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By Keith Kountz   The National Italian American Foundation promotes and preserves Italian culture in the United States, and the head of the organization happens to be a Connecticut native, Anita Bevacque McBride. News 8 spoke with McBride via satellite about her the organization, its mission and her connecticut roots.   "I was bo...

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Romeo G. Petroni died Monday, Aug. 3. He is the only native son to become a Superior Court judge during the 20th Century. "It's a demanding, challenging position that requires broad knowledge of the law, but at this point in my life, I'm ready for it," Judge Petroni said in May 1990 when he received the appointment. Judge Petroni had lived 60...

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by Cassandra Day   Thanks to modern technology, a group of children learning Italian language and culture "traveled" across the North Atlantic to last weekend to meet the mayor and students just like them who live in Middletown's sister city of Melilli, Sicily.   About 10 children ages 7-13 who study at the city's Italian American Com...

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At the annual Columbus Day celebration, Alfred Fusco is a fixture as familiar as the zeppole he's become popular for serving at the downtown celebration of Italian-American heritage and culture.   But he won't be working the booth this Sunday, a first since the city's celebration started a half decade ago: Fusco has earned a place at the fro...

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Si sono riuniti nella citta' di Stamford in Connecticut i Delegati ed i Rappresentanti del Comitato Tricolore per gli italiani nel Mondo delle circoscrizioni consolari di Boston, New York/Connecticut, New Jersey, Philadelfia, aree sostanzialmente del Nord Est degli USA.I lavori sono iniziati con un minuto di silenzio in Onore di Mirko Tremaglia fon...

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New Haven Connecticut, Yale University: un'oasi italiana in cui si celebra il 2013 Anno della Cultura negli Stati Uniti, in cui è immersa il console generale Natalia Quintavalle venerdì, in occasione della prima visita ufficiale al prestigioso ateneo. Il denso e articolato programma della giornata è iniziato con l'intervento del console generale a...

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The annual Italian Festival will take place on the grounds of the Amerigo Vespucci Lodge, 10 Christopher Columbus Ave., from 5 to 11 p.m. Friday. The festival will continue from 3 to 11 p.m. Saturday, and from 1 to 9 p.m. Sunday.   The Italian Festival, which has been held for more than 20 years, will feature authentic Italian food, mus...

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A seguito della riunione straordinaria del 2 marzo a Roma e di quella ordinaria del 12 Settembre in Connecticut, il coordinatore del Ctim Nord America, Vincenzo Arcobelli, ha nominato quattro nuovi responsabili per altrettante circoscrizioni statunitensi. Si tratta, sottolinea Arcobelli, del primo passo da compiere per "dare un seguito all'impegno...

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Votto Vines Importing, a rapidly expanding wine importing and marketing company, has announced the launch of a new incubator program to formalize and streamline its processes for importing wines into the United States.   The program will establish a standardized system for reviewing and evaluating wines not currently in the U.S. market, incl...

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Some 130 years ago Italians began to arrive in America in significant numbers. Perhaps because they came in surges and many were poor farmers or laborers with little education, desperate for work, many were stereotyped as less than intelligent, as buffoons or criminals.   Like immigrants from other places, they were marginalized. But th...

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