Easton shooting puts 2 in hospitals

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OUT CHANNELS
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Price of
Peace
Candle
rising
EXHIBITING BODIES OF ART
Easton
shooting
puts 2 in
hospitals
CENTRE SQUARE HOLIDAY
FEATURE in need of an
expensive upgrade.
BY ZACH LINDSEY
The Express-Times
EASTON | The city’s Peace
Candle could only have about
two or three years left in it if volunteers don’t find nearly
$30,000 to upgrade and repair
the more than 20-year-old
structure.
The candle needs new angle
iron up to modern standards,
marine plywood and electrical
wiring, Mayor Sal Panto Jr. said
at a Wednesday city council
meeting.
BURNING
CASH
In 1986, the
candle cost
$3,600 to erect
and dismantle.
Now, it’s nearly
$10,000 a year.
INVESTIGATION IN WEST WARD CONTINUES into
the night. Extent of victims’ injuries not disclosed.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
EXPRESS-TIMES PHOTOS | MATT SMITH
EASTON | Two people were
Some visitors to the
Skindustry Tattoo Expo
on Sunday in Upper
Macungie Township got
inked up by area tattoo
artists, including Josh
Bodwell, above, Richie
Brooks, right, and Aaron
Zimmerman. See more
photos and video at
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/lehigh-county.
wounded in a shooting Sunday night in the West Ward,
police said.
Lt. Matthew Gerould did
not identify the victims but
said they were at different
hospitals. He would not detail the extent of their injuries.
Shots were reported fired
about 9:20 p.m. in the 1100
block of Spruce Street, according to Gerould. The
block was closed as the investigation continued.
Courtney Van Brackle,
who lives on the block, said
Many residents of Easton
may not even think about the
Peace Candle until the temperature drops in November, but
maintenance and repairs to the
holiday symbol go on behind
the scenes year-round.
In the past, the Easton Holiday Committee has been responsible for raising the money
to erect the candle, take it
down, take care of the trees that
surround the candle and also
she heard a shot outside
while she was upstairs in her
bedroom. When she went to
the window, she said, she
heard four or five more shots
and saw a man running away
east toward 11th Street.
Van Brackle said she also
saw a red Saturn racing away
in the opposite way.
Emergency radio reports
after the shooting indicated
police were looking for the
Saturn and another vehicle,
which was later found at Easton Hospital in Wilson Borough.
See photo, Page A2, and a gallery
at lehighvalleylive.com/easton.
SOMETHING FISHY HERE
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Nonprofit’s ownership dispute continues
STATE RULES ON P’BURG RIVERVIEW ORGANIZATION,
but factions still warring with each other.
BY DAVID FOSTER
The Express-Times
PHILLIPSBURG | Would the
real Phillipsburg Riverview
Organization members please
stand up?
After a nearly two-year battle to determine the legitimate
leaders of the town’s nonprofit
organization, the state Division
of Consumer Affairs has ruled
in favor of the original members.
The legitimate PRO members — Chairman Reggie Regrut, Vice Chairman Barry
Glassman and board member
Michael J. King — received a
confirmation letter March 13
from Lawrence J. Biondo, a
chief investigator in the Charities Investigation Unit.
The letter states Biondo reviewed documents and concluded the organization’s regis| PLEASE SEE GROUP, A2
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BANG ON THE
DRUM FOR HOURS
Rusted Root drummer Jim
Donovan will explore the
therapeutic side of percussion
with a drum and chant energy
workshop April 13 at Emmaus
Yoga.
EXPRESS-TIMES PHOTO | LISA MASSEY
Matthew Day, 8, peers into an aquarium Saturday
during an open house at the Pequest Trout Hatchery
in Oxford Township. See more at
lehighvalleylive.com/photos.
Borough’s inns mark
crossroads of history
BY PAMELA SROKA-HOLZMANN
The Express-Times
NAZARETH | When traveling
into the borough, visitors will
see signs boasting “Colonial
Hospitality since 1740.”
Historian Susan Dreydoppel describes the Colonial era
— then with just a single gray
cottage — as a humble beginning for an area that would go
on to construct about 25 inns
and hotels by 1914.
“The inns were known for
ROOM AT THE INN
Nazareth’s largest and
most popular inn was the
five-story Nazareth Inn at
75 Belvidere St. It was
built in 1771 and gave
parents a place to stay
while visiting their sons
at the Nazareth Hall
Boarding School.
serving visitors when they
came into town. Not everyone
in that day had a guestroom,”
Dreydoppel said. “Just the fact
that there used to be so many
inns and hotels in Nazareth is
significant. And the fact that
many of the buildings have
been transformed today into
other businesses and merchants have made a go of it
again is significant.”
Dreydoppel penned “The
Inns of Nazareth,” a keepsake
booklet published in 1993. She
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has only been in Arizona for 3½ months, but they have been the
best weeks of his life. Find out how the 2009 West Virginia University
graduate landed at the University of Arizona in an online feature
from Tom Hinkel at lehighvalleylive.com/sports.