{"id":4644,"date":"2025-10-16T20:43:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/4644\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T20:43:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:43:22","slug":"watch-reynolds-crampsie-smith-debate-in-bethlehem-mayoral-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/4644\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Reynolds, Crampsie Smith debate in Bethlehem mayoral primary"},"content":{"rendered":"

BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2014 The candidates for Bethlehem mayor met head-to-head Monday night in a debate organized by Lehigh Valley Public Media.<\/p>\n

Two Democratic candidates on the ballot participated \u2014 incumbent J. William Reynolds and city Councilwoman Grace Crampsie Smith.<\/p>\n

The debate started at 6 p.m. at the Univest Public Media Center.<\/p>\n

LehighValleyNews.com reporters Tom Shortell and Will Oliver moderated the event.<\/p>\n

The hourlong debate streamed live on LehighValleyNews.com, on LehighValleyNews.com\u2019s Facebook account<\/a>, and on the PBS39 YouTube channel<\/a>. (A replay can be watched above)<\/p>\n

The debate will be broadcast on PBS39<\/a> at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 30, as well as additional times in May.<\/p>\n

2 more Lehigh Valley debates<\/p>\n

Lehigh Valley Public Media will host two more debates before the May 20 primary election.<\/p>\n

The Northampton County executive debate will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 30, at the Univest Public Media Center.<\/p>\n

Participating will be the two Democrats on the ballot \u2014 county Controller Tara Zrinski and Amy Cozze.<\/p>\n

To register, visit here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Lehigh County executive debate will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 7, also at the Univest Public Media Center.<\/p>\n

Participating will be the two Republicans on the ballot \u2014 Mike Welsh and Roger MacLean.<\/p>\n

The registration link for free tickets to that debate is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2014 The candidates for Bethlehem mayor met head-to-head Monday night in a debate organized by Lehigh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,4245,4246,154,4247,4248,4249,4250,4251],"class_list":["post-4644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-mayoral-debate-2025","tag-bethlehem-mayoral-primary-2025","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-grace-crampsie-smith-debate","tag-j-william-reynolds-debate","tag-pbs39-debate-bethlehem","tag-univest-public-media-center-debate","tag-whos-running-for-bethlehem-mayor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644","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=4644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}