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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.

Lorraine Ash's Contributions

Events

Bergenfield Man Discovers And Promotes Indie Musicians BERGENFIELD, N.J. – Greg Haralambidis of Bergenfield is a best friend to local musicians. The millennial runs LOA Entertainment, a booking agency for artists whose work has “an indie folkie vibe.” The name stands for Love Of Arts. Since 2013, Haralambidis has booked 20 artists at events he stages at Avenue in Teaneck, The Carriage House in Englewood, and in the living rooms of his Bergenfield home. “We’re an entertainment company that takes care of the artist,” Haralambidis said. “A lot of labels and companies market themselves that way but it turns into manipulating the artist.” While he…

by Lorraine Ash

05/17/2016

Lifestyle

Mahwah Group Moves Beehives After Bear Attack MAHWAH, N.J. – A bear at Campgaw Mountain Reservation in Mahwah scaled the eight-foot deer fence around Fresh Roots Farm and ate three of 20 beehives. “We thought we’d have a month to get an electric fence put up around the hives, but the bear found them in four days,” said Eric Fuchs-Stengel, executive director of the Mahwah Environmental Volunteers Organization (MEVO). “You can’t blame the bear,” he added. “It’s looking for that good honey as well as the protein from the eggs that are in the hive.” So MEVO moved the bees, temporarily, to its farm at Bergen Community College in Paramus. T…

by Lorraine Ash

05/16/2016

Business

Westwood Couple Opens 'Bugging Out' Pest Company WESTWOOD, N.J. – After 15 years of working for a pest management company, Luigi Migliore and his wife, ToniAnn, opened their own. It got to the point that customers at Migliore’s old job were requesting him specifically. So earlier this year he made the break. Together, the couple created Bugging Out Termite and Pest Control.. “I felt I had all the tools to go out and do this myself and have a successful business,” he said. “I also wanted to leave something to my [two] sons.” Migliore, who holds five pest control licenses -- including one for termites and another for mosquitoes -- also doe…

by Lorraine Ash

05/13/2016

Events

10-Site History Tour Comes To Allendale, Waldwick UPPER SADDLE RIVER, N.J. – For $15, people can tour 10 historic sites in 10 Northwest Bergen County towns from Mahwah south to Glen Rock. “Spreading the News: Rail, Mail and the Press in Days Gone By” runs 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 14. Tickets come with a map showing the address of each site. An exhibit and guides are waiting for visitors at each location, said Kay Yeomans, president of the Northwest Bergen History Coalition. Each site will feature something pertaining to the theme of communications. The tour is the coalition’s 6th Annual History Day. “The day is a way to let people know we’r…

by Lorraine Ash

05/13/2016

Lifestyle

Spirit Of Ballet Thrives At Petrov School In Waldwick WALDWICK, N.J. – The Petrov Ballet School in the Superdome Sports Complex is an enchanting sight. Through its glass walls, the public can see dancers twirling, spinning, stretching. “I love this space,” said Eugene Petrov, artistic director of the school and a native of St. Petersburg, Russia. “When we’re up here dancing in the wintertime, and the snow is falling and the light’s just right, it’s like something out of Dostoyevsky.” Petrov performed with the prestigious International Folk Dance Ensemble throughout Russia and its former republics, Europe, and India. He’s also appeared in pr…

by Lorraine Ash

05/13/2016

Lifestyle

Everyone's Glad To See Garfield Teacher Driving Ice Cream Truck GARFIELD, N.J. – For three years, special education teacher Mohammad “Jordan” Alawawdeh has supplemented his income driving a pink Lickety Split ice cream truck along the streets of Glen Rock and Ridgewood. “I drive with the music playing and I make a lot of people happy,” said Alawawdeh, a Jordanian immigrant who lives in Garfield. “They want me to come back every day and they give me business cards for birthday and graduation parties.” But there are people who are irritated by the cheerful music his truck plays. Though it can play eight songs, he sticks to one. “If anyone should be annoy…

by Lorraine Ash

05/12/2016

Neighbors

Father, Son Mechanics Maintain Proud Waldwick Tradition WALDWICK, N.J. – Father and son auto mechanics Chuck Wanamaker Jr. and Chuck Wanamaker III have been fixing cars together in Waldwick for nearly 30 years. They work at the two locations they own — Waldwick Auto Service Center on West Prospect Street and Franklin Auto Care on Franklin Turnpike. The family connection to the business actually goes back another generation: The late Chuck Wanamaker Sr., born around 1915, had a Colonial station on Franklin Turnpike that no longer exists. “When he was there, I could only wipe windows. I was too young to pump gas,” said Wanamaker Jr., who now live…

by Lorraine Ash

05/11/2016

Lifestyle

‘Main Street Buddha’ To Teach Qigong In Wyckoff WYCKOFF, N.J. – Melissa Canter will lead a class in qigong, an ancient Chinese moving meditation, at the labyrinth at Wyckoff Public Library. The former Wall Streeter who worked in investment banking for 20 years said the practice helped changed her life. “I worked harder and harder,” Canter said. “I was making millions of dollars. I was like a baseball player. But I knew I was making a dying, not a living.” Sixteen years ago, she quit that life after her mother was killed in an accident and her father passed away. Today Canter calls herself “a Wall Street guru turned Main Street buddha”…

by Lorraine Ash

05/11/2016

News

Hache, Voigt, Coghlan-Walsh Win Ridgewood Council Seats RIDGEWOOD, N.J. – Ramon Hache was the top vote-getter Tuesday in Ridgewood’s race for three seats on the Village Council. Hache received 3,867 votes, followed by Jeff Voigt, with 3,839, and Bernadette Coghlan-Walsh, with 3,611. Finishing out of the running were members of the "Ridgewood 2020" ticket: Janice Willett, 1,803; Evan Weitz, 1,736; and Richard Brooks, 1,656. The heated contest for the three four-year seats brought out 34 percent of village voters. “I’m just glad the campaign is over and we can get back to normal life,” Hache said. “I’m very happy to have won. I look fo…

by Lorraine Ash

05/10/2016

Politics

Turnout Brisk In Ridgewood Village Election RIDGEWOOD, N.J. -- Voters began turning out early Tuesday and kept streaming to the polls in Ridgewood's Village Council election. "It's busier than I thought it was going to be," poll worker Susan Katz told Daily Voice at Benjamin Franklin Middle School. Lines began forming when the polls opened at 6 a.m. Village Clerk Heather Mailander said it should be even busier after school -- and especially from 5 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Six candidates are vying for three four-year seats in a non-partisan election marked by hot-button issues, including the size of a public parking garage planne…

by Lorraine Ash

05/10/2016

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