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The Italian Teachers Association of New Jersey is sponsoring two Saturday morning webinars on Saturday, January 17, 2015 and Saturday, February 21, 2015.   Participants will receive two Professional Development Credits for each webinar and certificates will be emailed to you after each webinar. Our featured presenter is Suzanne Brancifo...

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The Italian American Heritage Club of Hunterdon County will hold its monthly meeting on Wednesday, June 17, at 7 p.m., at The Grand Colonial Restaurant on Rt. 173 in Asbury. The club will award several scholarships to recent high school graduates.   Entertainment will be provided by well-known entertainer, Jerry Castaldo. To make...

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by Jean Mikle   It's a celebration of all things Italian in Seaside Heights this weekend, as the borough hosts the 24th annual Ocean County Columbus Day Parade. But there is plenty to do and see in the borough before the parade marches down the Boulevard at 1 p.m. Sunday. A three-day Italian Festival, featuring lots of music, and tons o...

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The Center for Italian and Italian American Culture is offering two Peter Cocoziello Sr. scholarships this year, each in the amount of $2,500. The center administers the scholarship monies annually. The Peter Cocoziello Scholarship Fund was established in 2005 by Peter Cocoziello Sr. to be awarded to a deserving high school senior of Italian o...

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Forty-three years after "The Godfather," eight years after the final "Sopranos" episode, but only two years removed from "Jersey Shore," television has finally delivered an image of Italian-Americans that everyone can love.   The people who attended a sneak preview of the upcoming PBS series "The Italian-Americans" at Ramsey High School on S...

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by Rebecca Panico   The brothers that brought you Renato's Pizza Masters on Central Avenue in the Heights are now using their expertise to open an Italian-style deli on the same block. Bocelli's Italian Deli opened last week and a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 274 Central Ave. between Sherman Place and Manhattan Avenue is being held today....

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by Hasime Kukaj   Nutley resident John I. Gizzo was one of eight Essex County Superior Court judges appointed Thursday, Aug. 13, by the State Senate. Gizzo, a former Nutley attorney, was assigned to the Superior Court, Criminal Division, Essex County, Vicinage 5, according to official Supreme Court documents.   "I'm very pleased that...

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Members of Fort Lee's Saint Rocco's Society are carrying on a tradition that dates back almost nine decades. Nearly two-dozen members will carry a statue of their patron saint down Main Street on Sunday in Fort Lee's Italian Festival.   "It demonstrates our devotion and thanks to our Patron Saint Rocco for all he did to those that where...

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Artistic Director Lucine Amara invites vocalists of all ages around the world to apply now to the New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera 26th Annual International Vocal Competition. The application deadline is October 31, 2014. The New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera (Verismo Opera), the house opera company of the Bergen Performing Arts Cente...

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by Pamela MacKenzie   He may have some irreverent slants on life and some jokes in language that your mother wouldn't let you use, but Mike Marino redeamed himself Friday night by headlining a fundraising performance to benefit the darling of South Plainfied, six-year-old Brianna Feeney, who suffers from a rare genetic disorder known as Pall...

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