Thursday, December 27, 2012
Food Network Star and Cedar Grove native Amanda Freitag takes on popular cooking competition.
Chef Amanda Freitag has always been a proud Jersey girl, having grown up in Cedar Grove before moving to New York to become a Food Network television star. Freitag moved to Cedar Grove with her parents when she was in second grade and later graduated from what was then known as Cedar Grove Memorial High School. She moved out when she started at the Culinary Institute of America but always comes back home for the holidays. Freitag got her culinary start right in her hometown and worked as a busgirl and a banquet waitress at the Friar Tuck Inn, now The Grove catering hall, which was located on Pompton Avenue. “I fell in love with the restaurant industry and I was interested in the kitchen and how it all worked,” said Freitag. “My home …
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Cedar Grove business opened in 1979 selling of trains and accessories.
Al Puntasecca has been a Cedar Grove business owner for the past 34 years, having opened Tony's Train Town in 1979. Puntasecca was once a construction engineer who got tired of working outside so he turned his passion into a business, naming his model train shop after his son Tony. “Model trains have been a hobby of mine all my life,” he said. “I worked outside for 40 years and I wanted to get out of the cold so I turned my hobby into a business.” Puntasecca has always loved model trains and has been playing with them since he was a kid. Tony's Train Town, located at 575 Pompton Ave. in Cedar Grove offers trains, parts, accessories, layouts and repairs. The store is filled from wall to wall with name-brand trains, puzzles, models, …
Friday, August 10, 2012
Don-Ric Self Storage Owner Rick Bond denies racism involved in monkey statue with 'Obama Must Go' T-shirt calling allegations 'ridiculous.'
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — The owner of a local storage business who dressed a monkey statue in an anti-Obama T-shirt said Wednesday the statement was not racially motivated. “It was not meant to be racial," business owner Rick Bond told Patch. Bond, a former councilman and police officer, placed the statue in front of his Cedar Grove business, Don-Ric Self Storage at 405 Little Falls Road but removed it Tuesday afternoon after people started complaining. “I absolutely never thought of it as racial,” Bond said. “It’s ridiculous.” The monkey statue sported a T-shirt saying “OMG Obama Must Go.” The statue was in front of Bond’s business for at least a few days. Bond would not say who dressed the statue, but added it was previously dressed in a Mets …
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