Presidents’ Day 2021: Are restaurants open? Does mail run? What about banks, schools and government offices?
Updated Feb 14, 2021;
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Presidents’ Day is celebrated the third Monday of February.
This year, the holiday falls on Monday, Feb. 15. Originally, it marked the birthday of George Washington, on Feb. 22. But the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, which took effect in 1971, switched the commemoration (along with Columbus Day and Memorial Day) to the Monday holiday.
The federal government continues to recognize the third Monday in February as Washington’s Birthday, but because states are not obliged to adopt federal holidays, the date can vary.
Here’s a rundown of what’s open and what’s closed Monday in observance of Presidents’ Day:
Look back through 130 years’ worth of historic Easton Hospital photos and facts
Updated on Feb 11, 2021;
Published on Feb 11, 2021
A modern brick structure replaced the original Easton Hospital on Wolf Street in Easton in 1906-07. Courtesy Marx Room, Easton Area Public Library
Editor s Note
This story is part of a special report on how Easton Hospital almost closed last year and what will now become of it.
The City of Easton grew into an industry titan in the late 19th century. Railroads and canals brought raw materials through the city and into its silk mills and breweries.
The same modes of transport allowed the export of these products. But the growing city lacked something increasingly necessary for the health of its growing population: a hospital.
Largely forgotten Black burial ground suggests remains lie under Easton park
Updated Jan 29, 2021;
Posted Jan 29, 2021
Nesquehoning Street Park is seen Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, at 325 W. Nesquehoning St. in Easton. It was one of seven so-called pocket parks citywide studied under a municipal contract by Omnes Landscape Architecture, Planning & Art with an eye toward making improvements to the properties.Kurt Bresswein | For lehighvalleylive.com
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An effort to improve seven so-called pocket parks around Easton has rediscovered a remnant from our segregationist past.
One of the properties being studied, Nesquehoning Street Park on South Side, appears to have been created atop a burial ground for Black people, according to park improvement planners from Easton-based Omnes Landscape Architecture, Planning & Art.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2021: What’s open and what’s closed in the Lehigh Valley
Updated Jan 17, 2021;
Posted Jan 17, 2021
A statue of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stands outside the Essex County Hall of Records. A march in Newark and virtual commemorations around the state will be held on Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday commemorating KIng s birth on Jan. 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia.Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media For NJ.com
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day marks the birth of the civil rights activist who advocated for nonviolent protest. In 1964 he was the youngest man to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
4 presidential impeachments in U.S. history: See Express-Times front pages for each
Updated Jan 14, 2021;
Posted Jan 14, 2021
The Express-Times and its predecessors have been publishing long enough to run reports on all four presidential impeachments in U.S. history. At center, the Jan. 14, 2021, edition announces President Donald Trump s second impeachment. The others, clockwise from top left: Bill Clinton s in 1998, Trump s first impeachment in 2019, Richard Nixon s resignation before impeachment in 1974, and Andrew Johnson s in 1868.lehighvalleylive.com archives
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Of the four presidential impeachments in U.S. history, Donald Trump now has two.
Bill Clinton was impeached in 1998. Richard Nixon resigned to avoid it in 1974. Congress brought charges against Andrew Johnson in 1868.