Superintendent Pulls New Contract From Board Vote
Superintendent Dr. Rui Dionisio The Verona Board of Education was supposed to vote this evening on a new contract for Superintendent Dr. Rui Dionisio. Instead, Dionisio opened the meeting by announcing...
View ArticleVerona Roots Shaped TCNJ President
Band and sports were important to Kate Foster when she was a VHS student, and they are still part of her life as Dr. Kathryn A. Foster, president of TCNJ. (Photo courtesy Andrew Sislak, TCNJ) What...
View ArticleNewark Toy Drive Is Falling Short
On Wednesday, Verona High School students will need to pack up all the toys they will bring to Newark’s Hawkins Street School and Salomé Ureña Elementary School and they are still about 450 toys short...
View ArticleHonor Roll: Grade 5, 1st Marking Period 2019-2020
Yvette McNeal and David Galbierczyk, principals of H.B. Whitehorne Middle School, are proud to announce the names of those fifth grade students who have earned academic recognition during the first...
View ArticleHigh Honor Roll: Grade 5, 1st Marking Period 2019-2020
Yvette McNeal and David Galbierczyk, principals of H.B. Whitehorne Middle School, are proud to announce the names of those fifth grade students who have earned academic recognition during the first...
View ArticleHonor Roll: Grade 6, 1st Marking Period 2019-2020
Yvette McNeal and David Galbierczyk, principals of H.B. Whitehorne Middle School, are proud to announce the names of those sixth grade students who have earned academic recognition during the first...
View ArticleKindergarten Registration Opens In January
Kindergarten registration for the 2020-2021 year in Verona Public Schools will take place January 6 to 10, 2020. Parents whose children will be five years old before October 1, 2020 are urged to...
View ArticleHigh Honor Roll: Grade 6, 1st Marking Period 2019-2020
Yvette McNeal and David Galbierczyk, principals of H.B. Whitehorne Middle School, are proud to announce the names of those sixth grade students who have earned academic recognition during the first...
View ArticleHonor Roll: Grade 7, 1st Marking Period 2019-2020
Yvette McNeal and David Galbierczyk, principals of H.B. Whitehorne Middle School, are proud to announce the names of those seventh grade students who have earned academic recognition during the first...
View ArticleHigh Honor Roll: Grade 7, 1st Marking Period 2019-2020
Yvette McNeal and David Galbierczyk, principals of H.B. Whitehorne Middle School, are proud to announce the names of those seventh grade students who have earned academic recognition during the first...
View ArticleReferendum Construction Alters 20-21 School Calendar
Almost as soon as the current school ends in June, the heavy work on Verona’s schools that was approved in the November referendum will begin. To make sure that it all gets done before the 2020-2021...
View ArticleHonor Roll: Grade 8, 1st Marking Period 2019-2020
Yvette McNeal and David Galbierczyk, principals of H.B. Whitehorne Middle School, are proud to announce the names of those eighth grade students who have earned academic recognition during the first...
View ArticleSupport For Newark Gift Drive Overflows
Early this week, the Verona High School Student Council was concerned that its annual gift drive wouldn’t get enough gifts to brighten the holidays for two Newark elementary schools. But the Verona...
View ArticleHigh Honor Roll: Grade 8, 1st Marking Period 2019-2020
Yvette McNeal and David Galbierczyk, principals of H.B. Whitehorne Middle School, are proud to announce the names of those eighth grade students who have earned academic recognition during the first...
View ArticleHBW History Class Hosts Local Barrier Breaker
“You know, every year is the 50th anniversary of something.” That’s how Hilda Jaffe began her presentation to Maggie Manning’s eighth grade National History Day class at H.B. Whitehorne Middle School...
View ArticleVHS To Send 9 Business Students To State Competition
While most Verona High School students were drifting back to school last Thursday, the VHS chapter of the international business education club DECA sent 30 competitors–the largest VHS contingent in...
View ArticlePocketbook Bingo Raises Funds For Project Graduation
This past Sunday, January 12, the VHS Class of 2021 Project Graduation Committee hosted “Designer Pocketbook Bingo” at the Parsippany PAL. Over 175 women attended, and the winner of each of the 10...
View ArticleVHS To Hold Open House
Verona High School is inviting students in Grade 8 at H.B. Whitehorne or other schools in the area and their parents to learn more about VHS at an open house on Thursday, January 30 at 7 p.m. During...
View ArticleVHS Alumni Return To Talk About College
Right before heading off to a well-deserved winter break, Verona High School juniors and seniors had the opportunity to meet with past VHS graduates and talk about college. Naturally, most students...
View ArticleVerona History Comes To VHS
The tensions highlighted by the Newark riots of 1967, which some historians now call the Newark Rebellion, were a backdrop to Verona’s busing program. On December 10, 2019, AP U.S. History (APUSH)...
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