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Officers and members of Corona D'Italia Lodge 807 held their monthly meeting April 13 at Pizza Joe's in Ellwood City. Valerie Valentino, scholarship chairwoman, and her committee of Lois DiFrischia, sentinel, and Pudue LaCava, trustee, presented the report. A $500 Corona D'ltalia memorial scholarship will be awarded to Lincoln High School sen...

Teresa Sengel, World Language Department Chair at Mount Saint Mary Academy (MSMA) in Watchung, announced on May 31 that during October and May, the school's Italian Club sponsored a Rita's Italian Ice sale which yielded over $800 for the Mercy Girl Effect.   According to Sister Lee Ann Amico, MSMA Student Government Director and Student Cent...

Eggplants, artichokes, corn, tomatoes, peaches, apples, melons. Boxes of them lined the wall of my parents' garage in northern New Jersey. On warm summer afternoons in the 1960s, their rich, sweet aroma wafted out to the driveway, where I'd be playing stickball or drawing hopscotch courts with chalk on the hot blacktop.   My dad was a fruit...

The Union County Summer Arts Festival concert series continues this coming Wednesday evening July 27, with Pat DiNizio of the Smithereens taking the stage at 7:30p.m.   The free concert series, presented by the Union County Board of Chosen Freeholder, and sponsored at Echo Lake Park by ConnectOne Bank will take place at Echo Lake Park in Mou...

  Paolo Bulletti has a dream. The Italian architect wants to transport a house built by the distinguished U.S. architect Frank Lloyd Wright from its current site in New Jersey to the hills of Fiesole, near Florence. His "mission impossible," as his wife, Valeria, has dubbed it, was hatched three years ago when he organized an exhibition in F...

di Riccardo Chioni   Il New Jersey non è da meno quando si tratta di celebrare la Repubblica italiana e il giorno successivo i festeggiamenti di New York, centinaia di persone si sono dato appuntamento lunedì al ristorante Ravello a East Hanover per la festa del 2 Giugno.Maria Carlino ha condotto la cerimonia alla quale hanno preso parte aut...

An Italian-American group has expressed its disapproval of how a Beaver County advertising agency is portraying the stars of its "You Got A Problem With That ... Motors!" commercial spots.The ads star four puppets -- Johnny Car Lot, Backseat Benny, Frankie the Fixer and Tony Two Trunks -- as mafia-like car salesmen.   Andre DiMino, president...

Brick Township, NJ - The Ocean County Columbus Day Parade Committee is proud to announce that Paul Barlo has been chosen to serve as the Grand Marshal for this year's Columbus Day Parade to be held on Sunday, October 13, 2013. This year marks the Twenty-second edition of this popular event.   "Every year we are faced with the difficult task...

Bethlehem is getting an Italian festival. A small, initial festival will be held July 10, followed by a bigger Italian festival next spring.   Bethlehem Councilman Bryan Callahan had proposed an Italian festival as a way to bring more people downtown after the snowy winter, which was tough for merchants. Callahan had wanted to do a big fest...

On July 2, at the monthly IAMA (Italian American Memorial Association) meeting, a scholarship ceremony took place honoring this year's recipients and presenting them with scholarships. Five scholarships were presented this year to the following students.   A Sports Scholarship was presented by Marion Smeriglio to Nicholas Menkin, who will be...

Congratulations to Italian American Police Society of New Jersey members Joseph Puso and Matthew LaManna on their promotion to Sergeant in the Parsippany Troy Hills Police Department.   We would also like to congratulate Ronald Carrozzino and the other newly promoted sergeants as well as Italian American Police Society of New Jersey Member C...

The Gables bed and breakfast in Beach Haven welcomes a vocal performance by "classical crossover" tenor Michéal Castaldo on Saturday, Feb. 14, to set the mood for a romantic Valentine's Day dinner in a restored Victorian setting.   Castaldo is an award-winning singer, composer, producer and recording artist. He was born in Calabria, Italy; r...