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NOVEMBER 16-22, 2017
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Looking by Back Ed Pany Bath 1947
Originally published in 2004 I’m paging through Mrs. Grace Bonser’s 1947 welcome home celebration booklet honoring Bath’s World War II veterans, wondering if any of these businesses are still alive and well in the Bath area. I know some of our readers will remember them. First National Bank of Bath. It sure was nice to have a bank with a community label. District Council No. 1 United Cement, Lime and Gypsum Workers International Union, A.F.L. They had some big meetings over at the Fireman’s Auditorium. They represented the workers at the Keystone Cement Co. and the other plants in the Valley. Victor Thomas over Nazareth way was a vice president of the union and that’s the union where Mr. Jon Wolfel of the present Industrial Chemical Workers Union earned his spurs. Jon is a friend and former student of this writer at Northampton High School and I am very proud of him. He’s doing a great job for the members. The Home News is alive and
well. Bill Halbfoerster was the publisher and the editor was Reginald Helfferich. The publisher was the father of the present “ye old editor.” George H. Rehrig Dodge and Plymouth dealer. Carl Rehrig has plenty of memories of the old garage. There was Kathryn’s Beauty Shoppe on Chestnut Street, P.J. Roarty’s Economy Store on the Square, Hugo & Reidy Farm Machinery, and Bath Dress Co. where Grace Bonser got her first job. Glad to see there is a Bath Hotel. In 1947 they advertised the “first television in Bath.” The Slate Exchange has a new name. In 1947 it was owned by Steve Zakos. Remember Hugo’s Barbecue stand, Kunkle’s John Deere Sales & Service, Keppel’s Pioneer Food Stores, Ebner’s Cut Rate Store, Leiby’s General Insurance, N.C. Oplinger potatoes, and Fehnel’s Feed and Grain Service? Martin Smith Garage, Cast Iron Mfg. Co., Fairmont’s Fountain Service (Doc & Elsie), Ethel’s Beauty Shop, Italian Cheese Mfg. Co., Fehnel’s. Let’s not forget Frank Wunderler’s “Better Store.”
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Election results for Northampton County Municipalities
By JUSTIN SWEITZER With Election Day having come and gone on Tuesday, Nov. 7, Northampton County voters made numerous decisions on who should run various county offices and municipal positions. Positions up for election included borough council seats, township supervisors, school directors, magisterial judges, tax collectors, mayors and more. The following results are for various local government positions regularly covered by The Home News, and are in no way a comprehensive list of all the election results throughout Northampton County. A full list of unofficial results can be found on the county’s website at northamptoncounty.org. In Allen Township, Republicans Bruce Frack and Gerald Montanari emerged victorious for the township’s board of supervisors, with Frack and Montanari earning over 32 and 35 percent of the vote, respectively. In the Borough of Bath, Mayor Fiorella Reginelli-Mirabito ran unopposed and was re-elected with 211 votes that accounted for over 98 percent of all votes. Bath Borough Council saw Democrats Michele Ehrgott and Carol Bear-Heckman get re-elected, and Anthony Kovalovsky also got elected to the council. In East Allen Township, Republicans Georgiann Hunsicker and Don Heiney were elected with over 26 percent and 18 percent of the vote, respectively. In Lehigh Township, Democrats Cindy Miller and Michael Jones were each elected to six-year terms, both with over 49 percent of the vote. Republican Phillip Gogel was elected to a four-year term as su-
pervisor in Lehigh Township with over 63 percent of the vote in his respective election. In Moore Township, Republican David Shaffer was elected township supervisor over Democrat Lois Kerbacher. Shaffer won with 69 percent of the votes in that election. In the Borough of Nazareth, Democrat and current member of borough council Lance Colondo was elected mayor with 540 votes, receiving 56 percent of the vote in the borough’s mayoral election. Democrat Christopher Crook was elected to represent the borough’s first ward for a four-year term. Democrat and current council member Jessica Teel was re-elected to serve the borough’s second ward with 98 percent of the vote in her respective election, while another fellow member of council, Charles Donello, was re-elected to serve the borough’s third ward. Carl Strye, the former Nazareth mayor who resigned from office in September 2016 after facing legal charges, was elected to council to serve the borough’s third ward for a four-year term. In Northampton Borough, Mayor Thomas Reenock was reelected nearly unanimously, with over 99 percent of the vote. Republican Councilman Tony Pristash was also re-elected to serve on borough council with 217 votes, defeating Democrat Kathryn Novogratz who secured 118 votes. Pristash’s fellow council member Robert McHale was also re-elected with over 99 percent of the vote in his respective election. Additionally, Democrat and current Council President Anthony Lopsonzski Jr. was re-elected to represent the borough’s fourth ward.
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