Four Lehigh County school districts for the first time plan to begin classes before Labor Day in 2012-13. Catasauqua Area , East Penn , Northwestern Lehigh and Salisbury Township administrators say the change will make it easier to schedule at least 180 days of instruction for students -- a Pennsylvania requirement -- particularly if bad weather prompts school closings.
Lehigh Valley legislators feel they’ve made great strides in improving gas pipeline safety in the year following the Allentown explosion that killed five people.
Commissioners to consider whether to move forward on first revaluation in two decades. Lehigh County property owners could find out once and for all Wednesday night whether county commissioners will move ahead with a long-planned, countywide property reassessment or hold off until the real estate market stabilizes.
Voters in Salisbury and Whitehall townships are among those appealing what they believe is an unconstitutional legislative redistricting plan. On behalf of a group of 13 Pennsylvania voters, the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia and the law firm Hogan Lovells has asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to reject the Pennsylvania Legislative Reapportionment Commission’s redistricting plan ...
A box truck and tractor trailer collided in Pennsylvania in the early morning hours of Tuesday, January 31, 2012 resulting in the tragic death of the driver of the box truck. The collision occurred on Interstate-78 in Lehigh County. According to the Pennsylvania State Police, Mr. Alexandro Luis Morales, a native of Landsdowne, PA, was driving his Freightliner tractor-trailer east at 6:49 this ...
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY, Bethlehem is looking for volunteers to help sell daffodils at sites throughout Lehigh and Northampton County during Daffodil Days, March 19-25. Shifts are two to four hours. Contact: Rosemarie Murphy, 610-921-2329 ext. 3109.
HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the new state House and Senate maps is a reminder that even in the most cynical of political activities, the power remains with the people.
