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Lawmakers Stage Anti-Garrett Rally Outside Oradell Credit Union
ORADELL, N.J. -- Assemblyman Tim Eustace, D-Maywood, led a rally on Friday to call on Affinity Credit Union, to pull the plug on its support for who he calls "anti-LGBT, bigot Congressman Scott Garrett."
According to Credit Unions Online, Affinity is the state's largest credit union, with more than 132,000 members and assets of nearly $2.5 billion.
Among others, Politico reported in 2015 that Garrett had said that he hadn't paid his National Republican Congressional Committee dues because it had supported gay candidates.
Since then, State Farm, PNC Bank, Capital One, UBS Group, G…
Happy Birthday To Wyckoff's Steve Doocy
WYCKOFF, N.J. -- Happy birthday to author, TV personality and Wyckoff resident Steve Doocy, who turns 60 on Wednesday.
Doocy, is one of the hosts of "Fox & Friends," a job he's had since 1998.
He was born on Oct. 19, 1956, in Algona, Iowa, and raised in Kansas. He went to the University of Kansas, was a disc jockey on the student radio station and graduated with a journalism degree.
Doocy worked as a TV news reporter for several different news stations, and was a morning TV anchor. He's also authored two New York Times bestsellers, "The Mr. and Mrs. Happy Handbook"…
Longtime Teaneck Teacher Gives Voice To WWI Soldier Poets
TEANECK, N.J. -- Alice Twombly, a former longtime teacher at Teaneck High School, will present "World War I in Poetry: The Voices of Poet Soldiers" on Friday, Oct. 21, at the Teaneck Public Library.
The presentation will show how the view of the war changed, as the war progressed, as seen through the voices of British soldiers, and a few Americans, Twombly told the Daily Voice.
She said the poems provide a contrast between when soldiers first entered the war and their rapid realization of what that war really meant. Early on, the poetry reflects a lot of bravado, as the war is see…
Louis DeMatteo, 100, Rutherford Resident
RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Louis DeMatteo, of Rutherford, died on Monday, Oct.17. He was 100.
A sought-after chef, DeMatteo began his career at the Hotel Douglas in Newark back in the 1920s, and he continued at various Italian restaurants in northern New Jersey.
In addition to being an avid golfer, he was a member of the Nutley AMVETS and an active member of the Rutherford Bible Chapel. He cooked countless meals for both organizations after he retired.
DeMatteo is survived by his children, Katherine DeMatteo, Gerard DeMatteo and his wife Mickie, and Marianne Chicola and her husband Timothy; gr…
