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ATTENTION All Italian Americans: We Need You to Be There! PLEASE – this is our best opportunity to stop this insanity…we can’t have Glen Rock; NJ eliminate Columbus Day!!! Make plans to attend on May 8, 2019 – get there at 6:00 pm! Here is the response to our request for a meeting with the Glen Rock Mayor and Council: Mayor Packer forwarded your me...

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“The food in Italy is nothing like the 'Italian' food that we eat here in New Jersey," a recent visitor to the “Bel Paese” may tell you (while also scoffing at your pizza dripping with cheese, chicken Parmesan coated in sauce or meal chock-full of meat).  “Real” Italian food may look different to what we can find here on our own checkered tableclot...

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Mike Marino – affectionately known to millions of fans worldwide as New Jersey’s Comedy Bad Boy – has performed in every major comedy club, theatre, casino and event center from New York to LA and around the world. He will star in a double bill with Assemblyman Jon Bramnick, "New Jersey's Funniest Lawyer," at the Count Basie Theater in Red Bank on...

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Joe Piscopo weighed-in on Glen Rock's consideration to change Columbus Day on its 2020 Borough Calendar to Indigenous Peoples' Day. Piscopo, former Saturday Night Live comedian and an Italian-American who regularly talks about his heritage on his radio show, Piscopo In the Morning on 970AM The Answer, asked why Glen Rock "would do something like th...

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As a trustee for Essex County College, a former councilman, coach, and community leader and volunteer, Joseph Maceri has a record of getting the job done for his community.   Joe is currently a member of the Finance Committee of Essex County College, a committee responsible of managing an annual budget of approximately $56,000,000.   He also serves...

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Glen Rock is considering renaming Columbus Day, or adding a second title, Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Mayor Bruce Packer said he had received emails requesting the change, similar to action taken by cities and states across the country in recent years. Posing the question to council members at the April 24 meeting, he noted that Glen Rock would be the...

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William J. Connell, Professor of History and Joseph M. and Geraldine C. La Motta Chair in Italian Studies, has been selected a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. As a recipient of the so-called "Brainy Award," the fellowship includes a $200,000 grant to devote significant time to research, writing, and publishing in the humanities and social sciences. Co...

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During the fall semester of 2018, multiple students from the University of Bergamo lived and studied at Fairleigh Dickinson University, experiencing the novelties and challenges associated with any long-term stay abroad. These students, all hailing from various locations in Italy, had the chance to take classes taught in English, enjoy American nig...

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Chef Anthony Bucco, who four months ago opened the much-ballyhooed contemporary Italian restaurant Felina in Ridgewood, does not lack confidence. The convivial, fast-talking chef ("I have a lot of energy," he explains) has reason to be self-assured. He worked for James Beard Award-winning chef Jonathan Waxman. He received four-star reviews for his...

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Renato Biribin, a former National President of UNICO, the Italian-American service organization, who helped charter the Scotch Plains chapter of UNICO in 1973, has died at age 79. Biribin was a fixture for many years selling raffle tickets (among other duties) at the St. Bart's Italian Festival in Scotch Plains each Labor Day Weekend and at Clark's...

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