A murder in Essex Fells dominated news around Verona this past week. Baristanet reported that 91-year-old Robert Nevius was found in his ransacked home on Thursday and police immediately treated the case as a homicide. On Friday, a 28-year-old East Orange man who had worked for Nevius and his wife as a chauffeur was...
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New Jersey Transit is holding a series of hearings, starting today, on a proposed 25% fare hike and a plan to end some train runs entirely. How that is going to drive ridership anything but away in the current economy is anyone’s guess. If you want to complain or voice a better idea, here’s...
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Bloomfield voters defeated a referendum to fix its Foley Field stadium. According to Baristanet, the vote means no home football games at Bloomfield in the fall. Montclair’s town council approved the use of eminent domain to acquire a lot across from the Montclair Police headquarters for redevelopment as a parking lot. The land is...
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Here are some of the headlines from the towns around Verona this week: Eight different police departments converged on West Essex High School on Tuesday after the North Caldwell police were tipped that a female student had possibly brought a gun inside the school. Police removed the student from the school, and, after searching...
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