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Fellenberg Selected For California Fellowship
Miles Fellenberg, a 2007 graduate of Verona High School, will be in Santa Barbara, Calif. for the next eight weeks, participating as a Music Academy Fellow in the collaborative piano program, at The...
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VHS Graduation 2012
Edward Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance” kicks off every graduation, but the Verona High School seniors who delivered a jazzy rendition of the 1939 Arlen-Harburg classic “Over The Rainbow” did a much...
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Police Take Drug Awareness Program To Schools
Every year, the Verona P.B.A. Local 72 brings the drug abuse education program D.A.R.E. to fifth graders at Our Lady of the Lake School (above) and H.B. Whitehorne Middle School (below). Officers Dan...
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OLL Student Wins Life-Saving Award
Olivia Fisher, a fourth-grade student at Our Lady of the Lake School and a member of OLL School’s Junior Girl Scout Troop 20515, was awarded the National Girl Scout Medal of Honor in late May. The...
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Class Of 2012 College, Career Plans
At last week’s graduation, the Class of 2012′s salutatorian, Filip Babalievsky, made a point of noting that many them would be venturing far from Verona soon. And so they are, to gap years and careers,...
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What’s Next For VHS 2012: Fighting Fires
Most members of the Verona High School class of 2012 will need a few more years of education to do what they want to do in life. Joe Festa gets to start on his dreams right now. Festa is trading his...
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HBW Students Make Public Service Spot
One of last year’s winning posters For the last two years, the Verona Environmental Commission has been trying to get Verona parents to turn off their car engines when they are waiting for their...
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What’s Next For VHS ’12: Math And Science
As the valedictorian of the Verona High School Class of 2012, Heather Sweeney pretty much had her choice of colleges. She toured many of them, but nothing seemed to fit. “Cornell had a gorgeous...
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Chaperone Policy? Other Schools Have One
If you want to be a parent chaperone for a school field trip in Towson County, Maryland, you will be given a document that outlines what is expected of you. Number one on the list: You can’t drink...
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What’s Next For VHS ’12: Film School
Netflix, the Internet movie service, has 26 million subscribers worldwide. Just a few days ago, the CEO of Netflix announced that these subscribers had watched a total of 1 billion hours of video in...
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School Board Loses Employee Termination Case
The Verona Board of Education has been found to have wrongfully denied Judith A. DiNapoli a secretarial position in the district after her job as assistant business administrator was eliminated on...
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State Court Strikes Down 24/7 School Discipline Policy
In a decision that undercuts some aspects of Verona schools’ so-called 24/7 policy, a New Jersey appellate court has struck down a Bergen County school policy that tried to impose a wide-ranging code...
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Middle School Book Reviews
School may be out, but reading is still in in Verona. MyVeronaNJ.com has asked several incoming fifth graders to review some of their favorite books. Artemis Fowl is on the suggested reading list for...
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What’s Next For VHS ’12: Baking
Alison Sprong is just about the only member of the Verona High School class of 2012 who is not worried about what the college cafeteria will serve. That’s because she will spend part of her time at the...
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School Board Appeals Employee Termination Case
The Verona Board of Education has appealed a finding by a state administrative law judge that it wrongfully denied Judith A. DiNapoli a secretarial position in the district after her job as assistant...
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The New Teacher Tenure Law
On Monday, Gov. Chris Christie signed the Teacher Effectiveness and Accountability for the Children of NJ Act–a big mouthful that means it will be harder for New Jersey teachers to get tenure and...
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Minette’s Angels Awards Scholarships
Four Verona High School seniors were recipients of Minette’s Angels Foundation scholarships earlier this summer. Maggie Dougherty, Dayna DellaValle (both pictured), Molly Cummings and Nic Hennig each...
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Band Car Wash This Saturday
Last year’s drum line, at competition. On Saturday, August 25 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Verona’s own Marching Maroon and White will run their annual car wash in the Verona High School driveway. The...
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VHS Drops In ‘NJ Monthly’ Ranking
Verona High School has fallen to 70 from 53 in New Jersey Monthly magazine’s new ranking of the state’s top high schools. But before you grab a torch and pitchfork and head for the Board of Education...
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Volunteers Keep HBW Beautiful
Olivia Morgan of Cerebral Palsy of North Jersey (pictured above) volunteered her time to take care of the new foundation plantings at H. B. Whitehorne this summer. Members of Cerebral Palsy of North...
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