Category: Examiner Opinion

  • High School adds to all aspects of curriculum

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer ALLENTOWN — Every new school year brings changes. Last week, Allentown High School Principal Christopher Nagy outlined some of the new developments at AHS for the 2005-06 school year. According to Nagy, the school has hired five new staff members and has made two part-time staff…

  • Letters

    Some residents not opposed to sports fields After reading the article “Residents petition against ball fields on Wygant Road” in the Aug. 25 Examiner, we apparently misunderstood the intent of the petition. We thought we were signing to request the fields not include lights and a public address system. We were unaware that we were…

  • Tax breaks could ease our pain at the pumps

    Coda Greg Bean Who’s the hardest-working guy in New Jersey this week? Well, if you notice what’s been going on at your local gas station, it’s the guy who’s out there with a long pole, changing the prices every half-hour. I know this is a fluid situation, and Lord only knows what the price of…

  • High school gears up for robotics club

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer ALLENTOWN — A $10,000 grant from the Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. will help Allentown High School’s new robotics club become a reality. AHS parent and Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) employee Chris Nalbone asked his company to sponsor the robotics program called FIRST, or For Inspiration and Recognition of…

  • Obituaries

    Kathleen D. Carbone Mrs. Carbone, of Manalapan, died Aug. 26 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., she had lived in Queens, N.Y., before moving to Manalapan 38 years ago. She was a communicant of St. Thomas More Roman Catholic Church, Manalapan. Mrs. Carbone is survived by her husband, John…

  • Letters

    Former religious director discusses Roosevelt The controversy surrounding the proposed yeshiva in Roosevelt is very disheartening, but I find the divisive name-calling and charges of anti-Semitism to be particularly sad. Having served as the religious director of Congregation Anshei Roosevelt for almost three years (1990-1993), and having lived in Roosevelt for over two years while…

  • Shahn mural survives roof repair unscathed

    BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer JEFF GRANIT staff Lacey Hickey, 6, stops to take a look at the Ben Shaun mural in Roosevelt Public School in Roosevelt. The art is covered up in preparation for the school’s roof repair. ROOSEVELT — Artist Ben Shahn’s mural has sustained yet another potential brush…