Wednesday, September 29 2010
(LehighValleyLive.com)

The mayor and most members of City Council are leaning toward favoring a permanent smoking ban in Centre Square in Downtown Easton, but there is a question as to whether they have a legal right to do it.
Northampton County owns the square, where smoking is now banned under a 90-day executive order that was renewed in late August. The county may need to give permission for the city to enact a permanent ban. Mayor Sal Panto Jr. doesn't see it that way.
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