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Submitted by JARED HAUPT The Bath Area Fish Committee will release trout on April 11 for the annual contest on Saturday and Sunday, April 12w and 13. Mason, eight, and Logan,
six, of Bath had luck on the opening weekend for southeast Pennsylvania along the Monocacy Creek in Bath. Mason caught a 19” rainbow trout, his brother also had luck while out fishing with their dad.
Local Tastefully Simple Group Supports Our Troops Submitted by BRENDA DETWEILER Recently, a local Tastefully Simple group of consultants named “Bountiful Believers” led by Nicole Niosi gathered at the Sands Casino in Bethlehem for a business meeting with a twist. This awesome group of approximately 60 ladies met for their own tasteful needs but in the midst brought individual goodies of their brand names and store bought items that we can send to a local unit deployed
right here from Northampton. They allowed us to speak for a few moments and supplied us in abundance with products we know our troops will appreciate in their care packages. We are very grateful when local groups come together and support our deployed troops in this manner. We try and meet the needs of our deployed troops whether a large or small request. We also work
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Submitted by By Ed Pany Today I am visiting the oldest cemetery in Northampton County, the Horner Cemetery, which is a historic treasure dating back to 1745. It is situated on Route 329, the Northampton-Bath highway, north of God’s Missionary Church in East Allen Township. Horner’s Cemetery Historical Society, headed by Ms. Peggy Spengler-Moser, is heading a drive to restore and maintain the burial site. Ms. Moser was a fine student at Northampton, Moravian, Lehigh, and is a Cedar Crest
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College graduate with a keen interest in our local history. She invited this writer and fellow historian Larry Oberly to visit and tour the grounds. When I taught United States History, the cemetery was a major stop on a historical tour we did for many years. The school district’s 4th grade local history students used to visit, as well. When we arrived at the cemetery we entered the resting place of our county’s first settlers and soldiers who helped build the foundation of our nation. There was a feeling of dignity and serenity
as we viewed the tombstones, a reminder of our cherished past. This column and future columns will tell the stories of these early settlers who rest eternal in Horner’s Cemetery. These early settlers were of Scotch-Irish descent, immigrants to the American colonies in 1728 due to the Irish famines and economical collapse in that country. Most of these first settlers were tenant farmers with no social rank, wealth or political power, who paid increasing taxes by the land owners. Land speculators toured in Ireland and Great Britain described America as a land of fertile soil and unlimited opportunities. This new land was a place Continued on page 9
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