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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

Mayors Pack Meals On Wheels In Ridgewood In Show Of Support RIDGEWOOD, N.J. — In a show of support for Community Meals, Inc., four mayors on Wednesday morning packed up meals in Ridgewood to be delivered to homebound seniors. The annual event in the Christ Church kitchen is called “Mayors for Meals.” It highlights the community collaborations necessary to deliver nutritious, affordable meals to the homebound. Ridgewood Mayor Susan Knudsen, Midland Park Mayor Harry Shortway, Glen Rock Mayor Bruce Packer and Waldwick Mayor Thomas Giordano snapped on plastic gloves and got to work. “This is just like Shortway’s Barn,” quipped Shortway, referencing hi…

by Lorraine Ash

03/22/2017

Business

Waldwick Pizzeria Bakes Pies With Hometown Love WALDWICK, N.J. — After 37 years in business, you can bet Natale’s Pizzeria in Waldwick has definite ingredients for success. One is high-quality Wisconsin mozzarella. Another: yummy California tomatoes. “Our marinara sauce is homemade,” said Owner Gary Sernak of Westwood. For the past eight years, Natale’s (named after Sernak’s former partner) is known in the gluten-free world for its delicious pies. The gluten-free crusts are a blend of rice flour, tapioca starch, potato starch, sea salt, red palm oil and more. “I got into gluten free through a customer of mine whose daughter had Celia…

by Lorraine Ash

03/22/2017

News

Emerson Drops More Properties From Redevelopment Plan EMERSON, N.J. — Emerson continued reconfiguring its redevelopment area along the Kinderkamack Road corridor Tuesday night. The area comprises 14 blocks extending from the Westwood border south to the Oradell border. Some of the blocks already have been placed in the so-called redevelopment area. Others are designated for study to see if they should be. The Borough Council on Tuesday passed a resolution removing some properties from the study area. The move sent ripples of cautious relief among some small business owners worried that redevelopment could threaten their properties. “Am…

by Lorraine Ash

03/22/2017

Neighbors

Park Ridge Architect: Wearing Pussy Hats Is Not The Answer PARK RIDGE, N.J. — You’re not going to see Park Ridge architect Linda Del Nobile Menze marching in the streets wearing a pussy hat. And, no, she didn’t stay home from work during the Day Without a Woman. Indeed she finds these recent women’s rights activities both distressing and unnecessary. “Women are going on a bandwagon,” Del Nobile Menze said. “We are all being manipulated into doing these marches and shirking our responsibilities.” Make no mistake about it: Del Nobile Menze is plenty independent and liberated. An NJIT-educated architect practicing for more than 30 years, she rose u…

by Lorraine Ash

03/21/2017

Lifestyle

Goat Sisters Greet Spring In Allendale ALLENDALE, N.J. — Boer/Pygmy Cross goats Wilma and Mildred ventured out of their little red house at Rohsler’s Allendale Nursery Monday to stand in melting snow and eat hay. Quite the way to greet spring for the sisters. “They get animal hay,” said Brian McGlynn, who handles many tasks around the 104-year-old nursery, including the care and feeding of animals. “When there’s not much grass because of snow, hay is good.” In wintertime, the sisters also eat sweet goat feed, which is like a granola. “When the temperature dips, the main thing is make sure they get water,” McGlynn said. So e…

by Lorraine Ash

03/20/2017

Neighbors

‘LesleyPalooza’ Helps Single Ridgewood Mom With MS RIDGEWOOD, N.J. — Ridgewood is pushing this month to help Lesley Linker, a single mom with multiple sclerosis (MS), keep her modest house and around-the-clock aides. The goal for the effort, dubbed LesleyPalooza, is $150,000. So far, $24,000 has been raised. “The people in this town are unbelievable,” Linker said. “I could cry because everyone is so sweet.” The community has been rallying around Linker, a 47-year-old former speech teacher, and her two children since 2015. That’s when things really got bad, according to a GoFundMe page started by a core group of five residents — Anne Burt…

by Lorraine Ash

03/20/2017

Events

Monk Coming To Ridgewood: Only Your Mind Can Make You Happy RIDGEWOOD, N.J. — Feeling overwhelmed, stressed, anxious? A revered Buddhist monk – Bhante Sujatha – is coming to Ridgewood Thursday evening to provide some spiritual advice. The Namaste Organic Spa on Franklin Avenue will host his two-hour workshop, “How to Empower Your Mind.” “The ancient texts of the Buddha tell us that no external condition can be the cause of our happiness,” said Bhante, a Buddhist monk. “Only the mind has that ability.” This is the second time he will present at the spa. Bhante — a title given to monks in the Theravada tradition — is the abbot of the Blue Lotus Bu…

by Lorraine Ash

03/18/2017

News

New Village Manager: I Live In Ridgewood, Sleep In Hillsdale RIDGEWOOD, N.J. — Ask Ridgewood’s new village manager Heather Mailander where she lives and the Hillsdale resident doesn’t miss a beat. “I always say I live in Ridgewood and sleep in Hillsdale,” she quipped. “I shop in the village. I eat in the village. I do things within the village. "Ridgewood is in my heart, always.” It has been since she was a girl growing up in bordering Ho-Ho-Kus. Mailander, 55, was appointed to the new position earlier this month. She also will retain her 28-year position as village clerk. Her new salary is $192,188, she said. That includes $58,000 for taki…

by Lorraine Ash

03/17/2017

News

NJ Puppy Mill Ban Heads To Governor Christie's Desk The New Jersey Assembly on Thursday passed a bill that would ban puppy mills from operating in the state, sponsor and Senator Raymond Lesniak announced. Bill S3041 would prohibit the sale of puppies from puppy mills and establish new requirements for pet dealers and shops in New Jersey. The issue was brought to light last year with Emerson puppy store owner Vincent LoSacco, who has since closed all of his Just Pups stores. "The bill was first enacted to attack the problem of pet shops in the state selling sick puppies supplied by large-scale, commercial breeding facilities," the …

by Lorraine Ash

03/16/2017

Neighbors

Head Of Ridgewood Nonprofit Champions Bergen’s Homeless Families RIDGEWOOD, N.J. — When she shows up at work in Ridgewood every day, Kate Duggan runs a massive effort to lift homeless working families into a different life. The executive director of Family Promise of Bergen County on Dayton Street points to statistics to tell the story: More than 5,000 volunteers. More than 1 million free meals served at the Bergen County Housing, Health and Human Services in Hackensack. Eighteen to 22 families helped at any given time. Seventy-four congregations in Bergen providing temporary shelter Three – and soon four – transitional apartments. Family Promise disti…

by Lorraine Ash

03/16/2017

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