Christmas Decorating Delayed by Superstorm Sandy
City employees ordinarily tasked with decorating city streets for the holidays had to be diverted for weeks after the storm. Decorations should be fully deployed by the end of the week.
Blame it on Sandy. Bethlehem’s municipal holiday decorations have not been fully deployed throughout The Christmas City and the city’s Department of Public Works says the hurricane/superstorm that barreled through the Northeast in late October is to blame. In a Facebook post Monday, the city officials said the effects of the superstorm delayed decoration but, weather permitting, the work should be completed on Friday, about two weeks later than the scheduled Nov. 23 turn-on date. Get the latest news and updates. Like Bethlehem Patch on Facebook. Resources from the Public Works department, including the city’s electrical bureau, had to be diverted to repairing streetlights, traffic lights and other storm recovery duties that made for “a …
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