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OLL School Open House January 22
Spanish class at OLLOur Lady of the Lake School, a National Blue Ribbon School, is hosting an open house on Thursday, January 22 from 7 to 8 p.m. and Tuesday, January 27 from 9 to 11 a.m. All families...
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College Workshop Wednesday
Allison Wright, a Verona resident, has let us know that there’s a college planning workshop in Montclair on Wednesday, January 21, for parents of high school students from all surrounding towns. The...
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Forest Avenue SCA To Hold Casino Night
Save the night of night of Saturday March 28 for a Forest Avenue School fundraiser. The school’s SCA is holding a “Bet On The Bulldogs” Casino Night and Tricky Tray Auction from 7 to 11 p.m. at the...
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Verona Makes New ‘Best Schools’ List
Nerdwallet.com usually writes about the best credit cards and mortgages you can get. But on Sunday, it came out with a list of “Best School Districts for Your Buck in New Jersey“, and Verona is on the...
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F.N. Brown Plans March Tricky Tray
The F.N. Brown School Community Association is hosting a Tricky Tray on March 18 at the Westmount Country Club. Ticket sales are now open to the public. Tickets are $55 and include passed hors...
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Early School Dismissal Called For Monday
The Verona Board of Education has called for an early dismissal at 12:30 p.m. on Monday because of the impending winter storm called Juno. All after-school activities are cancelled. According to the...
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Mock Trial Team Competes In Tournament
The Verona High School Mock Trial team recently participated in the first round of the Essex County Mock Trial Tournament at Veterans Courthouse in Newark. The VHS team is comprised of four student...
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Save The Date For VFEE Fundraiser
A VFEE grant brought members of the Red Hawk Native American Arts Council to speak about Native American history and culture.The Verona Foundation for Educational Excellence (VFEE) will hold its annual...
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Superintendent Warns About Driver
Superintendent Rui Dionisio sent an email to public school parents on Sunday morning warning about a suspicious driver on the Forest Avenue side of town. According to the email, on Friday morning a...
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Snow Day 2: Verona Public Schools Closed
At about 5:35 a.m., Verona joined a long list of school districts closed by the winter storm called Linus. All after-school activities and sports have also been cancelled. This is the second of the...
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Learn About The Common Core
A group of parents from Verona and neighboring towns are holding an educational event on the Common Core State Standards Initiative on Saturday, February 21. The Common Core is a nationwide educational...
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SAT Boot Camp At VHS In March
In just one weekend, come learn everything you need to know to outsmart the SAT from the only prep company whose curriculum developers have earned multiple perfect scores (2400) on the test. With...
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BOE To Assess Opposition To PARCC
Richard Rampolla, principal of Brookdale Avenue School, sought to allay concerns about the PARCC voiced by parents at the BOE meeting.Even as Verona’s public schools get ready to hold information...
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Superintendent’s Corner: PARCC Information Nights
“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” Henry Ford Dear Verona Parents and Guardians, Verona Public Schools continues to provide an outstanding...
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Op-Ed: PARCC Matters, For All The Wrong Reasons
OPINIONThere is growing opposition across our state and across the country against the new Common Core standards and PARCC testing that will be administered beginning in March of this year. Child...
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Parents Sponsor Common Core Event
An educational event on the Common Core is planned for Saturday, February 21, at 1 p.m. at the Bethwood, 38 Lackawanna Avenue, Totowa, NJ 07512. What is the Common Core that is in our schools? Two...
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Sweeney Gets Scholarship To Berkeley College
Samantha Lee Sweeney of Verona and Byron Hargrove, PhD, Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, Berkeley College School of Liberal Arts. Ms. Sweeney received a scholarship to attend Berkeley...
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OLL School Teaches Entrepreneurship
Last Friday, the seventh and eighth grade at Our Lady of the Lake School began a six-week program called TREP$ that teaches them about entrepreneurship. The students are working at home on developing...
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VHS Students Win French Video Contest
On Friday, February 6, Verona High School French students visited Montclair State University for a day of French immersion. Prior to the event, they created and filmed a short video that highlighted...
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10% Of Verona Students Refuse To Take PARCC
Today was the first day of testing in Verona for the new statewide standardized test prepared by the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), and 10% of Verona’s...
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