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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

Neighbors

‘Car Fix’ Features 1950 Ford Coupe From Waldwick Shop WALDWICK, N.J. — Crack auto mechanic Chuck Wanamaker III of Mahwah won’t be on “Car Fix,” the popular Velocity TV show, Saturday. But his blue 1950 Ford Coupe sure will. “The producer knows we have a lot of cars,” Wanamaker said. “They wanted to borrow one with a flathead engine to make an episode.” The Coupe comes with one carburetor, he explained. In the episode, the show’s hosts – Lou Santiago and Jared Zimmerman – demonstrate how to put in three carburetors. “It’s called a tri-power and they install them, along with performance cylinder heads,” Wanamaker explained. The episode, “Flat…

by Lorraine Ash

10/07/2016

News

Paramus Panel: Painting Blue Lines Doesn't Solve Problems PARAMUS, N.J. — Those blue lines being painted on roadways across Bergen County to honor police officers disturb the Rev. Gregory Jackson of Mount Olive Church in Hackensack. “The blue line, to me, suggests that black lives don’t matter as much,” he said Wednesday as a panelist at “Race and Diversity in Suburbia: Police and Community Working Together.” “If you’re going to have a line,” he added, “why don’t you just have a red line that represents the blood of anybody and everybody?” It was just the kind of so-called “courageous conversation” the gathering was called to have. They are the …

by Lorraine Ash

10/05/2016

Neighbors

Ridgewood Teen Brings Lacrosse To At-Risk Kids Abroad RIDGEWOOD, N.J. — Samantha Pickholz of Ridgewood, a 13-year-old lacrosse player, is at the threshold of a great adventure in her sport. The Benjamin Franklin Middle School student is raising $4,000 in a GoFundMe campaign. Why? So she can take up the Israel Lacrosse Association on a special invitation. Pickholz, a goalie in the Building Blocks Lacrosse Club, is the only lacrosse player from Bergen County to be invited to play on the association’s U-17 Winter Service Trip Team in Serbia and Israel. Over winter break, the U-17 team will meet up with the Israeli Women’s World Cup Team, the Is…

by Lorraine Ash

10/04/2016

Neighbors

Saddle River Paraplegic Inspires TED Audiences With Survival Story SADDLE RIVER, N.J. — Ron Gold of Saddle River, the paraplegic founder of the home care company, Lean On We, recently delivered a TEDx talk at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark. His one-of-a-kind company plugged neatly into the theme of the TEDxNJIT event. “We wanted to focus this year on ideas that engage the community in collaboration and innovation,” said Judith Sheft, associate vice president for technology and enterprise development at NJIT. With his company, Gold changed the model of home health care by helping people pair up privately with well-vetted, well-suited, …

by Lorraine Ash

10/03/2016

Business

Ridgewood Superfood Mecca Helps Owners Heal Following Family Tragedy RIDGEWOOD, N.J. — Siblings and Ridgewood business owners Jeff Wozniak and Amy Ratleff felt helpless as they watched both their parents die from cancer. “We had endured the whole process – the chemotherapy, back and forth to the doctors, surgeries,” Wozniak of North Haledon said. “And we did it times-two because both of our parents were sick at the same time.” Back in 2008 and 2009, though, the siblings, who now own Super Juice Nation, didn’t know about healing through food. At the time, they were working in their father’s pharmaceutical packaging business. It wasn’t till later that they…

by Lorraine Ash

10/03/2016

Events

Maya Angelou Documentary To Air At Teaneck Center TEANECK, N.J. — “Maya Angelou and Still I Rise,” the first documentary about the famed author, will air 6 p.m. Nov. 6 at the Puffin Cultural Forum in Teaneck. Angelou, known for classics such as “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes,” died in 2014. Though Angelou is known worldwide as a symbol of peace, humility, and freedom there are still parts of her story that are not well known. Some are explored in this 114-minute documentary, to be released in mid-October. It is directed by Bob Hercules and Rita Coburn Whack. The film explores how the histor…

by Lorraine Ash

10/03/2016

News

NJ Transit Releases Plan For Monday Morning Commuters NJ Transit announced that several lines will remain on a weekend schedule starting Monday, Oct. 3, following Thursday's Hoboken crash. All NJ Transit rail service in and out of Hoboken Terminal remains suspended until further notice, NJ Transit announced. The Main, Bergen, Pascack Valley, and Port Jervis train lines will operate on a weekend schedule, originating and terminating in Secaucus, also until further notice. Hoboken's Light Rail service has been restored and will continue to operate on a full weekday schedule. Cross-honoring with PATH, ferries, NJ Transit bus and private carrier…

by Lorraine Ash

10/02/2016

News

Bergen Commuters Adjust To New Schedules After Crash Passengers fumbled with their NJ Transit schedules and phones Friday afternoon at the Allendale and Waldwick stations, still making sense of their new routes following Thursday’s deadly crash at the Hoboken commuter station. Bob Pilser of Ho-Ho-Kus normally goes into NYC at 6:30 a.m. daily. Friday, though, he took the train to visit a friend, and it was chaos. “Unorganized. Disruptive. Mixed up. Nobody knows anything,” Pilser said. “The conductors don’t know. It’s crazy.” Pilser and NJ Transit officials both wonder what will happen next week. The schedule hasn't been sorted out yet, NJ Tra…

by Lorraine Ash

09/30/2016

Business

Watch: Hackensack Mom Launches 100% Natural Skin Care Line HACKENSACK, N.J. — Cara McEvoy of Hackensack had had enough already of synthetic skin care products. The married mother of two boys has struggled with sensitive skin her whole life – acne as a teen and dermatitis, on and off, as an adult. For 20 years, she used Cetaphil, an acne medication. But when she actually researched the ingredients in the lotions and creams she and her family used every day, she was appalled. Her discontent led to Skinnocence, her company of pure skin care products, which launched this August. McEvoy, 39, has an MBA and worked in human resources. But she now spen…

by Lorraine Ash

09/30/2016

Schools

Ridgewood Offers Forums On Full-Day Kindergarten Plan RIDGEWOOD, N.J. — When Ridgewood residents go to the polls to help choose a president Nov. 8, they’ll also vote on whether the village should have a full-day kindergarten. The public’s questions about full-day kindergarten will be answered at two pubic forums, according to Schools Superintendent Daniel Fishbein. The first will take place at 7 p.m. Oct. 5 at the Benjamin Franklin Middle School auditorium. The second is set for 7 p.m. Oct. 27 at the George Washington Middle School auditorium. The village now has the only half-day program left in Bergen County, according to the Board of Educ…

by Lorraine Ash

09/29/2016

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