Vote Tuesday For Board Of Ed, Governor, State Races
Tuesday, November 5 is election day. Polling locations in Verona will be open 6 a.m. until 8 p.m. It’s also a half day for all Verona public school students in case you’ve forgotten. There are several...
View ArticleBoard Of Education To Meet Tuesday Night
The Verona Board of Education has moved up its first November meeting to tonight, November 5, from next week. Among the things that will be decided at tonight’s meeting is the naming of the successor...
View ArticleDay, Unis Win Board Of Education Election
Jim Day In an upset, challenger Jim Day ousted three-term Board of Education member Glenn Elliot in Tuesday’s election. Incumbent Michael Unis was elected to a third term. The unofficial tallies were:...
View ArticleBoard Of Ed Names Spardel To Fill Unexpired Term
(l-r) Steve Spardel, Donald Flood, George Sidrak, Anthony Gaeta, Dominic Ferry, Ellen Conover, and Anthony Gardner addressed the Board of Education last month.The Verona Board of Education picked...
View ArticleThird Place For VHS Teacher On AFV
Danielle Mutovic’s miniature poodle, Betty.Danielle Mutovic and her miniature poodle, Betty, took home third place on “America’s Funniest Home Videos” tonight. As we told you earlier this fall, the...
View ArticleFiedler To Perform At NJPAC
Alex Fiedler (front row above in red) is representing Verona High School in the All-State Mixed Chorus. He sang in Atlantic City this past Friday and will be singing at the New Jersey Performing Arts...
View ArticleVo-Tech School Open House
Bloomfield Tech offers electrician training.On Saturday, November 23, County Executive DiVincenzo and the Essex County Vocational Technical School District invite seventh- and eighth-grade students...
View ArticleImportant Public Presentation At BOE Meeting
Important Public Presentation at Verona BOE Meeting When: Tuesday November 26, 2013 at 6:00 PM Where: Verona High School Library What: Round II of public presentations about the planned referendum to...
View ArticleBerkeley College Honors George Sidrak
Berkeley College recently honored George Sidrak, RMA, CCMA, CBCS, Faculty, Medical Assistant, with the 2013 Faculty of the Year Award for excellence in on-site instruction in the School of Health...
View ArticleVFEE Funds Physics Teaching Tool At VHS
Physics and trigonometry are everywhere! That’s what math teacher Mark Russo and science teacher Jon-Eric Burgess are teaching Verona students through the use of a new contractor’s transit. The...
View ArticleVHS Mandarin Class Learns Origami
Verona High School’s Mandarin teacher, Betty Hou, invited guest speaker and close friend, Amy Mai to give students a taste of the Chinese culture. Mai is an architect for her own company in New York...
View ArticleRing Found, 35 Years Later
A week or so ago, John Davila was raking leaves in his Sunset Avenue yard when he came upon something that definitely didn’t fall from a tree. It was a woman’s ring from the Verona High School class of...
View ArticleState OKs $3.5M Grant For School Referendum Work
Most of the work planned in the referendum would be carried out at VHS.The Verona Board of Education has received a state grant of $3,564,402 to help fund the work proposed under our planned...
View ArticlePublic School Email Down
Verona’s public schools have sent out an email saying that the district is experiencing an email outage. No, we’re not sure how they did that. “Email became unavailable at approximately 8 am this...
View ArticleDelayed Opening Monday
Verona public schools will have a delayed opening on Monday, December 9, due to the overnight snow. All students should report at 10 a.m. According to the National Weather Service, we’re going to have...
View ArticleSnow Cancels After-School Activities
The roads are clear in Verona now and sanded, but the Board of Education has cancelled all after-school activities today. The YMCA, however, will operate its after-care program normally. The National...
View ArticleHBW Library Lends E-Books
The world of e-books has expanded tremendously over the past several years, as have the ways in which they can be read. Thanks to a 2011 grant from the Verona Foundation for Educational Excellence...
View ArticleAbsenteeism Spiked In Snow Storm
While 11 cars were sliding into each other when the snow storm hit on Tuesday morning, some parents were apparently opting to forego the trip to school altogether. According to Steve Forte, the...
View ArticleVMAC Talks To VHS Students About Alcohol Poisoning
The Verona High School administration, guidance, health and athletic departments partnered with the Verona Police Department to bring Aware Awake Alive to VHS students on November 27. The mission was...
View ArticleVerona Schools Closed Tuesday
Melanie Balestro Franco made this snow buddha during February’s storm.In case you didn’t get the message that just went out to the landlines, cell phones and emails of all Verona public schools...
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