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Lorraine Ash

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Lorraine Ash has been a reporter/editor in her native New Jersey since 1982, the year she earned her master’s degree in Public Communications from Fordham University. Her articles have gained global, national, state, and regional attention and awards and have appeared in a number of newspapers, including USA Today. She has worked for publications such as Family Circle Magazine, The Ridgewood News, and the Daily Record. Lorraine also has penned two memoirs and teaches memoir writing. Experience has taught her that everyone has a compelling story to tell. Have a story the community needs to hear? Email her. She’d love to hear from you.

Lorraine was formerly a reporter at Daily Voice.

Lorraine Ash's Contributions

News

Monday’s The Night The Lights Go On In Ridgewood Park RIDGEWOOD, N.J. — Those people swarming around Memorial Park at Van Neste Square in Ridgewood this weekend, looking up at trees, come from all over the world. They’re a team of arborists, architects, landscape designers, and electricians. And they’re all students here to help bring about a $250,000 transformation to the park. Those 16 old incandescent streetlamps may have been charming back in the day. Ditto for the 70-year-old wiring. The transformation, known as the Van Neste Lighting Project, will update everything. Bye-bye, lamps. Hello, 270 dimmable, low-wattage LED bulbs to ill…

by Lorraine Ash

10/15/2016

News

Cops Give Counselors Dope On Drugs At Teaneck Gathering TEANECK, N.J. — Think marijuana faded away? Think again, two narcotics detectives told a room of drug counselors, therapists, guidance counselors, and clergy at the “Tree of Addiction” conference in Teaneck Friday. “Everybody thinks marijuana is regular green old school marijuana,” said Det. 1st Grade Jason Hornstra of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Narcotics Task Force. “Today it comes in all shapes, forms, colors,” he added. “There’s Purple Kush, Strawberry Kush, Orange, White Widow.” It’s coming mostly from California, also known as the Emerald Triangle, he added, and mostly is d…

by Lorraine Ash

10/14/2016

Schools

Paramus Candidates Tired Of Nasty School Board Culture PARAMUS, N.J. — Seven of the eight candidates vying for three seats on the Paramus Board of Education attracted some 150 people to “Meet the Candidates” at Paramus High School Thursday night. Conversation swirled around key themes: school security, tech and wifi troubles, bullying, multiculturalism, and the homework policy. Almost all the candidates cited an urgent need for the board to adopt a spirit of openness and respect. Sophie Heymann of the Bergen County League of Women Voters moderated. Candidates answered three pre-determined questions and more submitted by audience members as th…

by Lorraine Ash

10/14/2016

News

Food Pantry For Pascack Towns Preps For Thanskgiving PARK RIDGE, N.J. — As Thanksgiving nears, the newly renamed Tri-Boro Food Pantry at the Pascack Reformed Church in Park Ridge, is stocking up on coffee, turkeys, pumpkin pie filling, and other fixings. The center, some 40 years old, serves Montvale, Woodcliff Lake, and Park Ridge, said Kathy Bowen, who works as public assistance director for all three towns. Some 60 people a month partake of the well-stocked shelves, she added. Each person is allowed to come every two weeks. For the holidays, the numbers go up. “We get 75 to 80 a month for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter,” Bowen said.…

by Lorraine Ash

10/14/2016

Lifestyle

Franklin Lakes Counselor: Non-Opioids Still Ruin Lives FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. — Margaret Schneider of Franklin Lakes, a licensed clinical social worker and alcohol and drug counselor, is inviting people with addiction problems into her private practice. Recently, she even offered a free phone consult to teens and adults who message her on Facebook. The offer represents the tip of the iceberg of an emerging trend: as state funding for mental health services declines, patients need to find help in the private sector. Though funding is going down, need isn’t following suit. Last year, there were 288 overdoses, including 87 deaths in Bergen County,…

by Lorraine Ash

10/13/2016

Neighbors

Bogota Lunchbox Man Displays His Best 100 HACKENSACK, N.J. — Joe Shuler of Bogota loves sharing his lunchbox collection. A hundred of them, all in mint condition, are on display through Saturday at the Johnson Public Library in Hackensack. The exhibit includes the first one Shuler bought: GI Joe. It reminded him of his brother, who was fighting in the Vietnam War at the time. The boxes, all made of metal, point to some American cultural phenomenon during their heyday: 1958 to 1985. “The boxes show the movies, TV shows, comedians, and fads,” explained Shuler, the 83-year-old owner of Alert Graphics. The display collection includ…

by Lorraine Ash

10/12/2016

News

Emerson Businesses: Kinderkamack Roadwork Is Killing Us EMERSON, N.J. — In Emerson businesses along the Kinderkamack Road corridor, lasagnas are sitting uneaten, no one’s buying fall sweaters, and precious few women are getting their nails done. The road is now under major renovations and causing traffic backups so severe that a one-mile ride can take 20 minutes. Work started last month and is expected to last 10 months. Entrepreneurs say they share the vision for an improved road. They just hope they’re still in business next summer to reap the benefit. “Look,” said Tina Pyo, owner of Alamode Nail and Spa at 111 Kinderkamack, gesturing aroun…

by Lorraine Ash

10/12/2016

News

Ridgewood School Board Approves 3-Year Teacher Pact RIDGEWOOD, N.J. — The Ridgewood Board of Education voted to approve a three-year contract with village teachers and support staff Monday night, according to a board statement released on Twitter. The contract, ratified by the Ridgewood Education Association Sept. 28, ends an impasse that started 15 months ago. The three-year pact covers July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2018. It calls for a 1 percent raise for the first year and 2.7 percent each of the remaining years, according to the board statement. “Importantly, the approved contract assures that our salaries will continue to be competiti…

by Lorraine Ash

10/11/2016

Business

DV Video: Hillsdale Service Delivers Fresh Milk To Doorsteps Daily HILLSDALE, N.J. — Every little thing Organic Milk Corp of Hillsdale does around the clock revolves around a single goal: bringing farm-fresh milk and other products to the doorsteps of Bergen and Passaic county customers. Sometimes within hours of being bottled. Rosemarie Romano bought the business — then a simple milk delivery service — 15 years ago. Back then, the trend toward fresh, organic, nutrient-dense foods was just beginning. “We’ve evolved from offering 6 items to 100,” Adams said. “That includes milk, cream, hand-churned butter, cheese, handmade yogurts, eggs, grass-fed meats, …

by Lorraine Ash

10/11/2016

Events

Photos: Dare To Enter New Milford's Halloween Hell NEW MILFORD, N.J. — Halloween is intense in New Milford, home of the Nightmare on River Road Haunted Attraction, open through Oct. 30. Inside the former bowling alley at the Brookchester Shopping Center is 8,000 square feet of sheer terror, delivered compliments of local Boy Scout Troops 291 and 78. The interior features 21 scenes in 17 rooms as well as connecting hallways that are anything but calm. “All the walls are created just for the event,” said Matt Kaprielian of New Milford, creative director. “You’re walking through 100 percent designed and constructed scenes,” he added. They i…

by Lorraine Ash

10/08/2016

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