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Local Realtors Anthony D'Agostino, Matt Dobrowolski and Fernando Rivera with ERA Village Green Realtors were recently recognized by the New Jersey Association of Realtors and awarded the Circle of Excellence designation for 2016.  Anthony, Matt  and Fernando have been actively engaged in the sale and leasing of residential properties thru-out Union...

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Retirement is not something barber Joe Barca Sr. is considering. He's been cutting hair for 90 years, since he learned the trade at the age of 10, and has no plans to put down his scissors and comb. "It all depends on what you want to do in life," Barca said Friday as hundreds turned out for a party marking his 100th birthday. "I love to deal with...

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Pizza, pasta and subs are served at The Italian that recently opened at 924 N. Main St. in Princeton.“We always liked Princeton,” said owner Nicolina Alfano. “It is close to the train station. It is a busy area. Good people. There is a lot going on, on Main Street.” Alfano moved the restaurant to Princeton from Walnut where it had been open for thr...

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There’s an expression that weaves its way through Helene Stapinski’s union of crime story and family memoir: Leave the dead in peace. She doesn’t.“Murder in Matera: A True Story of Passion, Family, and Forgiveness in Southern Italy” starts as an inquiry that takes Stapinski from Jersey City, New Jersey, to the city of Bernalda, on the instep of the...

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Clark UNICO recently served dinner to 30 veterans at the Lyons Veterans Hospital in Basking Ridge as part of the Italian-American service organization's "National Service Month." A complete Italian dinner was brought in from Café Gallo in Edison. After dinner, Unicans played a lively game of bingo with the veterans. According to Clark UNICO Preside...

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In what had to be the nicest day of the year so far, over two hundred pilgrims gathered at Holy Face Monastery in Clifton, New Jersey Sunday morning for the Feast of the Madonna del Sacro Monte. Unable to attend this glorious celebration of our Duesiciliano faith and culture the past two years, I was thrilled to return and happy to say that the fea...

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As part of a broader initiative about pre-professional opportunities for students, the Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies and the Italian Program at Montclair State University are pleased to offer a new internship in two parts: a summer internship portion at the Italian Trade Agency, New York, and a winter internship portion at C...

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The smell of Italian food came billowing out of Nutley’s Parks and Recreation Building on 44 Park Ave. when the Nutley-Belleville Columbus Day Parade Committee held their annual Taste of Italy Fundraiser.. Trays of food such as sausage and peppers, eggplant parmigiana and rollatini, penne vodka, balsamic glazed sausage, chicken marsala and francais...

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We never need an excuse to write about pizza or "Real Housewives of New Jersey," and this week we explore whether those two great tastes taste great together at "RHONJ" star Joe Gorga's new pizza and pasta joint in East Hanover.  As the ranking "RHONJ" expert on staff, I brought along Pete Genovese, the Munchmobile czar, Food Dude and chief of the...

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A Name is a Name is a Name We sat around a table in Moscow’s bar located across street from the playground of my youth, Feaster’s Park in New Brunswick, NJ.  It was just us, the men in the family; well, two men, one boy; the adults were Lenny the plumber and Len, Jr. the cop, a New Brunswick Police Officer.  We were, as they say, “‘shootin’ the bre...

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