{"id":47572,"date":"2025-11-29T11:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T11:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/47572\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T11:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T11:26:08","slug":"upper-nazareth-celebrates-holidays-with-tree-lighting-showcasing-a-custom-moravian-star-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/47572\/","title":{"rendered":"Upper Nazareth celebrates holidays with tree lighting, showcasing a custom Moravian Star (PHOTOS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"LIFFGVOCUFC7XJCENMA7ANRBYU\">The holidays have officially begun in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/search\/?q=upper%20nazareth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Upper Nazareth Township<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"EFYJMV4FVFBY5PKK2MRMMLZ64Q\">The community turned out Friday night to kick off this year\u2019s holiday season for the fourth annual tree-lighting ceremony, outside the Upper Nazareth Township Municipal Building at 100 Newport Ave. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"JRMCMISJIJANHJ36FTDUGL3Q5Q\">There was hot cocoa, fire pits and plenty of music to put everyone in the holiday spirit. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"HOZX7DYNXRGBTD7EPO3XXTH3WE\">Santa arrived on a fire truck and met with youngsters and posed for photos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"FRHKT6BLUNCHDKA6LDCWVEAOIY\">The highlight this year was the unveiling of a custom-built Moravian Star that topped the Christmas tree.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ULYZ7YQPGRDZDLXN4IRGEJIFWQ\">The star was handcrafted by the township\u2019s public works department and measures over five feet in diameter and is illuminated by 1,300 lights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"PQNK4PG3EFHK5M2RQU56J2U4FI\">Check out the gallery above to see scenes from Friday night\u2019s tree lighting ceremony captured by freelance photographer Donna Fisher. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The holidays have officially begun in Upper Nazareth Township. The community turned out Friday night to kick off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-47572","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47572","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=47572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}