Category: Examiner Opinion

Newell Elementary School Principal Kelly Huggins told her pupils that If they succeeded in the Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge she would cut her hair and donate it to Locks of Love. The pupils met the reading challenge and Huggins made good on her promise. ALLENTOWN — This year, Newell Elementary School Principal Kelly Huggins cut…

Election 2015 By ANDREW MARTINS Staff Writer ALLENTOWN – Decades of a Republican majority in Allentown will end in 2015 after voters elect two newcomers to the Borough Council. Two three-year terms on the town’s governing body will be on the ballot on Nov. 3. The winners will take their seats in January. Incumbent Republicans…

By Kellie Freeze, www.channelguidemag.com Jesse Stone is back. After an almost three-and-a-half-year hiatus, the rough and tough lawman returns, and for cowriter and series star Tom Selleck, “It’s been way too long!” In “Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise,” the ninth film in the franchise based on the books by the late author Robert B. Parker,…

In theaters now By Paul Hall www.channelguidemag.com In the new Steven Spielberg drama Bridge of Spies, James Donovan (Tom Hanks) is a simple insurance lawyer in Brooklyn during the Cold War. When the law firm at which he is a partner decides to represent a man accused of spying in America for the Soviet Union,…

By Lucie M. Winborne, ReMIND Magazine Kids and lunchboxes … they go together like, well, peanut butter and jelly, don’t they? Most folks of a certain age probably remember how important the search for just the right box was back in their school days. But they’re not just for kids anymore — lunchbox collecting is…

KAREN KESTEN/STAFF Early signs of fall can be seen in central New Jersey.

ARE WE THERE YET Lori Clinch One of the nice things about naming a puppy Sadie is that it rhymes with baby. That comes in quite handy when calling for her, greeting her at the door and although I couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket, the name allows me to do a lovely rendition…

By Kellie Freeze, www.channelguidemag.com For the first time since he was the epitome of 1990s cool in Saved by the Bell, Mark-Paul Gosselaar is starring in a sitcom — NBC’s Truth Be Told, premiering Oct. 16. It’s not like he hasn’t been busy, though, as Gosselaar previously starred in Steven Bochco’s legal drama Raising the…

In theaters now By Paul Hall www.channelguidemag.com Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is trying to find his way in the world in the new film The Walk. Philippe is an artist and marches to the beat of his own drum. He is introduced to Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley), who is a master high-wire artist. Under Papa…