{"id":33371,"date":"2025-11-13T20:40:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T20:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/33371\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T20:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T20:40:18","slug":"stretch-of-road-in-easton-closing-thursday-as-crews-prepare-for-peace-candle-installation-easton-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/33371\/","title":{"rendered":"Stretch of road in Easton closing Thursday, as crews prepare for Peace Candle installation | Easton Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EASTON, Pa. &#8211; A stretch of road in Easton will be closed Thursday, as crews prepare for this year\u2019s Peace Candle installation.<\/p>\n<p>A portion of Centre Square\u2019s roadway will be closed to traffic so that the crane used to build the Peace Candle can be placed there, according to a news release from the city.<\/p>\n<p>The city says it expects N. 3rd St. and the 300 block of Northampton St. (the one-way section) to both be closed from approximately 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>S. 3rd St. and the 200 block of Northampton Street will still flow into the circle as usual, the city said.<\/p>\n<p>The city said the 200 block of Northampton St. exiting the circle going eastbound is currently closed for hotel construction.<\/p>\n<p>The annual Peace Candle Lighting Ceremony will be held at 6:30 pm on Saturday, November 29: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shopdowntowneaston.com\/peace-candle-lighting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.shopdowntowneaston.com\/peace-candle-lighting\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EASTON, Pa. &#8211; A stretch of road in Easton will be closed Thursday, as crews prepare for this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,20936,2181,20065,20933,20934,6654,20935],"class_list":{"0":"post-33371","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-centre-square","12":"tag-easton","13":"tag-northampton-street","14":"tag-peace-candle-installation","15":"tag-peace-candle-lighting-ceremony","16":"tag-road-closure","17":"tag-traffic-disruption"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33371","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=33371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}