{"id":285399,"date":"2026-09-13T23:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T23:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/285399\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T23:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T23:57:00","slug":"new-school-year-begins-lehigh-valley-press-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/285399\/","title":{"rendered":"New school year begins \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published September 09. 2026 10:26AM<\/p>\n<p>CONTRIBUTED PHOTOSBrianna Tagliavia, a sixth-grade student at Northampton Area Middle School, is ready for her first day of school for the 2026-27 academic year. Classes in Northampton Area School District began Aug. 24.<\/p>\n<p>NAMS eighth-grader Dominick Tagliavia is eager to start his day.<\/p>\n<p>Layne Fenstermaker heads off to eighth grade at NAMS.<\/p>\n<p>Logan and Noah West, fourth-grader and second-grader at Siegfried Elementary School, respectively, take a moment together before the start of the first day of school.<\/p>\n<p>Siegfried Elementary kindergartner Jinora Betancourt is all smiles for her first day.<\/p>\n<p>Kylee and Jaycek Kiefer, 12th-grader at Northampton Area High School and eighth-grader at NAMS, respectively, are ready for the first day of classes Aug. 24.<\/p>\n<p>Eighth-grade student at NAMS, Jayden Meitzler is excited to start the new academic year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published September 09. 2026 10:26AM CONTRIBUTED PHOTOSBrianna Tagliavia, a sixth-grade student at Northampton Area Middle School, is ready&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-285399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285399","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=285399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}