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The Silvio Laccetti Foundation of Fairview, NJ has presented its prestigious Garibaldi Award to five New Jersey students for 2021. The accolade is given to students who have demonstrated high achievement in high school Italian Studies while also serving as models for school or community service. Over two dozen of these awards have been given since...

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For many Americans, the gradual reopening of the country means more time out of doors, the slow return to gyms, and the chance to take a good look at how we’ve been treating our bodies during the many months we’ve spent, for the most part, indoors. But why weren’t we examining our indoor environments this way before the pandemic?  This week’s guest...

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Raritan's Annual John Basilone Memorial Parade is back this year following last year's cancelation due to the coronavirus pandemic. The parade will be held on Sunday, Sept. 19 at 1 p.m. in downtown Raritan, said Co-chairman of the Basilone Parade Bruce Doorly. Registration to march in the parade is now by computer only. No more postcards will be se...

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There’s a new Italian bakery coming to Jersey City, with an unusual pairing at the helm. Delizioso Bakery + Kitchen was started by two couples at a crossroads. These friends, one who was retiring from the NYPD, and the other who had baking in his blood, were on a quest to bring New Jersey a full-service kitchen combining old, Italian favorites with...

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My parents came to the United States from Italy in search of opportunities and for the promise of what America had to offer.  For them and for so many others, that search and that promise was exemplified by Christopher Columbus and memorialized by the Columbus Day Holiday.  The spirit my parents sought and their heritage still lives on in millions...

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Randolph school officials are facing backlash from parents after their decision to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous People's Day. Last week, the Randolph Board of Education passed a resolution to make the change, a move parents said is "unacceptable" and was done without community input.  "The way in which the BOE passed the resolution was unac...

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Even the most basic of Italian cars still have their own charms in some way or another – and sports cars and supercars even more so. That was exactly the idea of Cars & Caffe’s Festival Italiano IV this past weekend, where they managed to gather some of the most interesting, iconic, and valuable cars ever to come out of the country. The show comes...

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Columbus Day may sail into the sunset of the Jersey City public schools district. Board Of Education President Mussab Ali told The Jersey Journal Thursday that the board may consider changing the now controversial holiday to Indigenous Peoples’ Day in the schools and on the school calendar.  Columbus Day, a national holiday and a symbol for Italian...

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For public school students in Randolph, the October holiday formerly known as Columbus Day now appears as Indigenous Peoples’ Day on the school calendar. The Randolph school board has voted 8-0 to rename the holiday, mirroring a shift formalized in recent years by at least seven states and two New Jersey municipalities amid an ongoing, national rea...

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DeFelice Brothers Pizza opens its ninth restaurant Monday on Granville Road in west Newark, its first location outside of the Steubenville, Ohio, and Wheeling, West Virginia areas. Franchise owner Scott Hannig, a Huntington Bank employee who has lived in Newark five years, said he has been planning this for quite some time. He grew up in the Wheeli...

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