Palmyra woman opens Italian food stand to keep family tradition alive
Susan Requena grew up with a love of ravioli and Sunday family dinners at her grandmother's house. "That's what my Italian heritage revolves around. Sunday dinners. Sunday. Two o'clock at Nana's house," Requena said with a smile. "Your meatballs, your sauce, your Antipasto. Those are the things I decided to carry and wanted to pass on. Because that...
Vandals Strike Frank Rizzo Mural In Italian Market
Earlier this week, the Frank Rizzo Statue was twice the target of vandalism. Now, vandals have struck the mural depicting the former mayor in Philadelphia’s Italian Market. Around 2:30 a.m. Saturday, as a group of residents guarded the Frank Rizzo statue in Center City against potential vandals, spray painters – yet again – targeted his mural at 9t...
Italian Fest returns to Huntington for third year
Classic red and white tabletops checkered 4th Avenue on Saturday as Facing Hunger Foodbank's Italiano! Italian Festival returned for its third year. Italian restaurants from around the Tri-State served meatballs and a variety of famous pasta dishes while people in attendance dined with family and friends, sipped on wine, watched dance performances...
WVIHF and pasta cook off help NCWV hold onto Italian roots
For years, the West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival and the festival’s Pasta Cook-Off have been celebrating the Italian-American traditions and culture that thrive in North Central West Virginia. The Pasta Cook-Off, set for Aug. 26 this year, allows both amateur and professional cooks to compete, said Tyler Terango, president of the festival boa...
Iconic Statue Returned after Repairs
A historic landmark for decades is back in its rightful place after an eight month absence. The Christopher Columbus statue and its pedestal were returned, Tuesday, to downtown Pittston. 525 years after Christopher Columbus discovered America, the city of Pittston is rediscovering his recently repaired statue. "We've been saying all week joking it'...
'Black Power' Spray-Painted on Statue of Polarizing Philadelphia Mayor
The bronze statue of Frank Rizzo, Philadelphia's polarizing former police commissioner and mayor, was defaced late Thursday with the words "Black Power" written in white spray paint. The vandal also wrote "The Black community should be their own police" on the steps of the Municipal Services Building on John F. Kennedy Boulevard in Center City wher...
More Than 18,000 People Have Signed a Petition to Keep the Rizzo Statue
A petition to keep the city’s Frank Rizzo statue is gaining steam. As of 4 p.m. Thursday, more than 18,000 people had signed the petition, which was posted on change.org by South Philly resident Marc Ferguson. That’s about 15,000 more signatures than a petition calling for the statue’s removal has gathered. Ferguson told CBS3 he created the petiti...
Advance tickets on sale for Italian fest's afternoon wine tastings
Advance tickets are now on sale for three wine tastings that will take place Saturday, Aug. 19 during the third annual Italiano! Italian Festival on Fourth Avenue in downtown Huntington. In the parking lot between the Keith-Albee and Old Village Roaster and the new Fro Yo House, will be a new wine-tasting tent that will feature three separate Ital...
17th Annual Italian Festival
The 17th Annual Italian Feast of the Assumption at The Roman Catholic Church of Epiphany, 615 Thiele Road, runs from Thursday, August 17 through Sunday, August 20, from 5 to 10 p.m. There is free parking and free admission. Thursday night is bracelet night. Entertainment will be provided by Spotlight Entertainment, including carnival atmosphere wit...
After Charlottesville, spotlight falls on Rizzo memorials
As many Philadelphians watched in horror as protests over the planned removal of a statue memorializing Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Va., turned to deadly violence, a number of them had the same thought. They turned their attention to Center City’s Thomas Paine Plaza and its statue of Frank L. Rizzo, the former law-and-order m...
Bradford already waiting for next year’s Festa Italiana
The Festa Italiana has come and gone, but not without leaving plenty of good memories in the minds of Bradfordians. With more than 6,000 meatballs, 10 kettles of sauce and 700 pounds of Italian sausage, folks left each day of the Festa with full stomachs and smiling faces. For over 50 years, the event organizers have made sure that proceeds raised...
John F. Russo, former senate president, dies at 84
John F. Russo, a longtime former state senator and Senate president, died Saturday night. He was 84. Russo, a Democrat from Ocean County, died after a battle with esophageal cancer, his daughter, Caryl Lynn Russo told NJ Advance Media in a phone interview on Sunday. "It was a courageous fight," she said, adding that he was diagnosed in late spring...