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Contractors help Easton, Phillipsburg with snow removal. Bethlehem pleads for patience. (PHOTOS)
Updated Feb 03, 2021;
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This week’s snowfall, the second-biggest accumulation on record in the Lehigh Valley, is stretching plow crews to their limits.
In Easton and Phillipsburg, that has meant bringing in contractors to assist with removing the snow clogging streets and alleys.
“This is historic,” Phillipsburg Mayor Todd Tersigni said Wednesday, about 24 hours after the storm subsided. “This is the 25-year event. There was no other way.”
To hire contractors with loaders and dump trucks, Easton and Phillipsburg are competing with neighboring municipalities to bring in whatever extra help is available, Easton officials said in an update Wednesday. The city was able to hire eight contractors.