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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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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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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,...
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