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Lorraine Ash

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lash@dailyvoice.com

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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

No Joy Yet On Teacher Contracts In Ridgewood RIDGEWOOD, N.J. — After 10 hours in a room together Tuesday night, the Ridgewood Board of Education and Ridgewood Education Association still have not agreed on a teacher contract, according to a statement the board emailed to residents. “Although progress was made, settlement was not reached,” said the email, sent Wednesday. Negotiations, which are now before a state-appointed super conciliator, have been at an impasse since July 2015. The two sides will meet again 6:30 p.m. Sept. 12. In its statement, the board noted it is committed to finalizing a contract that fairly compensates witho…

by Lorraine Ash

09/07/2016

Business

Glen Rock, Ridgewood Moms Start World Explorers Club RIDGEWOOD, N.J. — Julia Vogman, of Glen Rock, remembers how she conceived the idea for an interactive World Explorers Club to teach 5- to 8-year-olds about other countries. After Vogman returned from a trip to Italy with her husband and two older sons, her 4-year-old boy had nothing but questions. “What do they eat in Italy?” he wanted to know. “What’s that tower (of Pisa) about? What do they speak there?” As a music and theater teacher, Vogman got to thinking about answering such questions about the whole wide world for all children. “I wanted a program about countries,” Vogman said, “bu…

by Lorraine Ash

09/07/2016

Business

Ramsey Woodworker Gives Old Furniture New Life WYCKOFF, N.J. — It isn’t by accident that Cheryl Demartini of Ramsey, otherwise known as the “Junk Chick,” finds, restores, and transforms old wood furniture and vintage pieces. Woodworking is in her genes. In 1938, her great-grandfather founded Demartini Coal and Lumber, which was an institution on West Prospect Street in Waldwick through three generations of the family. “I grew up around the tools and the wood,” said Demartini, 36. “Not that my family built furniture. I just took it to a different level.” For her business — Junk Chick Designs on Goffle Road in Wyckoff — Demartini is al…

by Lorraine Ash

09/06/2016

News

Teaneck Renames Street To Honor Mayor Lizette Parker TEANECK, N.J. — A few hundred people gathered at the corner of Selvage Avenue and Stasia Street in Teaneck Wednesday night to honor the life of their late, beloved Mayor Lizette Phillips Parker. In a small ceremony, Township Manager William Broughton unveiled a new street sign renaming Selvage Avenue “Mayor Lizette P. Parker Way.” Parker lived on that street with her husband, Anthony, and young daughter, Alyssa. “We could have chosen to do nothing at all on a day like this and just had a quiet time, shed some tears,” Anthony Parker said. “I’ve done enough of that all morning leading up t…

by Lorraine Ash

09/01/2016

Business

Ramsey College President Honored For Social Legacy RAMSEY, N.J. — Thomas Eastwick, founder of Eastwick College in Ramsey, Hackensack and Nutley, usually is the man behind the curtain on campus. But next month the Pearl River resident will emerge to accept two awards. On Oct. 20, the Meadowlands Regional Chamber will honor the 64-year-old college president with a legacy award. The next night, Eastwick will be feted at the fall gala of Project Literacy of Greater Bergen County as its 2016 honoree. “How unusual is it to be honored two nights in a row?” asked Eastwick, who also founded the HoHoKus School of Trade and Technical Sciences in Pat…

by Lorraine Ash

08/31/2016

Business

Feet First: De-stress At Foot Spas In Waldwick, Paramus WALDWICK, N.J. — Ming Lu hopes the foot spas he opened in the past two months — Thai Foot Spa in Waldwick and Xing Yao Foot Spa in Paramus – help Bergen residents unwind. Reflexology is the practice of applying pressure to areas on the feet, the premise being that these areas correspond to systems and organs in the body, according to the Mayo Clinic. Stimulation of the areas is believed to affect the organs and promote a person’s well-being. Lu knows firsthand the benefits of reflexology, or foot massage. For starters, it’s an ancient tradition in his native Fujian Province in southeast Chi…

by Lorraine Ash

08/30/2016

Neighbors

Bergenfield Pastor Cherishes 50 Years At St. Anthony’s BERGENFIELD, N.J. — The Very Rev. Fr. Joseph J. Allen has spent all 50 of his years as an ordained priest at the same church – St. Anthony Antiochian Orthodox Church in Bergenfield. When he arrived, fresh out of seminary, he was advised to grow a beard because he looked too young to be a priest. All these years later, at 73, he still has the beard. As well as 11 books on Orthodox theology to his name, and teaching credits, too, as he was a professor at two Orthodox seminaries. For decades, Allen has led the Antiochan House of Studies, where laypeople come to learn as clergy do and clergy c…

by Lorraine Ash

08/29/2016

Neighbors

Lodi Mother Looks To ‘Mentoring Mom’ For Support LODI, N.J. — Buffie Galifi of Lodi has a great mom, but she needed and found another motherly influence in her life: Sharyn Bauer of Hackensack. The two were linked by Mentoring Moms, a program of the Hackensack-based Bergen Volunteer Center. It makes 45-55 such matches a year. “I’m an only child. My husband is an only child,” said Galifi, 45, a mother of three boys. “My mother doesn’t understand the shoes that I walk in with three children.” In her youth, Galifi said, she was a “true girly girl” who played with dolls and toy bake ovens. Now here she is with three boys, running from socc…

by Lorraine Ash

08/29/2016

News

Kinderkamack Road Project In Emerson Begins Monday EMERSON, N.J. — The Kinderkamack Road improvement project in Emerson, expected to last some 10 months, starts Monday. Test pits for the work were marked Friday to determine the precise locations of underground utilities, Mayor Lou Lamatina said in an open letter to the community. “On Monday, August 29th, the digging for test pits will occur,” he wrote. “That day also marks the start of the 300 day period for the contract to be completed.” The Kinderkamack Road Shared Service Improvement Project entails closing the New Jersey Transit railroad crossing for seven days, starting Sept. 23 after…

by Lorraine Ash

08/27/2016

Neighbors

Haworth Arts Maven Likes Her Life Filled With Music HAWORTH, N.J. — All her life, artistic opportunities have followed Claudia Gaard, founder and head of the Haworth Arts Committee. Growing up in Closter, she sang in the choir at Northern Valley Regional High School. “My mother and my stepfather belonged to German singing clubs,” Gaard said. “They got me involved in singing at their festivals at Schuetzen Park in North Bergen.” When her adult life began, her musical activities ceased, though she married Stephen Gaard, a composer of pop and R&B songs. “The crazy thing was that for 13 years, I was afraid to sing in front of him,” she sai…

by Lorraine Ash

08/27/2016

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