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Lorraine Ash

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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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Activists From Bergen, Passaic Join Climate March Activists From Bergen, Passaic Join Climate March
Activists From Bergen, Passaic Join Climate March PARAMUS, N.J. — Carrying signs and chanting, some two dozen anti-fracking activists left Paramus Sunday morning to join 10,000 others at the March for a Clean Energy Revolution in Philadelphia. They are members and friends of Food and Water Watch New Jersey, 350NJ, GreenFaith, the Coalition to Ban Unsafe Oil Trains, and labor groups. The Bergen contingent joined those from dozens of other buses from this region at Philadephia City Hall at noon on the eve of the Democratic National Convention (DNC). The Ramapough Lunaape Nation also sent a contingent from Ringwood. Turtle Clan Chief Vincent…

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Events
Food Truck Fans Flood Ho-Ho-Kus Festival Food Truck Fans Flood Ho-Ho-Kus Festival
Food Truck Fans Flood Ho-Ho-Kus Festival HO-HO-KUS, N.J. — Some 1,200 people were eating and relaxing at The Hermitage Food Truck Festival in Ho-Ho-Kus by midafternoon in Ho-Ho-Kus Saturday. “This is exceeding our expectations,” said Michael Orbe of Ho-Ho-Kus, president of the Friends of the Hermitage, which runs The Hermitage Museum, a Victorian Gothic house. Amid the picturesque backdrop of the five-acre Revolutionary War-era site, the food truck aficionados enjoyed the shade of centuries-old trees. They listened to live music as they waited, sometimes for more than an hour, to get their goodies at some of the most popular foo…

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Business
Old Values, New Age For Wyckoff Pharmacist Old Values, New Age For Wyckoff Pharmacist
Old Values, New Age For Wyckoff Pharmacist WYCKOFF, N.J. — David M. Miller, a third-generation pharmacist at Millers Homecare and Compounding Pharmacy in Wyckoff, has been named Independent Pharmacist of the Year. The award, announced this week by the New Jersey Pharmacists Association, recognizes Miller's service to patients and the community for the past 36 years. There have been many changes in the industry since his grandfather, Robert Miller, founded the pharmacy in 1929. “The biggest was computerizing the profession back in the ’80s,” Miller said. “That gave insurance companies control over all aspects of billing. “Now,” he …

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Neighbors
West Milford Indian Chief: Too Many Ramapoughs Are Suffering West Milford Indian Chief: Too Many Ramapoughs Are Suffering
West Milford Indian Chief: Too Many Ramapoughs Are Suffering WEST MILFORD, N.J. — Vincent Mann of West Milford, the Turtle Clan Chief of the Ramapough Lunaape Nation in Passaic County, is leading a dwindling number of people. There used to be more than 80 homes in their neighborhood next to a Ford Motor Company Superfund site in Upper Ringwood. “Now there are 47 homes and 140 souls living there,” Mann said. “Hundreds have died,” he added, “but hundreds have left in search of a better life for their children. One 10-year-old boy was diagnosed with two rare cancers.” New Jersey has recognized the Ramapoughs as a band of the Munsee — Native American L…

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Garfield Looking To Be More Senior Friendly Garfield Looking To Be More Senior Friendly
Garfield Looking To Be More Senior Friendly RIDGEWOOD, N.J. — The Age-Friendly Ridgewood Initiative invites the public to a forum next Wednesday to brainstorm ways to keep older people from leaving the village. Billed as a community conversation, “Making Ridgewood Age Friendly” is to take place 7-9 p.m. in the Ridgewood Public Library Auditorium. The event trails a Ridgewood 55 And Older Survey mailed last October to all 6,000 village residents in the age group. It was sent by a subcommittee of the Ridgewood Community Center Advisory Board, which is spearheading the project. “We wanted to find out why people are leaving, what would …

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Ridgewood Teacher Negotiations Resume Wednesday Ridgewood Teacher Negotiations Resume Wednesday
Ridgewood Teacher Negotiations Resume Wednesday RIDGEWOOD, N.J. — The Ridgewood Board of Education and Ridgewood Education Association will meet with a state-appointed super conciliator Wednesday night to break a year-long impasse on teacher contracts. The closed-door meeting will take place at 5 p.m. at the village Education Center at 49 Cottage Place. In a statement released Monday night, the board stated it is committed to settling the contract before the 2016-2017 school year begins. Students resume classes on Sept. 6. “The Board is prepared to stay as long as needed to finalize the settlement and reach agreement on a successor co…

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Lifestyle
Patients Explore New Medical Trends At Maywood Meetup Patients Explore New Medical Trends At Maywood Meetup
Patients Explore New Medical Trends At Maywood Meetup MAYWOOD, N.J. — Even Chiropractor Philip DiPasquale was surprised when 13 people showed up last week for the first meeting of his Maywood Wellness Meetup. The subject that attracted them is functional medicine. Functional healthcare practitioners include some medical doctors, osteopathic doctors, chiropractors, and dietitians. They’re all on the same page in that they treat the causes — not the symptoms — of disease. “In the meetup we are educating the consumer on what choices they have in health care,” said DiPasquale of New Milford. He uses a functional medical approach in his Maywood p…

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Business
Wyckoff Moms Edit World To Better Place Wyckoff Moms Edit World To Better Place
Wyckoff Moms Edit World To Better Place WYCKOFF, N.J. — Lisa Ambrose and Gwen Sikora were both Wyckoff moms when they conceived of their new editing business, The Write Message. They realized their mutual obsession with apostrophes and other grammar problems from each other’s Facebook posts. “I was at a nail salon and saw a sign: GIFT CERTIFICATIONS AVAILABLE,” said Ambrose, 43, of Wyckoff, who soon will hold a doctorate in Communications from Rutgers University. “It’s a shame because the salon paid for that sign,” she added. “The printers never take liability. They print exactly what you give them.” The pair sees potential cli…

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Business
Saddle Brook Nurse Opens Salt Therapy Sanctuary Saddle Brook Nurse Opens Salt Therapy Sanctuary
Saddle Brook Nurse Opens Salt Therapy Sanctuary FAIR LAWN, N.J. — Everything about the healing Himalayan salt room at Salt Breeze in Fair Lawn is designed to soothe. The floor is a bed of pink salts. The walls are lined with salts that radiate a rotating rainbow spectrum of colored light. Then there’s the halo generator. “The main benefit comes from the generator pumping salt powder into the air,” explained Salt Breeze founder Oksana Sheremeta of Saddle Brook. Before she opened the business in April, Sheremeta was a surgery nurse at Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck. Salt Breeze is a perfect meshing of her medical and cultural back…

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News
Just Pups Owner Enters Not Guilty Plea In Emerson Court Just Pups Owner Enters Not Guilty Plea In Emerson Court
Just Pups Owner Enters Not Guilty Plea In Emerson Court EMERSON, N.J. — Vincent LoSacco, owner of Just Pups pet stores, pleaded not guilty in Municipal Court on Thursday to six summonses for operations at his now-closed Emerson location, according to a report in NorthJersey.com. LoSacco closed his Emerson shop Wednesday hours after the Borough Council voted not to issue him a new license. The embattled pet store owner came to court without an attorney and was given a two-week postponement. READ THE FULL STORY HERE.

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