VHS senior Isabella Hussar (right) did her Capstone interning for Christine Clarke (left), the Democratic candidate for New Jersey state Senate. For the last month, the Verona High School class of 2021 has been spending its time in businesses, not classrooms, as part of the annual senior Capstone. Isabella Hussar, however, spent her time on the front lines of New Jersey politics, the first VHS student to do a Capstone that way. Hussar interned on Christine Clarke’s state Senate campaign for District 26, which includes Verona, to get a jump on her intended Rutgers University majors, political science and journalism. “A local campaign runs very differently than a big election like a general presidential election,” Hussar says, “and I thought that getting this experience would give me an idea of what I want to go into because it is working for a real campaign.”