Peter Mattiace:
CLASS OF 1969
Cliffside Park High SchoolClass of 1969
Cliffside park, NJ
Saint Peter's CollegeClass of 1973
Jersey city, NJ
Lincoln SchoolClass of 1966
Fairview, NJ
English Neighborhood Elementary SchoolClass of 1963
Fairview, NJ
Peter's Story
I commuted to Saint Peter's College in Jersey City, which persuaded me NEVER to have Tonnelle Avenue (or northern New Jersey, for that matter) in my life.
I worked for The Bergen News in Palisades Park during high school and college, then relatively briefly for The Dispatch, and for newspapers in Waynesboro, Va., and Atlantic City.
I spent nearly 27 years with The Associated Press as chief of bureau in Atlantic City (covering South Jersey); Pittsburgh (western Pennsylvania); Charleston, W.Va. (West Virginia); and Denver (Colorado and Wyoming).
It was always fun and occasionally exciting: the beginning of casino gambling in the East, offshore oil/gas, and Miss Americas; steel, coal and Appalachia; Columbine and the West. ... I told Bert Parks he'd be...Expand for more
en fired, flew with the Blue Angels, searched foreign fishing trawlers from a Coast Guard cutter, was the first reporter to visit East Coast oil rigs 100+ miles offshore, went into coal mines, toured NORAD and ICBM silos, covered the NFL, major league baseball and boxing, befriended a Miss California and the FIRST Miss America, and even danced with actress Janet Leigh. (I was drunk; she was amused.)
Lisa and I met in 1994. We have been in northwestern Ohio since January 2008 and we love it. (No, it's not Fairview. But then, what else is?) ... I've travelled to Europe many times and to Cuba, but not on assignment.
My mother, 88, is doing well in a nursing home in Englewood, and my wife's family is in Cape May County, so I get back often to Exit 18E.
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