November 27, 2019

COVER STORY-LINNY AWARDS

Honoring community giving

ArtsQuest’s fourth annual Linny Awards program got off to a rousing start with the announcement that in 2019, the ArtsQuest Foundation received a $5 million anonymous gift, the largest in the nonprofit’s history. The announcement was made by foundation CEO Jane George, who added that there were also two anonymous $1 million donations to the endowment. Photo: Arts Educator of the Year Amy Potlock is presented with her Linny Award by State Rep. Steve Samuelson. Beall Fowler is also on hand to congratulate Potlock.

By Carole Gorney

 

SPORTS

Hawks to host basketball tournament

Bethlehem Catholic’s boys’ basketball program has partnered with the Lehigh County Special Olympics to host a tournament at Bethlehem Catholic on Dec. 20 and 21. The tournament will feature three other Catholic schools from Baltimore and Washington, D.C., as the likes of John Carroll, Bishop Ireton and St. John’s Catholic Prep make the trek to the Lehigh Valley. For Hawks head coach Scott McClary, the event is one that he’s always wanted to organize, since his time working with the Lehigh County Special Olympics.

By Peter Car

 

FOCUS

Once in a lifetime

Douglas Wiltraut has received the Robert Sanstrom Prize, a Gold Medal, and $5,000, as an honorarium, for his painting, “Fading Away” (2018, egg tempera on panel, 22 in. x 33 in.) at the 65th Annual Exhibition of the National Society of Painters in Casein & Acrylic (NSPCA) held at the Salmagundi Club, New York City. The organization was founded in the 1950s and the society’s top prize, named for Robert Sanstrom, can only be received once in an artist’s lifetime. Sanstrom was an artist and NSPCA associate membership chairman who left his $1.2-million estate to the society as a legacy gift.

By Ed Courrier

 

OTHER STORIES

Bethlehem (BASD): Boardwill seek more revenue

Bethlehem: (BASD): Three elementary schools inch towards repair or replacement

Bethlehem: Rose Garden part of Boscola’s park grants

Bethlehem: Gary Martell honored for service to community

Bethlehem: Off to the races Oktoberfest style

Bethlehem (Planners): Second Ave. Armory project is official

Bethlehem: 28^th Super Day fundraiser

Freemansburg: Winter emergency plans outlines

Lehigh Valley: Diamond and Silk hosts pro-life banquet

Saucon Valley (SVSB): Parents, residents address bullying

St. Anne: Astronaut delivers big picture

St. Anne: Principal recognized for school growth

Student profile: Mercedes Lobb, LV CHarter Arts

High school news report: LV Charter Arts

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November 13, 2019

COVER STORY-TUCKER’S TOY RUN

Great ride, great cause

Bikers came from as far away as West Virginia, New Jersey and New York to participate. The ninth annual Tucker’s Toy Run was held Nov. 2, as sunny weather encouraged over 700 bikers to make the ride from Northampton to St. Luke’s University Hospital’s Fountain Hill campus to deliver well over a thousand toys for pediatric patients throughout the hospital’s system.  “The success we have is because of all of you,” said organizer Rick Nauman. The event is run through the Lehigh Valley Community Benefit organization and honors the memory of Tucker Stuart, who died in a motorcycle crash in 2011. Photo by Scott M. Nagy: Bikers gather on the grounds of Tri-Boro Sportsmen Club in Northampton for the start of Tucker’s Toy Run Nov. 2.

By Dana Grubb

 

VOTING ISSUE

Murphy’s Law affect Northampton Co. election

Provisions of the Elections Code are strictly followed in every Pennsylvania election. Unfortunately for Northampton County elections officials, another law raised its ugly head in the Nov. 5 municipal election. Murphy’s Law, the epigram that anything that can go wrong will go wrong, was in full force during the county’s rollout of a brand new voting system called The Express Vote XL. In addition to hypersensitive screens, the touch screens improperly and computed results in the judicial races. After the polls closed, the printed results from the flash drives inside each machine had candidate Democrat Abe Kassis behind Republican Vic Scomillio with less than 100 votes. The voter-verifiable paper ballots, however, say he actually won one of the two judgeships decided. This vote is currently being canvassed, which is a close re-examination of the results in every precinct. Once results are certified, a legal challenge is possible. Republicans have already obtained a court order impounding all voting machines and ballots. Photo: Northampton County Executive Lamont McClure and the Express Vote XL voting machine.

By Bernie O’Hare

 

SPORTS

Hawks fall to Pottsville

Bethlehem Catholic head football coach Joe Heinrich knew it was time to break his team’s recent skid over the past month, one in which the Golden Hawks had dropped three of their last four games. A rematch with Pottsville in the District 11 Class 4A semifinal loomed as possible answer. The Golden Hawks thoroughly defeated the Crimson Tide the past two seasons in the same game. Unfortunately for Becahi, it didn’t work.  The Golden Hawks (7-5) couldn’t get on track all afternoon, and the Crimson Tide did just enough to come away with an 18-13 victory in Pottsville last Saturday. Pottsville will meet Allentown Central Catholic in the final Saturday night at Northern Lehigh.

By Jeff Moeller

 

FOCUS

‘Whose Line’ returns to the State

 “Whose Line Is It Anyway?,” starring Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood, returns at 8 p.m. Nov. 16 to the State Theatre Center for the Arts, Easton. In the comedy show, part of their “Scared Scriptless” tour, Mochrie and Sherwood combine audience participation and improvisation. In a recent interview, Sherwood combines interviewer participation and improvisation.

By Camille Capriglione

 

OTHER STORIES

Bethlehem: Panel explores small-city food challenges

Bethlehem: Treasuring a streetscape

Bethlehem: Mayor outlines $80MK 2020 budget

Bethlehem: Muscle cars, motorcycles at Atria car show

Bethlehem: ‘A Christmas City Christmas’ comes to Moravian Book Shop

Bethlehem: ‘Day of the
Dead’ comes alive at BAPL

Bethlehem Township: Developer sues over Green Pond fees
Lehigh County: Commissioners OK tax raise

Northampton County: State gives $342K for $2.9M voting system

Student profiles – Neha Skandan, Moravian Academy

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November 6, 2019

COVER STORY-HOTEL BETHLEHEM

97 and still going strong

Several hundred well-wishers crowded into the Hotel Bethlehem Oct. 6 to help the landmark celebrate its 97th birthday and its recent selection as the third best historic hotel in the country by readers of USA Today. The birthday bash included free food and hors d’oeuvres, mounds of cupcakes, tours, musical entertainment and presentations on the history of the hotel.   Guests were greeted by Hospitality Girls in white knee-high boots, a flashback to 1968, when the then-new general manager hired the young women as greeters. Photo: Ozzie Morales of Bethlehem has been a waiter for 25 years, but for only one year at the Hotel Bethlehem.  Dressed in colonial garb, he offers birthday bash celebrants free hors d’oeuvres during the event.

By Carole Gorney

 

SPORTS

Freedom girls win first district title

Freedom forward Katie Flynn held on to the District XI girls’ soccer championship trophy like it was gold, but the gold was hanging around her neck, placed there by Coach Bob Eaton after the Patriots defeated Nazareth, 3-1, in the Class 4A final on Saturday night at Emmaus High School. “It means a lot and we just brought it all together. It’s post season, we’re a whole new team, and we’ve been on a streak,” Flynn said. “I told them at halftime this is not over. We have to go out and bring it 10 times harder than we played the first half.” The Patriots took a 2-0 lead in the first half on goals scored by Haley Gschrey at 31:39 and 20:15.

By Katie McDonald

 

FOCUS

Gene London’s Hollywood

The exhibit is “Designing Hollywood.” It’s really Gene London’s Hollywood. The exhibit, subtitled “Golden Age Costumes from the Gene London Cinema Collection,” through Dec. 22, Allentown Art Museum, includes 60 vintage costumes from the Golden Age of Hollywood movies, including those worn by Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Garland, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Katharine Hepburn, Charlton Heston, James Cagney and many more.

By Paul Willistein

 

OTHER STORIES

Bethlehem: Property appeals bill a worry for BASD

Bethlehem: City hosts state Latino convention

Bethlehem: Firefighters remembered, honored

Bethlehem: Parking Authority seeks signage help from HARB

Bethlehem: Council allows a contested fence

Bethlehem: 4^th St. CBD store gets new signage

Bethlehem: Zonera approve Van Buren townhouses

Bethlehem: Religions unite, learn in Bethlehem

Bethlehem: NCC hosts addiction seminar

Bethlehem: Trick or Treat in the city

Fountain Hill: Council learns about gerrymandering

Northampton County: County gets $142K prevention grant

Saucon Valley: Halloween special at high school

Saucon Valley, Board, administration laud students

Student profile – Kiera Sager, Saucon Valley HS

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