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Today's riddle: What has a neck but no head? 🤔 (Answer below!)
1. Shapiro Administration Invests Nearly $1.5 Million to Help Local Governments Plan for Financial Stability (pa.gov) — Northampton County is awarding $200,000 to the City of Easton to upgrade financial software and technology, aiming to improve how the city manages data, reporting, and day-to-day operations. The funding is part of a broader Shapiro Administration program supporting financially stressed municipalities statewide.
2. NEWS POST: First Day of School (crimewatch.net) — Easton Police and the Easton School District are urging drivers to slow down and watch for children as local schools reopen on September 1. Residents are reminded to be especially careful around crosswalks and to always stop for school buses with flashing signals so students can get to and from school safely.
3. New lighting installation illuminates Quad year-round (lafayettestudentnews.com) — Lafayette College has installed 148 new lighted paving stones on the Quad after students and faculty raised concerns about safety in dark campus areas. A campus committee, including student advocates, will keep meeting this year to identify more spots—on campus and along Cattell Street—where lighting in Easton should be improved.
4. Lafayette College student envisions brighter future in debut children's book (lafayettestudentnews.com) — A Lafayette College student has released her first children's book, imagining a hopeful, eco-friendly future city and teaming up with a campus custodian as illustrator. She's already donated copies locally and hopes to place the book in Easton Public Library and the Lafayette College Store so more Easton-area kids can discover it.
5. Recent Lafayette alum convicted of criminal mischief, disorderly conduct for throwing coffee at Israeli flag (lafayettestudentnews.com) — A recent Lafayette College graduate was found guilty of summary counts of criminal mischief and disorderly conduct after throwing coffee on an Israeli flag during a spring campus event, in a case heard by a district justice in Easton. The incident, which followed a brief political discussion, led to fines and renewed attention to how the college handles conflicts involving Jewish students.
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