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Police: 2 Men Smashed Jewelry Store Window

Hellertown Police say a surveillance video depicts two men smashing the front display window at Klassic Gold.

Hellertown Police are continuing to investigate the shattering of a display window at Klassic Gold, a downtown borough jewelry store. In a press release issued Saturday, police announced that surveillance video footage "depicts two males smashing the storefront window" at 650 Main Street. It was previously reported that the window was shattered by a sandbag at about 8:30pm Nov. 13. Anyone with information about the case--which is being investigated as criminal mischief--is asked to contact the Hellertown Police Department at 610-759-2200.

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Downtown Jewelry Store Window Smashed

On Tuesday, Nov. 13 a sandbag was thrown through the display window at Klassic Gold, 650 Main St., Hellertown. Borough police are investigating the incident.

Hellertown Police are investigating an incident of criminal mischief that occurred at a well-known jewelry store last Tuesday evening. According to police and Klassic Gold co-owners Denise Knauss and Lynn Kemmerer, the store's sidewalk display window was shattered by a sandbag at about 8:30pm Nov. 13. By Wednesday afternoon, the window had been temporarily boarded up with plywood and the store was open for business. Klassic Gold is located at 650 Main St., in the middle of a busy downtown block, so Knauss and Kemmerer said they are hopeful that anyone who may have witnessed the incident will contact borough police. "Whatever information anyone could provide to the police would be helpful," they said in an email, adding that the incident "…

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Local Business Spotlight

Local Business Spotlight: Klassic Gold

The jewelry store located at 650 Main Street in Hellertown has been owned and operated by business partners Denise Knauss and Lynn Kemmerer for 17 years.

In every small town businesses come and go. It's the ones that stay over many years that help form the bedrock of a community by offering the products and services that local residents need. Klassic Gold, a jewelry store on Main Street in Hellertown, can be considered a part of the Hellertown business community's bedrock thanks to its history in town, which extends back decades. The store that was purchased in 1994 by business partners and current owners Denise Knauss and Lynn Kemmerer originally opened as Gold 'N' Things in 1983. After they purchased it, Knauss and Kemmerer spent two years downsizing the store and re-envisioning it--a process that included changing its name to Klassic Gold. However, the name hasn't been the only thing …

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