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Forest Avenue School Celebrates Teachers
Did you happen to drive by Forest Avenue Elementary School this week? Notice those green lawn signs? While this year’s Teacher Appreciation Week took a new virtual approach, the Forest Avenue SCA put...
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VHS Debate Club Connects With Brazil
Verona High School has a small Debate Club, which usually participates in events close to home. But on May 6, the VHS club used video conferencing technology to talk about debating with students...
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How The Pandemic Has Transformed The College Experience And Could Transform...
Rutgers University is anticipating a $200 million budget shortfall this fiscal year because of the pandemic. This story was written and produced by NJ Spotlight. It is being republished under a special...
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VHS ’61 Seeks Missing Classmates
Ted Spitzmiller graduated Verona High School with the class of 1961 and he keeps the list of the whereabouts of his 203 classmates. He needs updates on several of them, and hopes the readers of...
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UNICO Verona Scholarship Applications Available
2019 UNICO scholarship winners with Committee Chair Nancy Magrans (far right) and then Chapter President Michael Ruglio (far left). The Verona chapter of UNICO National celebrates its 50th anniversary...
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VHS Announces Plans For 2020 Graduation
Verona High School announced the plans for the class of 2020’s graduation and it is safe to say there has never been a graduation like it. The school is going to film individual students and their...
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NJ Schools To Get $280M In Federal Emergency Aid, But Future Still Uncertain
Newark schools like Barringer High School share $19.3 million in aid. This story was written and produced by NJ Spotlight. It is being republished under a special NJ News Commons content-sharing...
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VHS ’70 Seeks Two Members For 50th Reunion
A day after the Verona High School class of 1961 reached out for help locating several of its members, Bill France of VHS ’70 asked for help finding two of its members: Michael T. Brazell and...
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Alumni Association Extends Scholarship Deadline For Non-VHS Students
The Verona High School Alumni Association (VHSAA) offers two scholarships every year to graduating seniors, one for VHS students and the other to non-VHS students who had at least one parent, guardian...
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State Colleges Urge Students To ‘Come Home’ This Fall
The New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is one of the 10 state colleges participating in #NJComeHome. New Jersey’s public colleges have a message for students who have been studying out of state:...
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BOE, Mayor Address Virtual Graduation Objections
Last Friday, Verona High School announced plans for a virtual graduation ceremony that would involve videotaping students individually before graduation and then streaming a combined video on...
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Fine Print: NJ School Boards’ Report Starts Conversation On Reopening
Title: “Searching for a ‘New Normal’ in New Jersey’s Public Schools” Author: The New Jersey School Boards Association, representing more than 500 public boards of education statewide. What it is: The...
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Schools Kick Off Mental Health Week
May is mental health awareness month and Verona’s public schools are closing it out with a mental health awareness week for students and their families, and the Verona community at large. The week is...
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No Immediate Cuts In State Aid To Schools In Murphy’s Revised 2020 Spending Plan
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In-Person Graduation? Maybe
Today, Gov. Phil Murphy announced on Twitter and Instagram that New Jersey schools will be able to hold outdoor graduation ceremonies as of July 6, but they must comply with social distancing rules....
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VHS Creative Arts Festival Goes Online
The last Wednesday in May is traditionally the date of the Creative Arts Festival at Verona High School. It still is this year, but because of COVID-19, you will be viewing all the art online. The...
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VHS Takes On The Getty Museum Challenge
In late March, when people no longer could come to visit its collection in person because of the COVID-19 pandemic, J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles issued a challenge: Recreate a piece of art from...
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NJ Slashes School Aid: $182K Hit To Verona Budget
In February, Gov. Phil Murphy said Verona would be getting more of the school aid that it is supposed to get under the state’s education funding formula. Verona hasn’t been getting its full...
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That All Men Are Created Equal
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of...
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Minette’s Angels Awards 4 Scholarships
Arianna Tietjen The Minette’s Angels Foundation has awarded four $1,000 scholarships to high school seniors. Skyler Freedman and Andrew Emanuilidis, both Verona High School students, were each awarded...
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