Debbie Mazella has joined the WJRZ radio family. Mazella will be the new disc jockey from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on WJRZ (100.1 FM), a Greater Media radio station.
Mazella says she may have grown up in New York, but she has been addicted to playing ski ball on the boardwalks of the Jersey Shore since she was a little girl visiting her grandparents at their Ocean Grove summer home. Mazella moved to New Jersey five years ago.
Before joining the Greater Media family, Mazella, whose radio career began in 1994, worked at various radio stations in New Jersey and New York, holding such positions as assistant program director and music director, among others. She was even a traffic reporter for a New York station.
In 2008, Mazella was inducted into the FMQB (Friday Morning Quarterback, a prestigious radio trade publication) Hall of Fame, having been voted one of the top five music directors in a secondary market.
Mazella realized she wanted to be on the radio and around the music she loves as early as age 11. Besides radio and music, Mazella is passionate about her cats and stays involved with Monmouth County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) fundraisers.
Mazella also does a lot of events with the March of Dimes in both New York and New Jersey, and usually emcees each year with Joe Causi of CBS-FM, New York.
With the addition of Mazella to mid days, Glen Kalina will move to the afternoon DJ position from 2 to 7 p.m., and Joe Stevens can be heard nights from 7 p.m. to midnight.
WRAT-FM and WJRZ-FM are radio stations of Greater Media Inc., which is the parent company of 23 AM and FM radio stations in the Boston, Detroit, Charlotte, New Jersey and Philadelphia markets. Greater Media also owns a group of weekly newspapers in central New Jersey and several telecommunications towers, located throughout the United States.
Holmdel resident Oscar Suros, P.E., has been named as the Engineer of the Year by the Central Jersey Branch of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Suros had a 34-year career at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey as chief structural engineer and assistant chief engineer for design. He joined T&M Associates, Middletown, in 2003 and was named its director of transportation in 2006. Suros is a licensed professional engineer in New Jersey and New York, and a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Ladacin Network, Wanamassa section of Ocean Township, has received a donation of educational software from Wayside Technology Group, Shrewsbury. According to Patricia Carlesimo, executive director at Ladacin, children and adults in the agency’s educational programs will benefit from the gift. Wayside Technology sells software and provides tech support to businesses. The nonprofit Ladacin provides educational, therapeutic, social, residential and support services for people with cerebral palsy or other physical disabilities in Monmouth and Ocean Counties.