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The Nutley-Belleville Columbus Day Parade and Italian Heritage Committee was recently honored for its contributions to the community as part of an annual Italian Heritage Month celebration. The Essex County Board of County Commissioners also paid tribute to another local resident at their 2023 celebration: the Rev. Thomas Nicastro, pastor at St. Ma...

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The Department of Music, Performing Arts & Music Technologies at County College of Morris (CCM) is presenting The Light in the Piazza, the annual musical this Fall Semester, to entertain and transport the cast, crew and audience to Italy in the 1950s, for a test on love and secrecy.  Based on the 1960 novella by Elizabeth Spencer, the story is abou...

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Several students were honored as the Columbus Day Essay Contest winners at the Clark UNICO Italian-American Festival on October 8. Winners included Jionni Jacobs, a fifth grader at Frank K. Hehnly School; Trang Le, a fifth grader at Valley Road School; Luca Fruzzetti, a seventh grader at Carl H. Kumpf Middle School; and Sienna Guarino, a sophomore...

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Plainfield's Chapter of UNICO celebrated Italian Heritage Day & Columbus Day on Monday, October 9th. Thank you to all who came out to attend this event, which was held on the corner of Belmont Ave & Hamilton Boulevard. Thank you to Bob & April Bengivenga for sharing your property for this event. Thank you to Congressman Pallone for joining us (alon...

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A popular Philadelphia-based pizzeria is expanding in New Jersey. Santucci’s Original Square Pizza is opening a location in Brigantine. The new spot will be located at 3800 Brigantine Blvd., in the space of a former 7-Eleven store. An opening date for the restaurant has yet to be announced. ”It’s official! We’re excited to announce that Santucci’s...

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The Amerigo Vespucci Society (AVS) of Long Branch, New Jersey once again celebrated Italian American Heritage and Culture month in as many ways as they could. Their current President, Joseph Mossa, stated, "as the nation's oldest Italian American Mutual Aid Society, the AVS wanted to make sure it did all it could in October to celebrate and acknowl...

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It was a weekend of celebration for the Township of East Hanover (NJ) which began with a packed Columbus Day Dinner Dance on Friday night and culminated with the 17th Annual Columbus Day Parade along Ridgedale Avenue on Sunday. The dinner dance was held at the Hanover Manor and had over 400 people dining, mingling and dancing to a fabulous Italian...

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Arthur L. Johnson High School Italian Teacher Alessandra Bonacchi was just awarded a $20,000 grant from the Italian American Committee on Education (IACE) Italian Language Center under the supervision of the Consulate General of Italy in New York.    The grant, designed to promote the study of the Italian language, was reviewed by the Italian Minis...

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The Feast of St. Gerard. Friday, Oct. 13, 2023 to Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. St. Lucy’s Church, 118 Seventh Avenue, Newark, NJ. In the back of St. Lucy’s Church in Newark is a dim chapel where the carved likeness of Gerard Majello is kept. Throughout most of the year, visitors gather here at the foot of the marble altar to ask for blessings. Last week,...

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Currently, there are over 26 million Americans of Italian descent in the United States, with two million residing in the Garden State and, at a borough council meeting this week, Mayor Matt Anesh declared October 2023 as Italian Heritage Month in South Plainfield. In the proclamation, which was accepted by members of the Plainfields’ Chapter of UNI...

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