Lauren Kidd Ferguson

Community Reporter

lkferguson@dailyvoice.com

Lauren Kidd Ferguson began her journalism career in 2004 as a statehouse reporter for Gannett New Jersey. She was a member of a team that covered state government and politics for seven daily newspapers throughout New Jersey. Her coverage of the McGreevey administration and young voters earned her the New Jersey Press Association’s award for best rookie reporter in the state. Lauren also served as a reporter for Gannett’s flagship New Jersey paper, the Asbury Park Press. She covered communities along the Jersey Shore, and won investigative reporting awards for writing about police brutality in Seaside Park. She has also worked as a speechwriter and spokesperson for the New Jersey Department of Children and Families, as well as a communications manager for Children’s Rights, a national advocacy organization that uses the law to reform foster care systems. Lauren graduated from the College of New Jersey. She grew up in Ringwood, and now calls Waldwick home. She believes everyone has a story to tell, and she’d love to hear yours.

Lauren was formerly a reporter at Daily Voice.

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Seniors Invite Bergen Residents ‘Who Care About The Future' To Rally Seniors Invite Bergen Residents ‘Who Care About The Future' To Rally
Seniors Invite Bergen Residents ‘Who Care About The Future' To Rally POMPTON PLAINS, N.J. – Pat Thaler has always been a political activist. “I’ve been to Washington on many marches, anti-war, pro-choice, and so on,” she told Daily Voice. But at 84 years old, she doesn’t have “the energy” to travel to participate in the upcoming Women’s March on Washington, she said. The march is expected to draw thousands to the nation’s capital this Saturday, the day after President-Elect Donald Trump takes office. RELATED: Progressive Women Find Leader in Wyckoff Mom Who Worked For Trump Instead of remaining frustrated that she can’t travel, Thaler took action. She ga…
Oakland Hockey Community To Pay Tribute To Late Player Oakland Hockey Community To Pay Tribute To Late Player
Oakland Hockey Community To Pay Tribute To Late Player OAKLAND, N.J. – The Oakland ice hockey community will be remembering one of their own on Friday. David and Jill Altana – the parents of Michael Altana who passed away at just 14 – will be presented with an Indian Hills Braves jersey with their son’s name and the number 45 – his longtime hockey number. “He would have been a senior this year, and he played hockey, so we thought it would be a nice gesture to present the jersey to the family,” said Steve Lovell, President of the Indian Hills Hockey Parents Association. Lovell ran the Bergen Edge youth hockey club when Michael was a player, and…
Coach Shapes Paterson Boy Into Jiu-Jitsu Phenom Coach Shapes Paterson Boy Into Jiu-Jitsu Phenom
Coach Shapes Paterson Boy Into Jiu-Jitsu Phenom TOTOWA, N.J. – Jalen Mitchell may only be 10 years old, but he is already taking the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu world by storm. The 4th grader at School 25 in Paterson is the first youth national Jiu-Jitsu champion from the city. “I like competing,” Jalen said before a recent training session at his gym, Unity School of Jiu-Jitsu – New Jersey, in Totowa. Jalen’s father, Naji Mitchell, credits much of his son’s success to his coach, Devhonte Johnson. RELATED: Jiu-Jitsu Expands Horizons Of Paterson Champ And His Students Johnson, the head trainer at the school, travels the globe to compete and cu…
Progressive Women Find Leader In Wyckoff Mom Who Worked For Trump Progressive Women Find Leader In Wyckoff Mom Who Worked For Trump
Progressive Women Find Leader In Wyckoff Mom Who Worked For Trump WYCKOFF, N.J. – Before Erin Chung became a stay-at-home mom raising three children in Wyckoff, she had another job. For more than five years, she worked for President-Elect Donald Trump, as marketing manager for the Miss Universe organization. She flew on his plane with him and stayed in his children’s private suite at his Mar-a-Lago Florida estate, she said. But “my whole time working for that company, I just didn’t feel good about what I was promoting and I didn’t feel good about him as a person or a leader,” she said. Days after Trump was elected President, Chung began chatting with a f…
Teen With Rare Disease Inspires Elmwood Park To Run For Awareness Teen With Rare Disease Inspires Elmwood Park To Run For Awareness
Teen With Rare Disease Inspires Elmwood Park To Run For Awareness ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. – A few years ago, Denise and Sal Ingui didn’t know the signs of Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome. How would they? After all, it is estimated that just one in every 300,000 people have the rare genetic disease. Then in 2015, they learned their daughter Dee Dee was one of them. The disease affects the gene that suppresses tumor growth and greatly increases the risk of cancer when patients aren’t monitored. “It goes undiagnosed a lot. In my daughter’s case, we didn’t know until she had an episode where the polyp was so large it caused a blockage,” Denise Ingui told Daily Voice. “B…
New Ramsey Gym Pumps Members Up With Technology New Ramsey Gym Pumps Members Up With Technology
New Ramsey Gym Pumps Members Up With Technology RAMSEY, N.J. – Ramsey’s newest gym thrives on technology. Touchscreens allow members to choose virtual classes — like zumba, yoga, pilates and barre — then follow along with instructors who appear on a huge screen. Same goes for spinning. Want to cycle through France, South Africa or California? Choose your destination on the touchscreen, and your guided tour will appear on the big screen. “We are cutting edge … this gym is smarter than we are,” joked Cheryl Ryan, area Group X manager for 24 Hour Fitness Ramsey. The 38,832-square-foot club held its grand opening on Jan. 7. “People were w…
Garfield Artist's Canvases Are Her Clients Garfield Artist's Canvases Are Her Clients
Garfield Artist's Canvases Are Her Clients GARFIELD, N.J. – When Erika Galloza started doing makeup and body art a year ago, she wanted to showcase her creativity. Armed with a cell phone camera and a window where the perfect light came into her Garfield home at exactly 3 p.m. every afternoon, her @erika.fx Instagram account was born. Galloza now has nearly 43,000 followers who get to see her creativity at work. “Everyone’s face is a different type of canvas and every type of makeup is a different type of paint,” Galloza said.  “I could use eye-liner, not for my eyes, I could put it on my lips.  I could use eye shadow to color in …
Late Oakland Woman Inspires Son's Dog Park Dream Late Oakland Woman Inspires Son's Dog Park Dream
Late Oakland Woman Inspires Son's Dog Park Dream OAKLAND, N.J. – As eighth-graders at Oakland’s Valley Middle School, Ryan Schwertfeger and his classmates were tasked with doing projects to benefit the community. Some kids picked up litter. Others volunteered at food banks. Schwertfeger's mother suggested he try to get a dog park in town.   That was eight years ago. And he is still at it. “Most people with their projects, they did it, they finished it, and that was it,” said Schwertfeger, now a 22-year-old college senior. “For me, I thought, ‘It’s not there yet, so keep going.’” Years and a handful of proposed locations later, the borou…
Paterson's Lone Theater To Screen 'Paterson' The Movie This Month Paterson's Lone Theater To Screen 'Paterson' The Movie This Month
Paterson's Lone Theater To Screen 'Paterson' The Movie This Month PATERSON, N.J. – Movie-goers will soon have the opportunity to view the film “Paterson” in the same city where it was set and shot. According to a report on Northjersey.com, Paterson’s only movie theater, the Fabian 8, will be showing the film for a week starting on Friday, Jan. 27. “It’s phenomenal that we’re getting it. The movie puts Paterson on the map. This is the best place to come see it,” Ekaterina Valiotis, manager of the Center City Mall, where the Fabian is located, told Northjersey.com. In the movie, Adam Driver stars as a bus driver named Paterson. He drives his route, observe…
Ramsey Yogi Helps Kids Channel Inner Strength Ramsey Yogi Helps Kids Channel Inner Strength
Ramsey Yogi Helps Kids Channel Inner Strength RAMSEY, N.J. – Shari Germershausen knows her purpose. “I really feel so strongly about building inner strength,” Germershausen said, sitting on her mat in her sunny second-floor yoga studio in downtown Ramsey. After going through a divorce, Germershausen rediscovered her inner strength and followed her heart. The mother of two young daughters left a high-salary public relations job in New York City that didn’t make her happy, emptied her 401K, and poured the money into opening Zen Family Yoga in her hometown. She said she told herself, “I believe in this so much, and I am not going to let…
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