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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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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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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...
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The Verona Baseball Softball League‘s 11U summer baseball team has advanced the championships. VBSL Co-President Tom Finn says the Verona team will face North Caldwell tonight at 6:30 p.m. at Fireman’s Field in North Caldwell. If you’re going, that’s the field off Mountain Avenue; directions are here. The game could make for some complicated...
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Former West Orange mayor John F. McKeon is heading a new effort by the New Jersey state Assembly to document spending that drives up local property taxes because it is mandated, but not funded, by the state. “This is part of an overall effort to bring systemic change to a system that simply costs...
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This torn-up section of  sidewalk on Lakeside near Hillside may mean some short-term inconvenience for pedestrians. But it will soon be good news: The location of a pedestrian-activated traffic signal to help those trying to cross Lakeside, which Councilman Jay Sniatkowski has compared to a very dangerous game of chicken. (The town is “close”...
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Verona’s property revaluation made the front page of The Star Ledger’s Essex section today. You can read the story here.
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The ink on Verona’s 2010 budget is barely dry, but Township Manager Joe Martin and Dorothy Trimmer, Verona’s de facto CFO, have begun work on our expenses and revenue for 2011. There’s some good news on the budget locally and some bad news–potentially a lot of bad news–for Verona’s budget coming out of Trenton....
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This shot of Verona Park lake, taken on Monday, looks like a scene that Monet would have appreciated. Algae blooms seem to have sprouted on the water especially early this year; the motor boat in the photo, quaint as it looks, is actually two workers spraying something to control the green gunk, according to...
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