Glenn Epps

Easton

life hack: oatmeal raisin cookies for breakfast | + walks w/ my doggo 👌🏾 | tell me something good 🎧 | journalist and author

Articles

Phillipsburg welcomes B. Crafty Studio with weekend opening party

3 weeks ago | lehighvalleylive.com | Glenn Epps

A new kind of craft studio will debut in Phillipsburg this weekend. An opening weekend party hosted at B. Crafty Studio will offer the public a first glimpse inside the community craft room located at 96 Sitgreaves St. on June 7 and 8. Opening weekend is designed to connect artists, craftspeople, and hobbyists alike, said owner Malia Borges. “This isn’t just a shop,” Borges said.
New cupcake shop brings whimsical tea room atmosphere to Phillipsburg

3 weeks ago | lehighvalleylive.com | Glenn Epps

For the Love of Cupcakes has made the big jump from incubator bakehouse to brick-and-mortar cupcake castle and customers are scrambling to get inside. The homegrown Phillipsburg bakeshop company saw its first afternoon rush on Monday. Customers were still hurrying into the new storefront cafe at 35 Sitgreaves St., near Shappell Park to snag last batches of fresh-baked bread, cookies and artisanal cupcakes around noon on Tuesday.
P’burg’s top cop touts outreach so ‘people don’t just see us when something bad happens’

3 weeks ago | lehighvalleylive.com | Glenn Epps

Phillipsburg police Chief Anthony Goodell and officers participated in a resource fair on Tuesday, emphasizing positive interactions beyond crisis response. LEAD Program coordinators for a law enforcement diversion program in Phillipsburg hosted a resource fair for area residents to raise awareness about crucial services for seniors. The Resource Fair was held at the Phillipsburg Senior Center on Firth Street. Organizations from around Warren County and within the town participated.
Phillipsburg looks to assess and address concerns about former landfill beneath Delaware River Park

3 weeks ago | lehighvalleylive.com | Glenn Epps

Phillipsburg officials are considering hiring a firm for an environmental study of a former roadside dump, now a riverside park, to address growing health and safety concerns. “The walking path is heaving,” said Matt Noel, the town’s municipal services deputy director said, and “with the exception of the dog park, Delaware River Park sits idle.”Local historians recall portions of the public land received municipal solid waste before the area was capped in 1986.
Allentown’s Baum School of Art begins construction on new three-story wing

3 weeks ago | lehighvalleylive.com | Glenn Epps

At 99 years old, the Baum School of Art is still breaking ground on behalf of local artists. Local dignitaries joined administrators in May at the historic Allentown institution to celebrate a multi-million-dollar expansion that will ensure the organization can support local arts for the next hundred more years. The renovations will dramatically transform and modernize the school.
Lehigh County gets new stir-fry and salad bar at Airport Shopping Center

4 weeks ago | lehighvalleylive.com | Glenn Epps

A stir-fry and salad bar restaurant opened its newest store in Lehigh County, inside the Airport Shopping Center. This is honeygrow’s 60th storefront in the nation. At honeygrow, customers can choose from a variety of proteins to pair with noodles, rice and/or vegetable bases. They have their choice of sauces to craft made-to-order salads or fruits to form desserts.
Parking rights battle in Phillipsburg pits 80-year-old resident against EMS

4 weeks ago | lehighvalleylive.com | Glenn Epps

A dispute over available parking in Phillipsburg is spiraling out of control, neighbors say. “It’s hard to feel like we aren’t being retaliated against,” said Diane Turner, 80, of Prospect Street. Earlier this month, she requested a formal intervention between the Phillipsburg Emergency Squad 94, located at 360 Prospect St., and herself in May. The town is in the process of deciding whether to expand exclusive street parking rights to the emergency squad.
Rite Aid employees near Phillipsburg notified of store closures amid bankruptcy

1 month ago | lehighvalleylive.com | Glenn Epps

Dozens of employees for Rite Aid Pharmacy stores in Warren County were notified that they would be laid off in the coming weeks. A spokesperson for the retail chain did not respond to requests for more information. Three stores in Warren County will close by June 2025, employees said. More than 1,200 retail lease and fee-owned properties are included in the sale. Sixteen states are being impacted.
Inflation threatens completion of Warren County animal shelter, rescue says

1 month ago | lehighvalleylive.com | Glenn Epps

Common Sense for Animals needs millions of additional dollars to complete construction of a rescue shelter and veterinary hospital in Warren County. The Franklin Township rescue has the steel frame up but inflation has caused construction costs to more than double, leaving the no-kill shelter in desperate need of funds, the owners said. The building was proposed in 2020 as a two-story structure, roughly 12,000 square foot in area, with ample room for parking and a shed.
Phillipsburg faces $14.5 million EPA mandate for sewer infrastructure

1 month ago | lehighvalleylive.com | Glenn Epps

Another administrative order will be drafted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and placed at the desks of Phillipsburg officials this year. Between 2025 and 2032 as much as $14.5 million must be spent on improving the town’s aged-out sewer infrastructure, according to the federal agency. Some projects have already started:Permits are already being reviewed and issued for the development of a Riverside Way Pump Station. The design calls for raising the building two feet.

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