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• October 29, 2024
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The Alliance College Alumni Association, through the arm of its 501(c)(3) Foundation (ACAAF), is now accepting applications for its annual scholarship. The Foundation Board voted to offer two $2,500 scholarships this year. The awards are available to graduating seniors and full-time students in post-secondary colleges, universities, or technical schools. The Foundation Trustees will select the winner after reviewing overall academic …

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• October 28, 2024
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Hello There – It’s no secret that Kamala Harris is desperate to shore up bleeding support for her and Democrats in northeast Pennsylvania and its large Polish-American population, who got a shoutout from her during the presidential debate. Since she doesn’t have anything useful to say about the economy, inflation, immigration, and crime, Kamala’s been courting Polish Pennsylvanians by running with …

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• September 23, 2024
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Dr. Lucja Swiatkowski Cannon Thursday, 19 September 2024 The Presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice-President Kamala Harris has been criticized for being one-sided where the hosts declined to fact-check Harris even once. This especially applied to a section of the debate on the war in Ukraine where the scale of disinformation was the greatest. In photo: Vice …

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• September 22, 2024
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HARVEST FEST 2024 at St. Mary Church, 94 Walnut Road, Hamburg. Friday, October 4 (4-9 PM) and Saturday, October 5 (12-9 PM). Friday Music: Flamin’ Dick & the Hot Rods Oldies Band (6-9 PM). Saturday Music: The Golden Tones Polka Band (1-4 PM); Polka Mass 4:30; The Northkill Creek Band (6-9 PM). Homemade foods, fun, activities, ongoing entertainment and games …

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• August 8, 2024
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Plan Mitigates Impacts for Customers in Bergen, Passaic and Hudson Counties Abandoned By Coach USA. Service Begins August 17 NEWARK, NJ – NJ TRANSIT will initiate an emergency bus service plan in Bergen, Passaic and Hudson counties beginning August 17th, for routes abandoned by Coach USA with limited advance notice. The plan, which required a monumental effort from NJ TRANSIT’s bus service …

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• August 8, 2024
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HAVE YOU EVER SHOT HOME MOVIES? Agata Zborowska, an assistant professor at the University of Warsaw and a research scholar at the University of Chicago, is working on a project on home movies and related stories of Polish Chicago. The project aims to tell the lesser-known story of the Polish community in Chicago by giving voice to their members and …

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• July 31, 2024
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By Robert Strybel Warsaw Correspondent What organizers had hailed as the world’s most “inclusive” Olympics, began with a blasphemous parody of one of Christianity’s most sacred icons –  Leonardo da Vinci’s portrayal of Jesus Christ sharing a final meal with his Twelve Apostles prior to His Crucifixion. A line-up of freaky drag queens, gaudily done up in kitschy wigs, feathers …

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• July 30, 2024
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By Dr. Lucja Swiatkowski Cannon Monday, 22 July 2024 01:22 PM EDT At the concluding press conference of the NATO summit, President Joe Biden addressed himself to the unsuitability of former President Donald Trump as the leader of NATO. He said that Trump did not have a commitment to NATO and will not support Ukraine. In response to a question, …

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• July 27, 2024
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LAKEWOOD TOWNSHIP, NJ– People who have emigrated to the United States and wish to become citizens may be eligible for free classes at the Ocean County Library Lakewood Branch, designed to help in passing their naturalization tests. Registration will begin Thursday, August 1 for classes that will commence Thursday, September 19 and continue each Thursday through November 7. Classes will …

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• July 9, 2024
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Forty exceptionally talented scholars from Poland received grants through the Kosciuszko Foundation 2025 Exchange Program to the U.S. They will soon embark on a transformative journey that many have described as a life-changing experience. The annual ceremony was held in May at the residence of the U.S. Ambassador to Poland, Mark Brzezinski. Ambassador Brzezinski and Marek Skulimowski, President and Executive Director of the Kosciuszko …

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• May 31, 2024
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NEW JERSEY – The Passaic County Office of Solid Waste & Recycling Programs, a division of PCDHS, will be offering all county residents the opportunity to recycle their unwanted tires safely and easily on Sunday, June 9, 2024 rain or shine from 8:30 am to 1:30 pm at the City of Passaic Employee Lot, 333 Passaic Street. This free program …

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• May 12, 2024
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The Social Security Board of Trustees recently released its annual report on the financial status of the health of the Social Security Trust Funds. The combined asset reserves of the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance (OASI and DI) Trust Funds are projected to have enough dedicated revenue to pay all scheduled benefits and associated administrative costs until 2035, …

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• May 12, 2024
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By John Czop JERSEY CITY, NJ – KATYN FOREST MASSACRE MEMORIAL DAY was commemorated on Sunday, April 28, 2024 from 3 to 5 pm with approximately 300 in attendance. They squeezed into a tight space between the recently erected and unnecessary five foot wall in front of the Katyn Memorial and the base of sculptor Andrzej Pitynski’s massive bronze statue …

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• April 28, 2024
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By John Czop JERSEY CITY, NJ – On Sunday afternoon, April 7th, 2024, The Katyn Forrest Massacre Memorial Committee, Inc. held a commemoration of the murder, on Stalin’s orders, of approximately 22,000 Polish Army prisoners of war in Katyn Forest and other killing fields in the Western Soviet Union.  This communist crime without punishment was perpetrated in April 1940, when …

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• April 15, 2024
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Dehnhard previously launched the Polish-American Chamber of Commerce, North East Westfield, NJ: Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook & Cooper, P.C, announced that Karolina A. Dehnhard was appointed to the Board of Directors for the Boys & Girls Club of Union County. Ms. Dehnhard is a partner in Lindabury’s Divorce & Family Law Group and managing director of the International Law Group of the Westfield-based firm. Karolina Dehnhard has …

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• April 12, 2024
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NEW YORK – A decorated military veteran and law enforcement official who has dedicated his life to serving his town and his country, Patrick Chludzinski has been endorsed by the Erie County Republican and Conservative committees to run for the New York State Assembly in the 143rd district (Cheektowaga and Lancaster, and the Villages of Depew, Lancaster, and Sloan) Born …

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• April 8, 2024
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Ms. Diane Elaine Markoya, nee Czop, recently resumed playing the violin.  In 1975, she graduated, with High Honors from Ridgewood High School, in Ridgewood, New Jersey, where she played First Violin in the High School’s award winning orchestra. Photo: Diane with her Dziadek’s Violin and this writer at the Danbury Symphony Orchestra Concert of March 17, 2024. A 1979 B.S. …

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• April 4, 2024
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NEW YORK – The American Association of the Friends of Kosciuszko at West Point (AAFKWPT) invite the Polish community to attend the annual General Tadeusz Kosciuszko events on Friday, May 3rd and Saturday, May 4th. First, an academic conference with morning and afternoon sessions will be held on Friday, May 3rd, beginning at 9 a.m.  Participation in this conference requires …

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• March 23, 2024
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NEW YORK – After 4 years of being away (mostly due to COVID), Val’s Dyngus Day Weekend is BACK! It will be held Sunday, March 31st and Monday, April 1st, 2024. What makes it even better, we are back at the newly renovated M-Hotel Buffalo (formerly the Millennium Hotel) in Cheektowaga, NY. I would like to share with you what’s …

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• March 22, 2024
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Social Security Commissioner Martin O’Malley today announced he is taking four vital steps to immediately address overpayment issues customers and the agency have experienced. Commissioner O’Malley testified before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging and the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance (excerpt): “For 88 years, the hard-working employees of the Social Security Administration have strived to pay the right …

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• March 18, 2024
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80th Anniversary of the Martyrdome of the Bl. Ulma Family WASHINGTON, D.C. – Join Rabbi Noam E. Marans, Director of Interreligious and Intergroup Relations at the American Jewish Committee (AJC), and Rev. Walter F. Kedjierski, Executive Director of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs at the USCCB, for a conversation on what it means to “commit ourselves to genuine …

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• March 18, 2024
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At Poland’s Consulate General in NYC By John Czop At 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 13, 2024 approximately 70 Polish Americans from Metropolitan New York City met with six Deputies of the Sejm, the Lower House of Poland’s National Assembly, at the Polish Consulate located in the elegant De Lamar mansion in the Murray Hill section of Manhattan.  The following …

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• March 16, 2024
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By Bill Donohue The heroics of St. Patrick are not appreciated as much as they should be. He is the first person in history to publicly condemn slavery, and one of the first leaders to champion the cause of equal rights. There is much to celebrate on March 17. Fortunately, his writings, though slim, are eye-opening accounts of his life: Letter …

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• March 16, 2024
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Andrzej Duda, President of Poland Donald Tusk, Prime Minister of Poland Radoslaw Sikorski, Minister of Foreign Affairs Szymon Hołownia, Speaker of the Sejm Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska, Marshal of the Senate Marek Magierowski, Ambassador of Poland to the United States STATEMENT OF POLISH AMERICAN ORGANIZATIONS Andrzej Duda, the President of the Republic of Poland, and,  Prime Minister Donald Tusk to Washington, DC, …

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• March 11, 2024
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“In Memory of the Ulma Family” Silver Coin Narodowy Bank Polski has put into circulation silver coins commemorating a Polish family from Markowa village who helped their Jewish neighbours during World War II. Narodowy Bank Polski has announced that a new collector “In Memory of the Ulma Family” is available on sale as of 22 February 2024. The silver coin …

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• March 10, 2024
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ILLINOIS – On Saturday, March 16, 2024, from 10 am to 4 pm at the Chicago History Museum please join us for the free Community Celebration and Day of Dialogue Symposium. The Polish American Historical Association, the Polish Museum of America, and the Chicago History Museum will bring together a symposium featuring sessions on the current exhibition, Back Home: Polish …

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• March 9, 2024
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ORCHARD LAKE, Michigan (3-4-24) – The Polish Institute of Culture & Research (PICR) and the Orchard Lake Schools community are thrilled to welcome Brother Guy Consolmagno to campus on Monday, March 18, 2023, to deliver a talk about the work of Polish astronomer and mathematician Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543) and that of the Vatican Observatory. He will speak to St. Mary’s …

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• March 9, 2024
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ORCHARD LAKE, Michigan (3-4-24) – The Polish Institute of Culture & Research (PICR) at Orchard Lake invites you to the 2nd Annual Pisanki Workshop on Saturday, March 16, on the campus of the Orchard Lake Schools. This year, three instructor-led workshops will teach participants the art of creating traditional Polish Pisanki Easter eggs using the wax-resist method. “Last year, this event …

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• March 9, 2024
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After more than thirty-one years in law enforcement and almost 11 years as the President of the New Jersey State Policemen’s Benevolent Association (NJSPBA), Patrick Colligan has announced his retirement effective May 1. This announcement marks the end of a distinguished chapter in his law enforcement career that began at the Franklin Police Department and finished with his election as …

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• March 1, 2024
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DEADLINE: APRIL 12, 2024 The Kosciuszko Foundation is currently accepting applications for 2024 Summer Studies Abroad Program. The Kosciuszko Foundation offers Tomaszkiewicz-Florio and Wisconsin Study Polish Scholarships for students who wish to study Polish at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow or the John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin. The Jagiellonian University offers programs from 2 to 6 weeks. Students can …