Let them eat cake: Easton Farmers' Market celebrates 271st birthday
The farmers' market almost disappeared in the early 2000s, but community support helped revitalized it.
The farmers' market almost disappeared in the early 2000s, but community support helped revitalized it.
A pretrial conference was held Wednesday in federal court stemming from Liberty High School Assistant Principal Antonio Traca's federal civil rights lawsuit against retiring Superintendent Joseph Roy and the Bethlehem Area School District.
Speakers accuse public school officials, teachers' unions of trying to "sexualize children" or indoctrinating them. Some called for restricting LGBTQ books. Protestors traveled from the Lehigh Valley and beyond to stand against the Moms for Liberty's "extremism" and in support of LGBTQ people.
Public school advocates worry vouchers will divert money from public education into charters or private schools.
Maria Shantz was one of a group of Republicans who signed a controversial pledge to create policies around gender and rejecting "wokeness."