Easton's Pools Reopen Saturday

Download an application for Easton's Heil and Eddyside pools here.

It doesn't feel like swimming weather at the moment, but Easton's two pools—at Eddyside Park heading north Route 611 and Heil Park on the South Side—will reopen on Saturday. If you want to go swimming this summer, we've included an application form you can fill out for a pool membership. The pools will be open on weekends only from Saturday until June 16, before switching to regular hours on Tuesday, June 18. The pools are open from noon until 7 p.m. Daily admission is $5 for adults who live in the 18042 zip code, and $3 for kids. For non residents, it's $7 for adults and $5 for kids. Read the pool handbook for more information.

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See New Crayola Attractions This Weekend

Easton's Crayola Experience reopens after three months of renovation, plus other things to do this weekend in Easton.

It was rainy and grey Friday in Easton, and Saturday's forecast doesn't promise to be much better. If you want to get some color in your life, you might want to stop by the Crayola Experinece, which reopened Friday following a three-month renovation. The building not only has a new look, but new attractions as well. Friday was a busy day, with school groups and young families packing the downtown Easton tourist destination. Also happening this weekend:

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Sandy Hook Police Chief to Speak at Lafayette

Officials from Newtown, Conn. will discuss the Sandy Hook shooting at a forum at Lafayette College next week.

How does a town recover when it's the scene of a horrific mass shooting? Michael Kehoe, chief of police in Newtown, Conn., and E. Patricia Llodra, the town's first selectman, with try to answer that question next Wednesday at Easton's Lafayette College. Both Kehoe and Llorda were in office last December when a shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School killed 20 children and six adults. It was the second deadliest mass shooting in American history. Their presentation is called "Rebuilding in the Aftermath of the Sandy Hook Tragedy," and is part of Lafayette's Annual Forum on Local Government. The free presentation will be held at 1 p.m. in room 104 of the college's Kirby Hall of Civil Rights. It is open to the public.

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A 'C'mon, Man!' For Toyota

Looking for something other than a Camry from one of the world's largest automakers.

My car’s rear seats don’t fold down. They did on my previous car, which was a coupe version of my current car, but my car’s first owner didn’t pony up the money for the cold-weather package … so now I’m stuck with a small trunk and no headlamp washers.  First world problems, I know. And because my seats don’t fold down, whenever I want to go skiing, or surfing, or just carry a long stick in my vehicle, I’ve got to run to my mother. She drives a 2001 Toyota RAV4. It’s cavernous, can plow through 2 feet of snow with its gas-guzzling, always-on 4-wheel drive system and 70-series tires, and is probably the slowest vehicle I’ve ever driven. I’m always welcome to drive it when I need to take a tortuous trip to Ikea and I love it.  But, being a …

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Mischa Arnosky

6:01 pm on Friday, May 24, 2013

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Lehigh Valley News Roundup

Fatal Shooting, Alleged $854K Embezzlement Top Lehigh Valley News

'Restaurant Impossible ' and 'Most Wanted' fugitive's guilty plea in murder case are also among the week's top stories.

Alleged Embezzlers Gambled Township's Money, Police Say: Former South Whitehall utility supervisor Nancy A. Tonkin and her husband, a former township police officer, are charged with embezzling $854,497 from township coffers over more than a decade, the Lehigh County District Attorney says. Man Killed Self as Police Tried to Serve Warrant: A Nazareth man killed himself as police were approaching him with a warrant, police said. Court documents showed he made death threats against his baby's mother. Fire Mars "Restaurant Impossible" Filming: Food Network Chef Robert Irvine, who is filming a 'Restaurant Impossible' episode at Fountain Hill's Benner Street Restaurant & Bar, tweeted about the incident. KidsPeace Declares Bankruptcy, Owes $240 …

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Drones Protest by Lehigh Valley Peace Activists Saturday

Peace activists from the Lehigh Valley will join a regional drone war protest in Montgomery County on Saturday.

Lehigh Valley peace activists will travel Saturday to a drone protest at the northern end of Easton Road in front of the Horsham Air Guard Station. The protest will be held from noon to 2 p.m. The demonstration will include large banners and signs decrying plans to establish the drone command center in Horsham. If established, the center would feature computer “drone pilots” who would, by remote-control, launch drone missile strikes against targets and people thousands of miles away.  The protest will include music, the reading of the names of U.S. drone strike victims in Pakistan and their stories; bell-tolling, chanting, and a 10-foot-long drone replica that will stand near the Horsham Air Guard Station identification logo.    According …

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Zero Tolerance for Seat Belt Violations Over Memorial Day Weekend

Drivers can expect roving patrols, safety checkpoints and special attention to seat belt compliance over Memorial Day Weekend.

PennDOT will partner with more than 600 law enforcement agencies and the Pennsylvania State Police to participate in a national “Click It or Ticket” seat-belt enforcement effort through June 9. The effort will focus largely on nighttime enforcement, using traffic safety checkpoints and roving patrols. Police will also use Traffic Enforcement Zones, which combine roving patrol and checkpoint tactics on roadways with high numbers of unbuckled crashes. According to PennDOT data, 503 people died last year in unbelted crashes, a decrease from 509 such fatalities in 2011. The total number of crashes in which people were not wearing seat belts also decreased to 15,528, compared with 16,298 in 2011. The majority of enforcement will occur at night…

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Ron Beitler

3:06 pm on Friday, May 24, 2013

Most states have seatbelt laws because feds threatened to pull highway funding if they didn't fall in line. Same reason we have uniform 21 drinking laws. Last holdouts Jersey and Louisiana caved in cause of pressure to lose federal highway funds.   more ›

Burglar Swiped Another Man's ID, Police Say

Newark resident Peter Murphy allegedly claimed he was Easton man, faces new charges.

On Sunday, Easton police filed burglary charges against Terique Grayman after a South Side family found him in their kitchen. The only problem was that the burglar's real name wasn't Terique Grayman. City police said Wednesday that they'd filed charges against a man they now know as Peter Murphy, whom they say had Grayman's driver's license and "mirrored the picture and physical traits." Charges in Grayman's name have been withdrawn. Police say Murphy, 19, of Newark took a television worth $319, cash and loose change totaling $7.19 and some food items from a home on the 300 block of Palmer Street early Sunday. He was caught a few blocks away and taken into custody, where he apparently assumed Grayman's identity. Murphy had been charged …

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