{"id":238240,"date":"2026-07-08T10:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T10:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/238240\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T10:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T10:20:07","slug":"americas-250th-in-bethlehem-top-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/238240\/","title":{"rendered":"AMERICA\u2019S 250TH IN BETHLEHEM | Top Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Town of Bethlehem commemorated the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on Saturday, July 4, with a parade and ceremonies on the green followed by a town picnic. The fireworks display that was planned to cap off the celebration was postponed to Sunday, July 5, but other activities on Saturday included a photography exhibit at Memorial Hall featuring residents\u2019 take on the theme America Through the Eyes of Bethlehem and an ecumenical service at First Church of Bethlehem. Above, the Mattatuck Fife &amp; Drum Corps of Waterbury headed up the parade after a presentation of colors by the Bethlehem American Legion Post 146 Color Guard. The Mattatuck Fife &amp; Drum Corps was founded in 1767 and is the oldest continuously operating corps of its kind in the United States. (O\u2019Brien photo)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Town of Bethlehem commemorated the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on Saturday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,23654],"class_list":["post-238240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-top_stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238240","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=238240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}