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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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Business
7 Years Strong: Allendale Eats Serving Up Free Anniversary Breakfast 7 Years Strong: Allendale Eats Serving Up Free Anniversary Breakfast
7 Years Strong: Allendale Eats Serving Up Free Anniversary Breakfast ALLENDALE, N.J. – Allendale Eats will celebrate its seven-year anniversary Friday by serving up its Annual Complimentary Customer Appreciation Breakfast Buffet. “It’s for everyone who walks in,” said Denise Kimball, a Glen Rock native and Haskell resident who owns the popular eatery with her son, Kyle Cauwenberghs. Since it opened its doors, Allendale Eats has been a second home to hundreds of hungry diners, many of whom can’t imagine their day without it. Jim Smith, who works down the street, has made his way to lunch counter for several years. “I need to get out of the office,” he said.…

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News
Rerouted Traffic Driving Mahwah Neighborhood Crazy Rerouted Traffic Driving Mahwah Neighborhood Crazy
Rerouted Traffic Driving Mahwah Neighborhood Crazy MAHWAH, N.J. – Kate Nuñez has had it with drivers cutting through her West Mahwah neighborhood when northbound Route 17 backs up. Thanks to GPS and the Waze app, motorists stuck in bottlenecks at the New York State Thruway and Route 287 often make a beeline for northbound Meadow Avenue, which connects to Suffern. “They can cut through Suffern and then get right onto the Thruway,” said Nuñez, who lives on the corner of Meadow and Long avenues. “They think they’re saving themselves so much time.” Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays are the worst. Traffic data collected by the township shows th…

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Business
Ho-Ho-Kus Antiques Dealer Calls His Trade An Adventure Ho-Ho-Kus Antiques Dealer Calls His Trade An Adventure
Ho-Ho-Kus Antiques Dealer Calls His Trade An Adventure HO-HO-KUS, N.J. – For the past 50 years, antiques dealer Maury Alan Lubman of Wayne, owner of Granny’s Attic in Ho-Ho-Kus, has loved coming to work every day. Then again, his three-story workplace is 30,000 square feet of pretty, fascinating, or intriguing merchandise. Granny's, a destination site for antiquers in multiple states, is known as "SoHo in HoHo." “I have enough stuff to fill 100,000 square feet, which no dealer could afford,” he said. “Sometimes treasures are squished together.” There are cigar store Indians, pharaoh sculptures, suits of armor, chandeliers, paintings…

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Sports
Paramus Special Olympics Unifies Student Body Paramus Special Olympics Unifies Student Body
Paramus Special Olympics Unifies Student Body PARAMUS, N.J. – Eighteen students won medals in the district’s first annual Special Olympics Track Meet at Paramus High School Wednesday. The event, which had everyone smiling, was a project of the high school’s two-year-old Unified Sports Club. Such clubs, which are a national movement, are designed to pair special education students with general education students. Together, they mingle in sports and other extracurricular activities as well as during recesses. “The idea is to raise awareness and break stigmas some of the kids may have about students with disabilities,” said Juan Castro,…

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Business
‘Harrington Park Homemade’ Harkens Back ‘Harrington Park Homemade’ Harkens Back
‘Harrington Park Homemade’ Harkens Back HARRINGTON PARK, N.J. – Amanda and Matthew Fichera are making the old Harrington Park Market on LaRoche Avenue into their own shop — Harrington Park Homemade. The white interior charms with its tin ceilings and porcelain enamel wall panels. “It’s so antique,” said Amanda, who grew up in Old Tappan. “I love the feeling of this market.” But it’s the associations and good memories that come with the place that sold the couple on it, too. The butcher, who sold prime meats at the location, was there for more than 50 years. That’s long enough for Amanda’s mother and three aunts, who grew up in…

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Neighbors
WATCH: Mahwah Gymnast Tumbles Into Next Phase Of Career WATCH: Mahwah Gymnast Tumbles Into Next Phase Of Career
Watch: Mahwah Gymnast Tumbles Into Next Phase Of Career MAHWAH, N.J. – After 15 years of leading area gymnastics programs part time, Debby Bassin of Mahwah is ready to open her own Flipper’s Gymnastics facility. Now that the Clarkstown native's children are older — Josh is 12, Audra is 10 — she has the time. There’s a lot to opening such a business. Bassin has identified a 13,000-square-foot facility off Franklin Turnpike in the township. But then there are the matters of getting insurance, hiring two teachers to back her up, creating class plans, dealing with apparatus vendors, buying mats. According to Bassin’s calculations, she needs $80,000…

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Business
Cafe Moncher Becomes Allendale’s Smoothie Central Cafe Moncher Becomes Allendale’s Smoothie Central
Cafe Moncher Becomes Allendale’s Smoothie Central ALLENDALE, N.J. – Ann Choi of Palisades Park pours and mixes the ingredients for a banana bubble tea at the new Café Moncher in downtown Allendale: Banana powder, ice, black tapioca pearls, milk. “We will use any type of milk you like — whole, skim, almond, or soy,” said Choi, 24, who opened the place on West Allendale Avenue last week with her mother, Jessica Son. Café Moncher is all about the ingredients. They are fresh. They are interesting. Choi is quick to say the menu is designed to stay relevant in all types of weather. For the warm weather, there are large arrays of cold bubble t…

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News
Emerson Becomes First In Bergen To Ban Puppy Mill Dogs Emerson Becomes First In Bergen To Ban Puppy Mill Dogs
Emerson Becomes First In Bergen To Ban Puppy Mill Dogs EMERSON, N.J. – Emerson became the first town in Bergen County to ban the sale of puppy mill dogs Tuesday night. The borough council unanimously passed an ordinance that restricts kennels and pet store operators from carrying any dogs bred at a facility in which the health of the dogs is disregarded. One council member was absent for the vote. With the decision, Emerson joins dozens of towns in Central and South Jersey who recently adopted similar ordinances. Yet there is still a feeling of unrest regarding the new law. “I think this is a first step,” said Councilwoman Danielle DiPaola. “…

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Neighbors
Paramus Doctor: For Good Health, Go Back To Basics Paramus Doctor: For Good Health, Go Back To Basics
Paramus Doctor: For Good Health, Go Back To Basics PARAMUS, N.J. – The patients in Dr. Thomas Andrew Cacciola’s Paramus home office like to swap stories about him in the waiting room. There’s the man who recalls the doctor driving to his workplace and insisting he go to the hospital immediately. Or the woman with the thyroid condition who travels three hours from upstate New York just to see Cacciola, who is one of some 3,000 holistic doctors in the country. For years running, he has been named a top holistic doctor in the nation by the Consumers’ Research Council of America. “There’s roughly another 900,000 doctors who are traditionally t…

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Neighbors
Ridgewood Swimmer Champ In, Out Of Water Ridgewood Swimmer Champ In, Out Of Water
Ridgewood Swimmer Champ In, Out Of Water RIDGEWOOD, N.J. – Charlotte Samuels of Ridgewood, a record-setting swimmer, was honored for her community leadership by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Committee of Ridgewood and Glen Rock. Samuels, a Ridgewood High School senior, holds the world record for being the youngest to complete the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming. But her broader concerns have to do with swimming skills as a social justice issue. Individually, Samuels has raised more than $7,000 for Citizens for Swimming, which provides free water safety instruction for youth in Paterson, and Swim Free, a sim…

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