AUGUST 28-SEPTEMBER 3, 2014 Your Local News
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The Home News Sun Safety for Your Children p10
SCHOOLS ARE OPEN! Youngsters and their parents all crowded out in front of George Wolf Elementary School in Bath on Monday morning as classes resumed for the 201415 school year in the Northampton Area School District. – Home News photo
Op-Ed
LABOR DAY MESSAGE Northampton Middle
Labor Day is our day we are renewing only holiday that is our commitment to devoted to the workcreating good jobs, ing men and women restoring retireof this great nation. ment security for all Across Pennsylvania, workers, improving thousands of workeducational and job ers, many of them training opportuniproud union memties, and restoring the bers and their famibargaining strength lies will celebrate of working men and By Richard their contributions women. Our agenin keeping our econ- Bloomingdale, da for Pennsylvania President, omy and our nation and the nation is to Pennsylvania strong. expand the middle AFL-CIO Thousands of us class and rebuild will be marching in parades, main street communities. attending picnics, and other Millions of workers are alcelebrations. We will listen ready acting to create good as elected officials and labor jobs and expand the middle leaders speak about the sacri- class. Low-wage workers fices and contributions of our are joining together and deparents and grandparents, manding a living wage and a who organized their unions union to secure the bargainand how they went about im- ing strength they need to improving their lives and the prove their lives. lives of millions of working Today, workers all over Americans. They built the Pennsylvania are choosing middle class of this nation unions as their pathway to the and created the most power- middle class. Seventy-two huful economy in the world. man service employees at PerOn this Labor Day holiContinued on page 3
School Progress Update and Borough Employee Honored
by JANA BOSKEY
At last Thursday’s council meeting the superintendent of the Northampton School District, Joseph Kovalchik, presented a slide show showing the progress of the new middle school currently under construction. There are two phases to the middle school project; the first began in April 2013 with the beginning of construction. Over the course of a year the workers have already made leaps and bounds, with almost the entirety of the base structure completed. They have started putting up the bricks that will decorate the outside of the school. The new middle school will have an “amazing” media room, modern science labs, and
classrooms measuring 850 square feet that total 272,000 square feet in three stories. Along with showing construction progress, Kovalchik went so far as to explain the history of the land with the help of Councilman Ed Pany, who also serves as curator of the Atlas Cement Museum. Pany has recently taken a tour of the new building. The original occupant of the land where the new middle school is being built was the Atlas Portland Cement Company. Atlas Portland was one of the preeminent cement producers of its day, contributing to the Panama Canal, Empire State Building and the Hoover Dam. Pany, whose fa-
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