Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Sal Panto easily fends off challenge from Mike Krill to win another term as Easton's mayor.
Easton voters have once again chosen Sal Panto to be their mayor. Panto, a Democrat who served two terms as mayor in the 1980s before returning to office in 2007, easily won re-election Tuesday, defeating challenger Mike Krill with nearly 80 percent percent of the vote. With 100 percent of the city precincts reporting, Krill had 656 votes to Panto's 2,521, according to unofficial county results. Speaking at campaign headquarters in downtown Easton, Panto said that perhaps the hardest battle of this election was the low turnout in the city. "We knew we had the votes," he told supporters. "We didn't have the voters." In the end, only about 2,900 people voted, the mayor said. By 11 p.m., with all the numbers in, the total figure was actually …
Monday, November 7, 2011
Voters in Easton will decide tomorrow whether to re-elect Mayor Sal Panto or choose challenger Mike Krill.
You have a choice to make tomorrow, Easton voters. Well, actually, there's a few different choices you'll have to make in the voting booth. Here's what's on the ballot tomorrow: Mayor's Race The city's big race this time out is for mayor, with incumbent Sal Panto going up against challenger Mike Krill. Krill, a Republican and city firefighter, has campaigned on the idea that Panto -- and previous mayors -- have focused too much attention on Easton's Downtown and not enough on its other neighborhoods. "It's simply summed up in two words—residents first. Not tourists, not Lafayette College, but residents,” Krill said in a debate with Panto last month. "They've put up with a lot, and it's time to put them first...Leadership needs to seek out …
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Easton Mayoral incumbent Sal Panto and challenger Mike Krill squared off on the issues at the State Theatre Tuesday evening.
Mayoral incumbent Sal Panto and challenger Mike Krill seem to agree on one thing: this election, it's all about Easton's neighborhoods and residents. The two candidates took to the State Theatre stage Tuesday evening, answering questions from a panel consisting of Joe Owens, Jim Flagg and Edward Sieger of the Express-Times, then asking and answering questions from each other, concluding with a closing statement at the end. Questioned on the possible Neighborhood Improvement District, Panto said he would not support a 5 mill fee for property owners in the district as presented in the revised proposal, nor would he be inclined to support a 1 mill increase in city property taxes to support the city's Main Street and Ambassadors' programs, an …
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Capital reserves should be beefed up before other expenditures, mayoral challenger Mike Krill said.
It's a mistake for Easton to fund the purchase of a parking lot on Northampton Street to potentially enhance the redevelopment value of two long-vacant properties across the street, Easton Mayoral candidate Mike Krill said at a press conference Tuesday. Standing in front of 118 and 120 Northampton Street, Krill said the city's focus should be on attracting and keeping residents, while curbing spending. He added the city should aim to raise its cash reserves, instead of spending taxpayers' money on commercial redevelopment projects whose return is not guaranteed. Krill, a Republican, is hoping to unseat Mayor Sal Panto in the November election. He's made the focus on residential neighborhoods the centerpiece of his campaign, arguing that …
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Mayor hopes "infill" construction will get more people living in Easton.
After years of refurbishing blighted properties in the South Side and West Ward, Easton wants to get into the home-building business. Mayor Sal Panto said Wednesday that the city hopes to begin an infill construction program, turning vacant lots into homes and "take care of a missing tooth on a block...or in some cases, missing teeth." The mayor was speaking at a news conference at 225 Ferry Street, the former home of King Cleaners that's now vacant and looking for a new tenant. He used the occasion to tout a variety of things: growth in the downtown and the city's system of redeveloping blighted properties. As for the infill program, the mayor says the goal is to turn empty lots into homes, and resell them. Panto said he hopes to push the…
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Tom Coombe
12:49 pm on Thursday, January 12, 2012
Actually, I think the home rule charter prevents him from running again. However, given all the things the mayor has to deal with over the next four years, I don't see any circumstances where installing red light cameras would become a major campaign issue. more ›