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Lorraine Ash

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lash@dailyvoice.com

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Lorraine Ash has been a reporter/editor in her native New Jersey since 1982, the year she earned her master’s degree in Public Communications from Fordham University. Her articles have gained global, national, state, and regional attention and awards and have appeared in a number of newspapers, including USA Today. She has worked for publications such as Family Circle Magazine, The Ridgewood News, and the Daily Record. Lorraine also has penned two memoirs and teaches memoir writing. Experience has taught her that everyone has a compelling story to tell. Have a story the community needs to hear? Email her. She’d love to hear from you.

Lorraine was formerly a reporter at Daily Voice.

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Ridgewood Water Holds Forums On Annual Quality Report RIDGEWOOD, N.J. — Ridgewood Water is holding two forums on its 2016 Annual Drinking Water Quality Report, according to Village Manager Roberta Sonenfeld. The first is to take place 9 a.m. July 27 in the courtroom at Village Hall and the second at 7 p.m. Aug. 2 in the youth center at Village Hall. “We would like to have an opportunity to explain this report to you as well as to answer any of your questions regarding Ridgewood Water,” Sonenfeld said in an emailed notice to consumers. Residents from all the municipalities served by Ridgewood Water – Glen Rock, Midland Park, Wyckoff, and Ridge…

by Lorraine Ash

07/26/2016

Business

Hillsdale Man Turns Back Clock On Business Values HILLSDALE, N.J. — There are times Russell Andrews has fixed a watch or a clock in his Hillsdale shop, Andrews Clocks and Watches, for a cup of coffee or a bowl of fruit. Saturday, he sat at this worktable, dealing with customer after customer lining up for his advice and craftsmanship. For Andrews, this table is the center of the universe. All around him is the ticking and tocking of antique grandfather clocks, carriage clocks, desk clocks, and much more. Occasionally, a bell or cuckoo sounds. During a break in the customer flow, Andrew reflected on what he does for a living in the age o…

by Lorraine Ash

07/26/2016

News

Officials Demand Answers At Bergenfield Oil Train Forum BERGENFIELD, N.J. — Local officials gave an earful Monday night in Bergenfield to representatives of CSX Transportation, whose trains carry volatile Bakken crude oil through Bergen County. The rail company transports the crude from oil fields from the Bakken Shale in North Dakota to refineries here in the East. At issue are worries that an accident as serious as a 2013 74-car freight train derailment in Quebec -- caused Bakken tank cars to explode and killed 42 people. The forum in the municipal building was called by U.S. Rep. Scott Garrett (R-Dist. 5), who told attendees that he's walked…

by Lorraine Ash

07/25/2016

News

New Digs, Patients For Hackensack's Bergen Volunteer Medical Initiative HACKENSACK, N.J. — Bergen County’s healthcare safety net is recruiting new patients and moving to a larger space. In November, the Bergen Volunteer Medical Initiative in Hackensack is moving from its 3,400-square-foot facility to a 5,000-square-foot digs at the corner of Essex and State streets. The current facility is slated to be demolished under Hackensack’s revitalization plan. BVMI, which runs completely on private donations, has an outreach campaign going in Englewood. “Out of our 1,000 patients, 375 are from Hackensack and 50 are from Englewood,” said Amanda Missey, president and …

by Lorraine Ash

07/25/2016

Events

They Take Their Yoga Alfresco In Northvale NORTHVALE, N.J. - Odalis Recchia, owner of Purple Mat Yoga, will lead "Yoga Mondays: Alfresco in August" on the Northvale Library Front Lawn at 5 p.m. Aug. 1, 8, 15, and 29.Recchia embraced yoga after she experienced the transformation the practice brought to her body and mind, according to the Purple Mat website. She graduated Ramapo College’s Yoga Certification Program and attended Young Mountain Yoga Children’s Certification Program. She also is involved with Indian dance aerobics and Thai Yoga Massage. The August library series is available to Northvale and Rockleigh residents…

by Lorraine Ash

07/25/2016

Events

Calling All Folkies: Duo To Play Hillsdale Concert HILLSDALE, N.J. - The Hillsdale Summer Concert Series hosts The Levins, a folk duo, at Veteran's Park 7:30 p.m. July 27.Ira and Julia Levin, award-winning musicians, will play an array of songs from their CDs, some covers, and a new tune or two. The couple met at an open mic at the Freight and Salvage in Berkeley, California, a singer-songwriter competition held by the West Coast Songwriters Association. They married in 2002 and in late 2010, they left their respective bands and moved to New York to pursue music together. They've performed in the Netherlands, England, and throughout the U…

by Lorraine Ash

07/25/2016

Business

Paramus Mall Jumps On Pokemon Craze With Contest PARAMUS, N.J. - The Westfield Garden State Plaza in Paramus has jumped on the Pokemon Go bandwagon with numerous Poke stops around the mall.To find them, follow the mall's Facebook page. Every day, from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. through July 30, the public is invited to share their catches with the mall on Facebook or Instagram using the hashtags #westfieldgsp and #pokestopgsp. Those who do will be entered into a raffle to win a $100 Westfield gift card. Photos must be of Pokemon inside the Westfield Garden State Plaza and accounts must be public so the mall can view the pictures and enter people …

by Lorraine Ash

07/25/2016

Events

Teaneck Cultural Center Features Night Of Balkan Music TEANECK, N.J. -Tavche Gravche will deliver a Macedonian/Mediterranean sound infused with the energy of Balkan music 7 p.m. July 29 at the Puffin Cultural Forum in Teaneck.The trio released its debut album, "Our Village," two years ago. Clarinetist Vasko Dukovski, born in Macedonia, is a graduate of the Juilliard School, according to the Parlor Series blog. Also featured are Israeli-born guitarist Dan Nadel, who is steeped in both the jazz and flamenco traditions, and jazz bassist Daniel Ori, also from Israel, the group’s founder. The Puffin Cultural Forum is a gallery and performa…

by Lorraine Ash

07/25/2016

Events

Wyckoff Monday Movie Series Features Hollywood Comedy WYCKOFF, N.J. - The Wyckoff Free Public Library offers a cool alternative to the heat wave 2 p.m. Monday with a showing of "Hail, Caesar," part of its "Mondays at the Movies" series. The 2016 comedy, starring George Clooney, features a slick fixer in Hollywood's Golden Age -- 1920s to 1960s - who is pressed into action when a superstar actor is kidnapped and held for ransom by an unknown group. Working around a couple of gossip columnists adds to the fun. The film also features Josh Brolin, Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes, and Frances McDormand.

by Lorraine Ash

07/25/2016

Events

'Jersey Belle' Star To Sign Books In Ridgewood RIDGEWOOD, N.J. - Jamie Primak Sullivan, the star of Bravo TV's "Jersey Belle," will sign copies of her new book, "The Southern Education of a Jersey Girl" at 7 p.m. Aug. 2 at Bookends in Ridgewood. Sullivan is a publicist, producer and writer as well as the creative producer and star of #cawfeetawk & "Jersey Belle." In her memoir, she writes about her life as a transplant in an affluent suburb of Birmingham, Alabama, where her Jersey style threatens the rules of Southern etiquette. Her book shares, according to its Amazon description, "hard-learned le…

by Lorraine Ash

07/25/2016

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