Verona got creative in the snow yesterday. Emma Zalewski built this snow dragon with her brother and Ian and their dad, Tom Zalewski. You can see the finishing touches that Ian added, and other snowmen and snow sculptures, in the Snow Creatures album on MyVeronaNJ’s Facebook page. Have a snow creature that the world...
Read More »
We’ll confess: We thought it was a bit nuts last week when an Essex County legislator proposed punishing snowplow drivers who plow in driveways that have already been cleared. How else, after all, are we going to keep our streets passable? But watching our neighbors shovel today for the fourth and fifth time since...
Read More »
The crossing guard stationed near FN Brown Elementary School was hit yesterday around 1 pm as he concluded his shift crossing students and parents leaving school early due to the snow storm. According to Police Chief Doug Huber, the guard, whose name he could not specify due to medical privacy regulations, was crossing the...
Read More »
The Global Connect call just came through: Verona public schools will be closed tomorrow, February 26. Our Lady of the Lake school will be closed as well. Verona joins the public schools in Montclair, Bloomfield, Glen Ridge and North Caldwell, as well as Mount Saint Dominic Academy. That’s the list so far, but there...
Read More »
That’s what the pundits at NJ.com are calling today’s storm because of the prospect of heavy snow and winds later. Our Lady of the Lake closed its schools from the get-go this morning, but the public schools, perhaps in an attempt to preserve our last snow day, held a half day and closed up...
Read More »
UPDATE: SCHOOLS WILL CLOSE AT 12:30. You probably know by now that the National Weather Service says there is a “major” snow storm headed our way on Thursday. We’ve been trying to track down events that are being canceled and here’s what we’ve got so far. Essex County has called off the deer hunt...
Read More »
Verona Public Works plows were still out today, a week after the blizzard. But today the snow job was removing the towering mounds of white stuff that obstruct the vision of drivers trying to make turns at big intersections like this one, at Sunset and Bloomfield Avenues. Clearing the corners also makes it easier...
Read More »
The last few winters haven’t been particularly kind to ski resort operators in New Jersey. While this year’s snowfall isn’t much, it’s enough that you can consider heading to the mountains of the Garden State rather than to those of our neighbors to the north. So on Wednesday, we headed to Hidden Valley in...
Read More »
Here’s a little gift for all of you planning on getting in a few days of skiing over Winter Break: Another snowstorm is headed our way tonight. According to the National Weather Service, this will be a more modest snowfall than last week’s shovel-buster. Maybe two to three inches by tomorrow evening, with more...
Read More »
Essex County has let us know that, because of the snow, it has canceled hunting at Eagle Rock Reservation and the Hilltop Reservation today as part of its program to reduce the deer population at both parks. This means that Fairview Avenue will be open to traffic as usual and that the parks will...
Read More »
Tuesday, Sep 7Wednesday, Sep 8
Thursday, Sep 9
