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May 28, 2015 at 12:00am — May 31, 2015 12:00am 1053 Waterloo Road | Stanhope, NJ 07874 The 2nd Annual SMS Italian Festival is a non-profit event that will support the children of St Michael School. All proceeds will be used for facility upgrades to provide a safe and healthy environment for learning.   Our Goal: Placing a focus on dev...

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Italian music, food and culture filled Roselle Park's Casano Community Center on Sunday, Aug. 16 as residents celebrated Italian Day. "Italian Day was another success in our ongoing effort to salute the background of Parkers as we move ahead as a strong, vibrant community," Roselle Park Mayor Carl Hokanson said.   The event was kicked o...

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by Ross Hinds   Fairfield, New Jersey is the most Italian place in the United States according to the United States Census Bureau, whose latest numbers came out earlier this month. Just more than half of residents — 50.3 percent — of its 7,475 residents claim Italian ancestry. Less than a percentage point behind, at 49.5 percent, i...

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From February 28th - March 5th, The Montessori Children's Academy (MCA) celebrated Montessori Education Week within its schools and throughout the surrounding communities. More than 400 students from MCA's Chatham, and Short Hills campuses created artwork representing some of their favorite Montessori materials, including a replica of the Mont...

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By Heather Haddon The New Jersey Legislature is the latest group appealing to the Italian government to save its consulate in Newark. Republican Sen. Joe Kyrillos introduced a resolution Monday to keep open New Jersey's only full-fledged consulate, which is scheduled to shut in March 2014.   "This house urges the Italian government to...

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Montclair Deputy Mayor Robert J. Russo was honored by the Essex County Board of Chosen Freeholders during its Italian Heritage Month Celebration held at the Hall of Records on Wednesday, October 1, 2014.   The event was co-sponsored by Freeholders Brendan Gill of Montclair (District 5) and Leonard Luciano of West Caldwell (District 4), who a...

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Gennaro "Jerry" Bruno Jr. knows the ingredients to success: It starts with family. The 25-year-old owner of Palermo bakeries got early experience in entrepreneurism through his parents, Giovanna and Gennaro Bruno, who opened their first bakery 26 years ago.   "Coming here from Italy, there was a demand for (Italian) baked goods and pastries...

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by Chris Jordan   We all know about Frank Sinatra the singer. But how much do we known about Sinatra the civil rights activist? Maybe not as much as we should, but those who attend the Sinatra Centennial symposium — noon to 4 p.m. Saturday at Wilson Hall on the campus of Monmouth University in West Long Branch — will perhaps have a...

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By Derek Harper When Atlantic City hosts its inaugural American Palio horse race in October, a delegation from the event's ancestral home in Italy is expected to be in town to ensure it gets off on the right hoof. Italian organizers are working to arrange a visit from two of the most successful jockeys in the Palio's history, said Alarico Rossi,...

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Hanno preso il largo le luminarie che da Molfetta raggiungeranno Hoboken, nel New Jersey per illuminare l'89esima edizione dell'Hoboken Italian festival - The Feast of Madonna dei Martiri, la festa gemella, in onore della patrona di Molfetta, a cui partecipano, oltre ai molfettesi, tutti gli italiani, di prima, seconda e terza generazione, che risi...

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