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Food Scene
Chobani Needs 3 Billion Pounds of Milk a Year. Pennsylvania Has to Go Find It.
Chobani's $1.2 billion plant in Upper Macungie will take in about 30 percent of all the milk Pennsylvania produces, in a state whose output has fallen 10 percent in a decade. How a shepherd's son built a $20 billion company out of a closing Kraft plant, why the deal almost died over wastewater, and what it now asks of 4,300 dairy farms.
Food Scene
A Third-Generation Butcher Brings 150 Family Recipes to East Allen Township
For five falls Jeremy Scavazzo took his son to the pumpkin patch on Nor-Bath Boulevard. This summer he bought the building next door. Scavazzo's Gilded Cleaver opens with two smokehouses, a grandmother behind the counter, and more than 150 recipes handed down from the grandfather who taught him.
Food Scene
Meet the Couple Behind Centre Square Cheese, Easton’s Gourmet Destination
How Ron and Jennifer turned a 15-year dream into Centre Square Cheese, a specialty cheese, tinned fish and gourmet shop at the Easton Public Market.
Hometown Heroes
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Hometown Heroes
Detective James Stanko: The Allentown Officer Who Gave Everything to the Kids Who Needed Him Most
When Detective James Stanko passed away in January 2022, Allentown lost more than an officer. The PAL program, the Boys and Girls Club, and an entire generation of young people lost the mentor who showed up for them every single day.
Hometown Heroes
Healthcare Where It Is Needed Most: The Neighborhood Health Centers of the Lehigh Valley
Since 2004, the Neighborhood Health Centers of the Lehigh Valley have provided healthcare to nearly 7,500 patients a year across Allentown, Bethlehem, and Easton, serving communities that the traditional healthcare system often leaves behind.
Hometown Heroes
Henry Cochran: Allentown's Firefighter of the Year and the Mentor Every Probie Needs
Henry Cochran was named Allentown Fire Department's 2024 Firefighter of the Year not for a single dramatic rescue, but for something harder to measure: being the dependable, steady presence that every fire company needs and every junior firefighter deserves.
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Lehigh Valley History
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Lehigh Valley History
Constitution Drive: The Real History of Allentown's Most Legendary Road
A one-legged ghost, a family of albinos and a whistling in the woods have made Constitution Drive Allentown's most legendary road. The documented history is stranger: a Walking Purchase payoff, abandoned quarries full of radioactive rock, Bethlehem Steel buffer land, and a park nobody can quite finish.
Lehigh Valley History
The Cup on the Roof: How Dixie Came to Easton, and What Happens Next
A fear of shared drinking cups built a company, the 1918 flu sent it to Wilson Township, and a 50,000-gallon cup sat on the roof for a century. After 43 years empty, two rejected tax deals and a Hollywood film shoot, the Dixie Cup plant is becoming 412 apartments.
Lehigh Valley History
Toys “R” Us Returns to Lehigh Valley Mall Thursday, Across the Lot From the Store the Valley Lost
A seasonal Toys “R” Us opens September 24 at Lehigh Valley Mall, eight years after Whitehall lost its store. The full story runs from a 1948 baby furniture shop to a $6.6 billion buyout, $464 million in fees, and 33,000 people laid off without severance.
Real Estate News & Highlights
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Real Estate
Living Inside UNESCO: Historic Moravian Bethlehem
Bethlehem became a World Heritage Site in 2024. But you cannot buy a house inside it, UNESCO did not add a single rule, and the regulations that actually govern your front door have been on the books since 1961.
Real Estate
Steel Money on the Hill
Railroad men built it, steel men bought it, and the man who founded the American oil industry died in a brick twin halfway down the block. A walk through Fountain Hill mansion row and what became of it.
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Culture
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Culture
Godfrey Daniels Turned 50 This Year. The Party Outgrew the Room.
Fifty years after two friends opened a 90-seat listening room in a South Side doughnut shop, Godfrey Daniels has been marking the anniversary on bigger stages. The last of those nights is Friday, when The Vanaver Caravan brings America in Motion to the Ice House on Sand Island, with a square dance after it.
Culture
She Spent 40 Years Making Things for Other People. In 2015 She Started Painting.
Kristin Mernitz designed children's wear prints, sewed hats, gold leafed ceilings and ran a faux finishing business before she ever painted for herself. Now the Easton artist paints the Vera Neumann scarves she has been collecting since a Santa Monica flea market, and the work is up in the Alpha Building through Oct. 27.
Culture
50 Odd Years Comes Home: Big Poppa Brings a Live Rock Show to LehighValley.FM
Al Gilotti, known on the air as Big Poppa, is bringing 50 Odd Years to LehighValley.FM every Monday night from 8 to 11 p.m. It is three hours of deep album cuts, underappreciated bands and new music, hosted live from a Bethlehem home studio, and it is the first original show on the station we launched in August.
Local News
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Local News
Win a Family Day at Valley Fruits & Veggies: We're Giving Away Two Farm Vouchers
Two Lehigh Valley families will win a day at the Bath farm: four corn maze admissions, two kids' Bonus Wristbands and two large pumpkins each. Sign up for our newsletter by Friday, Oct. 23, at 5 p.m. to enter.
Local News
Chobani Needs 3 Billion Pounds of Milk a Year. Pennsylvania Has to Go Find It.
Chobani's $1.2 billion plant in Upper Macungie will take in about 30 percent of all the milk Pennsylvania produces, in a state whose output has fallen 10 percent in a decade. How a shepherd's son built a $20 billion company out of a closing Kraft plant, why the deal almost died over wastewater, and what it now asks of 4,300 dairy farms.
Local News
A New Symbol of Lehigh Valley Pride Has Arrived
LVEDC unveiled a 6-foot-by-7-foot “Made in Lehigh Valley” sculpture at the mall on Wednesday, with Crayola, Martin Guitar and Freshpet on hand. The logo is small. What it is advertising is a $57.3 billion economy, 708,000 people, two record-breaking industrial investments, and a region whose recognition has lagged its performance by a decade.
