September 2020 City of Easton Municipal E-newsletter

September 2020

City of Easton Municipal Enewsletter

Free concert in Centre Square this Saturday night!

This coming Saturday night 9/26 at 7 pm, the Mayor's Office of Special Events presents "Broadway Comes Home," a free concert in Centre Square featuring Easton-native and Broadway star Dee Roscioli. The concert also features singer/songwriter Ben Clark.

Bring a chair or blanket to sit on. Or make a dinner reservation downtown to listen to the concert while you dine al fresco. They will be incorporating pop music, a few of Ben's originals, and some songs from the Broadway shows she's done. It's gonna be a rockin’ pop hits set list!

Note: No one will be allowed to enter Centre Square without a mask. Concert goers must practice social distancing. Chairs must be placed 6 feet apart from other attendees, unless sitting in family groups. Rain date is Sunday 9/27.

The 9/30 Census deadline will be here soon!

There is just over one week left to complete the Census and we still need every Eastonian to be counted. If you've already completed the Census, then ask your friends or family members if they have done it yet. If they haven't, please encourage them to do it by the Wed. 9/30 deadline. Because Easton, You Count!

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City of Easton Trick or Treat is a GO!

The 2020 Easton-Phillipsburg Halloween Parade is cancelled due to the pandemic and PA Department of Health guidelines on limiting large gatherings. However, City of Easton Trick or Treat is still ON AS SCHEDULED! So get those costumes ready, and plan to wear a face mask under your Halloween mask and practice social distancing as you go from house to house.

Community Bike Works to bring program for children to Easton in 2021

Community Bike Works, an Allentown-based youth organization, has announced plans to expand its youth bike mentoring programs with a location in Easton’s West Ward.

Greater Easton Development Partnership is planning to purchase a building in the West Ward that could provide some support space for its Easton Ambassadors and Easton Garden Works programs, as well as Community Bike Works.

Community Bike Works is celebrating 25 years of Earn a Bike in 2020-21. Since Community Bike Works started in 1995, more than 5,500 students have participated in the Earn a Bike program.

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Where on the city's web site do I find it?!

We want to help you find the city info that you need on our web site. So each month we are highlighting a different item that you might be looking for. This month it is forms and documents for the various city departments, such as zoning applications, moving permits, special event applications, and more. See the graphic above for instructions.

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Easton Pocket Parks Project

We still need more Eastonians to take the Easton Pocket Parks survey. We want YOUR input on what you want to see in each of them.

How about playground equipment? Maybe a community garden? Or what about outdoor movie nights?

Your input will go into our master plan for seven pocket parks in the city's West Ward and South Side neighborhoods.

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City of Easton Forester discusses the city's treatment of recently planted trees for spotted lantern flies

Between now and December, spotted lanternflies will begin producing egg sacks on tree trunks and branches with smooth bark, and on other smooth surfaces like outdoor furniture and equipment.

City of Easton Forester Rob Christopher explains how the city is treating street trees that it planted in the last three years for spotted lantern flies.

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