Memories Saved for Alzheimer's Patients at Easton Home

'Memory Lane' program helps Easton Home residents recall pleasant memories, engage with their families.

Inside the Easton Home, there's a kitchen unlike anywhere in Easton, filled with a monitor top refrigerator, Ovaltine cans, and tins of spices you won't find at Giant. In fact, you probably wouldn't find a kitchen like this anywhere, at least not without a time machine. But that's exactly what the staff at the Easton Home want it to be: a window into the past for residents suffering from Alzheimer's or dementia. Of the home's 53 residents, 20 live in its memory support unit for residents with Alzheimers' and other forms of dementia, said Paul Cercone, the home's administrator. Another third of The Easton Home's population have been diagnosed with some type of dementia. With that in mind, the Easton Home has established its Memory Lane …

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Week In Review

Train Death, Eddie G Case Top Local News

Other major stories this week include the arrest of a man in a deadly home invasion.

Easton police say a man arrested after a stand-off on the South Side Thursday could have answers into a two-week old homicide in the city. Lt. Matthew Gerould said police have been looking for Miguel Rodriguez to talk to him in connection with the shooting death of Damien Robinson on Feb. 9 at Eddie G's Bar. Rodriguez was taken into custody late Thursday following a raid at 516 Glendon Ave.  Wilson teen Bradley Roth, 19, died after being hit by a Norfolk-Southern Train near Island Park Road along the Lehigh River in Glendon, according to state police at the Belfast barracks. His death was ruled a suicide by the Northampton County Coroner, according to a Lehigh Valley Live report. Roth graduated from Wilson High School and worked at Pizza …

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Easton Home Expansion Too Big, Zoners Say

Zoning Hearing Board denies plan to build four-story senior living facility in the West Ward.

The Easton Home's plan to expand in the West Ward has hit a road block. The city Zoning Hearing Board on Monday denied a request by the senior citizen center to put up a four-story residential building at its existing property on Northampton Street. The Easton Home—owned by Presbyterian Senior Living—had proposed a 52-unit facility for people 62 and over. Rodney Fenstermacher, director of construction for the project, said these would be residents able to live on their own yet who would still be close enough to access the Easton Home's healthcare services if needed. The building before the board Monday was a scaled-back version of the project the Easton Home announced last year, which featured 104 units. But even this version is "out of …

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Easton Home Plans 104-Unit Expansion

The Easton Home, a West Ward senior complex, will add new units for low income residents.

A West Ward senior citizen center plans to add 104 new units in two new buildings for low-to-middle income residents, officials said Thursday. The Easton Home, on the 1000 block of Northampton St., has purchased property to the east and west of its current location, where it will construct the new apartments in two phases over the next few years. The first phase will include 49 units, the second will have 55, all one and two bedroom apartments on four floors. To qualify, residents would need to earn 60 percent or less than the city's median income. There are currently 54 units in the building, which is owned by the Presbyterian Senior Living company.  In all, the project would bring 150 new residents to the city, most of them mobile, …

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