their instruments in band camp, Verona High School’s musicians will be picking up sponges and hoses to raise some money. The VHS music program will be holding a car wash on Saturday, August 7 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The suggested donation is $5 and all proceeds benefit the...
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Mr. Robert M. Osciak, 55, died on Thursday July 29, 2010 in Wayne. A funeral mass will be offered in Our Lady of the Lake Church, Verona on Monday, August 2 at 10 a.m. Visiting in the Prout Funeral Home, 370 Bloomfield Ave., Verona on Sunday from 4 to 7 p.m. Born in Glen...
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I was searching around for slow cooker recipes and thought the Food Network‘s Web site was good place to start. There’s always so much hype around those recipes. I came across one that had so many bad reviews, and I mean really bad reviews, that my competitive nature just kicked in and I felt...
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As a member of Verona’s Fire Department and Rescue Squad, Steve Giblin is accustomed to having to think fast in an emergency. But tomorrow night, he is going to have to think fast on stage. Giblin will be part of a performance by an improvisation class at the New Jersey School of Dramatic Arts...
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Before you hold Cedar Grove up as a model of fiscal discipline, consider this: The town has just won the right boost its taxes above the state’s 4% cap. Cedar Grove joins Montclair, Roseland and Irvington in the ranks of Essex County towns that will be over the cap. According to a spokesperson at...
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Do you love to dance? Do you think you could create a dance for a musical? Then hear this: The Paper Mill Playhouse has launched a contest that lets you choreograph part of the first show of its 2010-2011 season, Hairspray. The contest is called Hairspray’s Dance Invention and here’s what you have to...
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Ryan Smillie has had his time center stage. He acted and sang in just about every show at Verona High School before he graduated with the class of 2008. You may have seen him as the nefarious CEO Caldwell B. Cladwell in Urinetown. Now Smillie’s running the show in a different sort of way....
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The Verona 10U Summer Barnstormer baseball team competed in the championship of the 15-team Essex/Morris/Passaic Summer baseball league last night, July 28. Verona had to play and beat two of the top teams in the league (Nutley and South Orange/Maplewood) to get to the championship game against the No.1 seed, Montville. In a hard...
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First, a round of applause for whoever it was who proposed holding one of Verona’s summer concerts at Verona Pool instead of at the Civic Center. Then, another round of applause for Jimmy Hill, Jack O’Neil and the entire Lakeside Deli team for a delicious dinner menu. Oh, and Joey Arminio, who even though...
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Calvary Lutheran Church is holding a community-wide food drive to replenish the shelves at the Community FoodBank of New Jersey and the Human Needs Food Pantry in Montclair. You might remember that, earlier this year, Verona’s school kids collected nearly 3,000 pounds of food for the Human Needs. But in the summer months, supplies...
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Zoey Penny of Verona is only 10 months old, but already she’s got her own Web site, profiles in media outlets such as Fox News and The Star-Ledger, and a cadre of doctors at New York Presbyterian Hospital that includes an endocrinologist, cardiologist and audiologist. The reason: Zoey is one of only 16 children in...
The Verona 10U Barnstormers play the championship of the Essex/Passaic/Bergen baseball league tonight. The game, which starts at 7:30 p.m., is being played at a neutral site in Cedar Grove, the Little League field on the corner of Grove and Bradford Avenues. Verona, which has a 14-2 record, is playing No. 1 seed Montville,...
The 4-H Club is holding a class next Tuesday to help kids ages 8 and up to learn how to manage their money. Called Family Financial 411, the class will talk about how to handle allowances, budgeting, saving, and using credit. The class meets Tuesday, August 3 at 4 p.m. in the Essex County...
The Essex County Environmental Center in Roseland has sent a note to say that there are still openings in its half-day nature camp program for third and fourth graders. The camp runs from August 2 to 13, 1 to 5 p.m., and you can sign up for one week or two. To register or...
To really know Verona, you apparently need a dog. That was Joanne Arroyo’s secret to winning the first hat in our “Where In Verona” contest. On Monday, we showed you the photo on the left, which got Arroyo thinking. “To give credit where it’s due,” she says, “it was actually my husband who identified...
It’s a twist of fate worthy of the Bard himself: This summer, the two Shakespearean plays currently being performed in Central Park showcase the work of not one but two lighting designers from Verona (New Jersey, not Italy). The first is Ken Posner, whose work has illuminated more than 35 Broadway musicals, including Wicked and...
It’s not every day that you get to reconnect with your old friends, especially if they’re friends from a Verona High School class that graduated 36 years ago. But a group of the VHS Class of 1974 convened at the Highlawn Pavilion on Saturday night and they took a picture that recreated a shot...
The Essex County Environmental Center’s “Little Explorers” program is holding several of nature classes for kids in August. There will be sessions for 2½ to 3½ year-olds on August 2 and 16, from 10 to 11 a.m. Children ages 3½ to 5 meet on August 9 and 23, from 10 to 11 a.m. Each...
Holly Whitmore Denton’s Music Together school will be doing a sing and play along under the C.H.I.L.D. reading tent at the Verona Pool this Thursday, July 29 at 3 p.m. Infants, toddlers, preschoolers and their parents are invited to attend. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Music Together is based on the idea...
Before they pick up their instruments in band camp, Verona High School’s musicians will...
The 4-H Club is holding a class next Tuesday to help kids ages 8...
Holly Whitmore Denton’s Music Together school will be doing a sing and play along...
Birdwatchers can close out July with a hike next Saturday, Saturday, July 31, in...
Mr. Robert M. Osciak, 55, died on Thursday July 29, 2010 in Wayne. A...
We got a sad e-mail last night from Cindy Costanza and Lisy Espindola, announcing...
Mrs. Margaret Sheila Pritchard of Verona passed away peacefully at her home on July...
Mr. Richard J. Meehan, 77, died on Thursday July 1, 2010 at his home...
