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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

Events

Tenafly Traveler Takes People Around The World In 50 Fabrics BERGENFIELD, N.J. — For more than 60 years, Judy Manton of Tenafly – traveler and language teacher extraordinaire – has been collecting stories and fabrics on her global adventures. One day Manton, also a cross-cultural studies professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, had a brainstorm. “I thought, Why keep all these wonderful things under my bed? Why not do something with them?” she said. And so the traveling exhibit, called “Fabulous Fabrics from Five Continents,” is making its way around Bergen County. Now it’s at the Bergenfield Public Library, where the tireless Manton,…

by Lorraine Ash

02/14/2017

Events

Story Of Baby Who Died Inspires River Vale Students To Help RIVER VALE, N.J. — Sixth-graders at Holdrum Middle School in River Vale listened in awe Monday as Lisa Oliveri Vreeland of Closter, founder of Robby’s Rabbits, told them the story of her stillborn son. How he lived to four days old. How she spent every moment she could with him. The difference he made. The love she still feels. For the second year in a row, the students at Holdrum are supporting Robby’s Rabbits as a public service project. The nonprofit sends a free stuffed rabbit — or another kind of stuffed animal — to newly bereaved parents all around the world. It is something cuddl…

by Lorraine Ash

02/14/2017

News

Report: Teaneck Coach Pretended To Fly Before Fatal Fall From WTC Escalator TEANECK, N.J. — Jenny Santos, the Teaneck rowing coach who fell to her death from an escalator at Oculus, was pretending to be a superhero before the tragedy, the Daily News reported Monday. It was originally reported that she was reaching for her sister’s hat before the fall at the Manhattan transit hub Saturday. According to the Daily News, a video shows Santos was laying prone on the banister as if she were flying before she lost her balance. She then fell from the street level to the C1 level on the main concourse. Santos, 29, was an assistant coach at the Bergen County Rowing Academ…

by Lorraine Ash

02/13/2017

Events

Future Doctor, 15, Wins North Jersey Brain Bee In Waldwick WALDWICK, N.J. — Victoria Vought of Holmdel won the 3rd Annual North Jersey Brain Bee, hosted Sunday by Reebel Brain Fitness in Waldwick. The competition, which featured 10 high school students, tested their knowledge of the brain and neuroscience. The runners-up were Tamanna Sarowar of Bergenfield and Lily Ge of Old Tappan, both students at Bergen County Academies. All won cash prizes. The next step for Vought, 15, who attends High Technology High School in Lincroft, is the nationals at the University of Maryland next month. Whoever wins on that level competes in the 2017 Brain Bee Worl…

by Lorraine Ash

02/12/2017

News

Paterson Congressman: Law Gives Access To Trump’s Tax Records Congressman Bill Pascrell (D-Dist.9) — with offices in Englewood, Lyndhurst, Passaic and Paterson — said a 1924 law could be used to examine President Donald Trump’s tax returns, USA Today reports. The rarely used law gives Congressional committees that create tax policy the power to see and study tax returns. Pascrell, a native son of Paterson who serves on the Ways and Means Committee, has asked its chairman, Rep. Kevin Brady of Texas, to order the Treasury Department to provide the returns directly to the committee, according to the news report. On his Facebook page, Pascrell has posted…

by Lorraine Ash

02/12/2017

News

Teaneck Rowing Coach Dies After Falling From World Trade Center Escalator TEANECK, N.J. — Jenny Santos, who fell to her death off the World Trade Center Oculus Saturday, was an assistant coach at the Teaneck-based Bergen County Rowing Academy (BCRA), Eyewitness News reported. Santos, 29, fell more than 30 feet to her death from a top-tier escalator when trying to grab her twin sister’s hat, according to the news report. The Kearny native, a physical education teacher, joined the coaching staff of BCRA last spring, according to the academy website. The academy’s boat pen is in the Teaneck section of Overpeck County Park. Coach Clemens Reinke of the academy told …

by Lorraine Ash

02/12/2017

Events

‘Therapist’ Who’s Treated 13,000 Cats Coming To Bergenfield BERGENFIELD, N.J. — Carole Wilbourn, the world-renowned “Cat Therapist,” is coming to the Bergenfield Public Library to share her knowledge of what makes cats purr. Wilbourn, the author of six books of cat psychology, cofounded The Cat Practice, the first feline-only hospital. That was in 1973. Ever since then, Wilbourn has worked with cats and their guardians. She’s helped at least 13,000 dual-species households across the globe in person or by phone or video conference. Frankly, Wilbourne has seen everything. And she’ll tell you all about it at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 7 at the Bergenfiel…

by Lorraine Ash

02/10/2017

Neighbors

Ridgewood Instagram Foodie Posts ‘Literally All The Food’ RIDGEWOOD, N.J. — Literally All The Food, the Instagram account of Brigitt Earley of Ridgewood, has gone from zero to more than 10,000 followers... in just six months. The “literally” part refers to the span of cool food Earley makes or finds in her own kitchen, throughout Bergen County and beyond. We’re talking all three meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner. And dessert. We’re talking buffalo chicken sandwiches, cheese fondue, strawberry cream puffs, mint chocolate chip milkshakes – all the food. The name distinguishes her account from others in the Instagram universe. “‘Literally All The…

by Lorraine Ash

02/10/2017

News

NJ Transit Pascack Valley Train Affected As Blizzard Buries Bergen NJ Transit is experiencing a 15-minute rail delay and 30-minute bus delay, but is cross-honoring systemwide, including private carriers, due to winter weather. Here are current updates: All 196 and 197 lines of bus service will originate and terminate at the West Milford Park and Ride. Pascack Valley Line train #1630 — the 2:45 p.m. from Spring Valley — is cancelled due to operational issues. Upper Ridgewood Bus 163 service will start and end at the Ridgewood Bus Terminal due to slippery conditions. Bus 158 in Fort Lee will operate on a detour. At the Wayne Transit Center, the parking fee…

by Lorraine Ash

02/09/2017

Lifestyle

Ridgewood Restaurateur Ate His Way Back To Health RIDGEWOOD, N.J. — Name a place to eat in Ridgewood where there are 83 gluten-free foods available daily. That would be The Sensible Fork. For the past year, Owner George Hauck has been drawing health-conscious diners to his Oak Street restaurant. They come back for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Why? Because Hauck has gotten them over their big hurdle: assuming healthful food tastes bad. Sure, there’s regular fare, too. But why is so much gluten free? “Gluten causes high blood sugar,” said Hauck, 49, of Colts Neck. Seven years ago, he was a Dunkin’ Donuts franchisee with a strong coffe…

by Lorraine Ash

02/09/2017

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