Found this near corner of West Center and Wood Streets, Nazareth, Pa.*Saturday, December 31, 2011
Stuff I Found on the Ground: Vampire Blood
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Monday, December 5, 2011
Christmas Spirits in Bethlehem
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Monday, October 24, 2011
Hauntings of Whitefield House
As a lead-up to Halloween, the Express-Times included an article teasing ghost stories of The Whitefield House in Nazareth.The spookiest tale comes from Kelly Givens, business manager at the Whitefield House, who is the only person to have actually seen a ghost.
Givens said that about two years ago she was alone at the house during the afternoon and walked up the stairs into the museum and passed a woman who she initially thought was a visitor. Then she realized the woman was dressed as a Moravian nurse of the period from when the children were at the nursery.
The Whitefield House Museum, 214 East Center St., is open to the public 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday through Saturday. The cost is $5 for adults and $3 for students and children to visit. For information, call 610-759-5070.
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Monday, July 4, 2011
Kazoo Parade 2011
A highlight of this year's event was the grand marshal Abbe Graber, of Saugerties, N.Y. Graber, a professional kazoo player and kazoo craftsman, was invited to the borough by the Nazareth Area Chamber of Commerce to serve as grand marshal of the parade.
Anyhoo, here is a video of the parade rounding the corner onto Main Street.
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Saturday, July 2, 2011
Mysterious Twine Plagues Nazareth
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Saturday, May 14, 2011
2011 Nazareth Adult Soapbox Derby
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Monday, April 25, 2011
Mushroom Man Tasered
Some mushrooms make you big, some make you shoot fireballs. The green ones even give you a 1UP. Apparently some also make you naked. As the Morning Call and Express Times report: A naked Upper Nazareth man on a bad hallucinogenic mushroom trip is accused of assaulting a police officer and an emergency medical worker who had come to help Sunday after he threw himself down the stairs of a home in Palmer Township.
"It started as a medical call," said Palmer detective Sgt. Timothy Ruoff. "It went bad from there."
Garrison L. Goodman, 31, of Upper Nazareth Township had taken "magic mushrooms" at 1202 Dunkle St. when he attempted to "dive or fly" down the steps from the second to the first floor, Ruoff said. Although Goodman was eating the mushrooms, Ruoff said, a bottle of mushroom juice was also recovered from the house. Goodman was visiting a friend at the time.
Brian Flavelle of Suburban Emergency Medical Services arrived about 1:25 a.m. to assist Goodman, who was suffering from a cut to his head and broken collarbone, Ruoff said.
Goodman was naked in the front yard and attacked Flavelle, Ruoff said, punching him several times in the head.
When Wilson policeman Marc Crisafulli also arrived, he was punched a number of times in the head by Goodman as well, Ruoff said.
The melee ended when Crisafulli shocked Goodman with a Taser and arrested him, Ruoff said.
Goodman was treated for his injuries at Easton Hospital, then arraigned by District Judge David Tidd and sent to Northampton County Prison under $50,000 bail.
Goodman faces charges that include aggravated assault, simple assault, reckless endangerment and possession of a controlled substance.
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Nazareth Historical Treasures
The Express Times has a new feature called Historical Treasures that spotlights local artifacts found in local museums. It appears every Sunday in the Connect section of the The Express-Times. There are several cool Nazareth landmarks that have been highlighted thus far, the most recent being the Indian Tower. Here are links to the Nazareth pieces:| Reactions: |
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
2010 Pumpkin Carving Contest Bust

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Monday, October 18, 2010
2010 Nazareth Halloween Parade
2010 Results:
BEST APPERARING INDIVIDUAL:
1ST, “LITTLE BOO PEEP” JoAnne Vanatta From Nazareth
2nd, “PRINCESS BELLE” Sarah Banko From Bushkill Township
3rd, “WITCH and BLACK CAT” Nicole and Brianna Snyder From Nazareth
MOST COMMICAL:
1ST, HOMESTEAD KENNELS From Nazareth
2nd, “HAWIAN LUAU” Center for Animals Health and Welfare From Easton
BEST APPEARING SMALL GROUP:
1ST, “PIRATE SHIP” MacINTRYE FAMILY From Easton
2ND, NAZARETH HIGH SCHOOL DANCE TEAM
3RD, KIDS CO-OP From Bethlehem
4th, “SUPER HEROS” Freiss family From Lower Nazareth
BEST APPEARING LARGE GROUP:
1ST, NAZARETH YMCA DANCE TEAM
2ND, LEHIGH VALLEY A.A.R.C. CAR CLUB
3RD, JEANIE CARDINALS SCHOOL of DANCE From Nazareth
BOY SCOUTS:
1ST, BOY SCOUT TROOP 74 From Nazareth
2ND, CUB PACK 78 From Nazareth
3RD, CUB PACK 88 From Nazareth
GIRL SCOUTS:
1ST, NAZARETH AREA GIRL SCOUTS
BEST APPEARING FLOATS:
1ST, PARKETTES from ALLENTOWN
2ND, JENNINGS TRANSPORTATION from NAZARETH
3RD, NAZARETH MIDDLE SCHOOL BEST BUDDIES
4TH, LABAR TOWING from NAZARETH
CHEERLEADERS:
1ST, UPPER NAZARETH CLIPPERS
2ND, LOWER NAZARETH WILDCATS
SPECIAL JUDGES AWARD:
“DYNAMIC DUO” Brian and Conner Rehn from Nazareth
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Saturday, September 25, 2010
2010 Pumpkin Carving Contest
How would you like to win a super terrific WeirdNazareth.com T-shirt? I know, I know. Stop jumping up and down and listen for a minute. We are having another pumpkin carving contest and it is really easy to enter. You’re probably already carving a pumpkin for Halloween, right? Well all you have to do is take a photograph of it and send it to us and if it’s good enough you might win a T-shirt. Why are you jumping around again? The WeirdNazareth.com T-shirt is made of real fabric and has a spiffy silk-screened logo on the front. Each WeirdNazareth.com T-shirt is hand printed by our founder in his basement.Information and Rules:
How to Enter:
To enter, take a photo of your pumpkin and e-mail it to us at weirdnazareth@hotmail.com. You can send us the photo itself as an attachment or a link to the photo on a photo-hosting site (Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa, etc.) We would prefer a link, but whatever works for you works for us. When you e-mail us, please tell us your name (at least your first and last intial; privacy will be respected) and the town that you live in. If you want to tell us a little about your pumpkin we would love to hear it. If you're feeling saucy, you can cronical it for the Maker Diaries.
The Weird Nazareth staff and our families will sort through all the entries and determine 4 finalists. The 4 finalists will then be posted on weirdnazareth.com and our readers will vote for the best pumpkin. After the contest is over, we will fawn over the winner and post a slide show of all the losers' entries.
Deadline for entry is midnight, Oct. 31, 2010.
Rules:
1) Your photo must be of a real pumpkin or some sort of pumpkin-like vegetable.
2) You do not have to be a Nazareth resident to enter the contest. You can be from anywhere in the whole world. Even Easton.
3) You must be of legal pumpkin carving age to enter.
4) By submitting a photo for the contest you are allowing us to use the photo to post on our sites, on our Facebook page, etc.
5) If you become a finalist, we will post your name (first name only) and town. We won’t post your last name if you don’t want us to.
6) Your pumpkin does not have to be carved, per se. It can be painted or sculpted or whatever. Basically, although we’re calling it a pumpkin “carving” contest it’s really a “creative pumpkin” contest.
7) No cheating. At weirdnazareth.com we’re fairly computer savvy. If you try to use a photo you found from a Google images search we’ll probably be able to tell.
8) You can submit as many pumpkins as you want. So you can create some really interesting in-family squabbles if you wanted.
9) If needed, you can submit multiple photos of the same pumpkin (different angles, etc.)
10) The rules above are very loose. Feel free to bend them.
Prizes:
The ultimate, grand prize, first place winner will get a WeirdNazareth.com T-shirt that is printed on whatever color shirt you want (assuming that the color has already been invented and exists at Target). It can be whatever size you need. In other words, I won’t be printing the shirt until we find out who won.
What are you waiting for?
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