{"id":118469,"date":"2026-02-19T22:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118469\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T22:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:26:13","slug":"northampton-park-closed-after-dead-geese-sightings-in-borough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118469\/","title":{"rendered":"Northampton park closed after dead geese sightings in borough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent reports of dead geese in one Northampton County borough have prompted the closure of one of its parks.<\/p>\n<p>Canal Street Park in Northampton borough will be closed until further notice, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northamptonboro.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">officials announced Thursday<\/a>. The closure includes the D&amp;L Trail and all other paths, grassy areas, basketball courts, tennis courts, playground, pavilion and access to the Lehigh River throughout the park.<\/p>\n<p>The closure comes one day after officials announced they had received \u201cnumerous reports\u201d of dead geese throughout the borough.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who sees dead geese should avoid getting close to them, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Sightings should be reported to the state game commission at 833-742-4868, in addition to the borough office at 610-262-2576 or via the My Northampton App.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recent reports of dead geese in one Northampton County borough have prompted the closure of one of its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,1057,182,139,4729,434,28,50,432,1653],"class_list":{"0":"post-118469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-northampton","15":"tag-northampton-county","16":"tag-pennsylvania","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-top-stories-tmc","19":"tag-whitehall-area"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}