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On Wednesday May 6, 2015 the Italian American Police Society of New Jersey helds its General Dinner Meeting at Villa Maria in Bayonne. The society inducted 6 new members and recognized its visitors from the Aruba Police.   The attendees were treated to an mazing dinner from their hosts Luciano and Antonio Ventrone. Bayonne Mayor Jimmy Smith...

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by Eric Kiefer   Get ready to show your Italian pride, Hoboken. The 105th St. Ann's Italian Festival kicks off on Tuesday, July 22 and runs to Sunday, July 26, at St. Ann's Square, 7th and Jefferson streets.   The festival will be open from 6 to 11 p.m. on July 22 to 24. It will open from 1 to 11 p.m. on July 25 and 26. On S...

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Unico Foundation Inc., a national service organization whose members are of Italian descent, offers four scholarships for high school seniors, as well as several others for undergraduate and graduate students of Italian descent. The Nutley chapter will sponsor eligible students who live in New Jersey.   The scholarships for high school stude...

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On May 6, natives of Scotch Plains will celebrate the 24th Annual Mayor's Gala at Pantagis Renaissance, where community members will be honored for exceptional dedication to the community.   Ralph Checchio, one of the event's four honorees, will hear his name called after attending the event for the past decade. In 2011, he was awarded the K...

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Dozens of people gathered Saturday afternoon into the evening to kick off day two of St. Ann's Italian Festival, which has been apart of the Mile Square City now for 106 years.   While city police blocked off the area near 7th and Jefferson streets at St. Ann's Square, the smell of bratwursts filled the air and children rode carnivals and pl...

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If you're going to call your new Italian restaurant "That's Amore" — meaning "that's love" in English — you'd better be pretty confident that your food, as well as the entire dining experience, can live up to the expectation of such a lofty name. That's Amore? It'd better be. Add that expectation to the fact that That's Amore is located in what wa...

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Members of the Italian American One Voice Coalition (www.iaovc.org) were pleased this past weekend to join the Mercer County Italian American Festival Association, New Jersey State Senator President Stephen Sweeney, and other dignitaries, in rededicating the Christopher Columbus statue at the Italian American Heritage Center in Hamilton Township....

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While Lauren Turano of Cedar Grove may or may not continue playing tennis and golf when she arrives at Villanova University next month, one thing is for sure, she will long be remembered as one of the best athletes in the recent history of Mount Saint Dominic Academy.   In just her junior and senior seasons, Turano helped the golf team win f...

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L' Hoboken Italian Festival, è un grande evento italo-americano come Festival nel New Jersey festeggia oggi 86 anni, sono le tradizioni tramandate di una festa patronale nata in Italia, a Molfetta, che è ha oltre 600 anni. The festival occurs yearly, the weekend after Labor Day, for 4 days at beautiful Sinatra Park, on the historic waterfront of H...

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The Clark Chapter of UNICO marched in the Annual Clark Memorial Day Parade on Monday. Members marched down Westfield Ave to ALJ High School for the Ceremony.   Clark Unico is a chapter of Unico National, the largest Italian American service organization in the United States. The Clark Unico is active in the community, provides scholarships t...

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