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Bio: Ivan Lajara joined the Daily Freeman in Kingston in January of 2001 as a copy editor for the News department. In 2004, he started working for the Life department and became editor of the section soon thereafter. He was named Editor of the Year in January 2006 by the Suburban Newspapers Association of America and subsequently won two awards by the same organization for 2008 in the Best Headline and Best Arts and Entertainment Criticism/Commentary categories. He has had a role in Las Noticias, the Freeman's Spanish weekly newspaper. He is the editor of Preview, the Freeman's weekly entertainment magazine, which won an honorable mention by the SNA in 2009 for best entertainment magazine. And he edits special sections like Your Wedding, Home and Garden, Health and Fitness, Getting Around and Designs for Living. His blog won second place in 2010's Associated Press writing contest. And he was named one of the top 25 young journalists in the nation by Editor & Publisher in 2011. The Peruvian native has lived in the Hudson Valley since 1996. Today, he lives in Kingston.

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