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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.
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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.
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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.
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Piscitello's Home Center, a Wilson Borough Hardware Fixture for 68 Years, to Close October 30
A final chapter for a Lehigh Valley institution: Piscitello's Home Center in Wilson Borough opens a storewide liquidation sale today and will close permanently on October 30 after 68 years in business.
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They Outbid Two Solar Farms and Two Developers to Keep 46 Acres Growing. Now It's Fall Fest Season.
Chris and Deb Colitas bought 46 acres off Airport Road at market value for one reason: to keep it farmland. Today Valley Fruits & Veggies spans 55 acres in Bath, where Fall Fest runs through Nov. 1 with a five-acre corn maze, hay rides, pick-your-own pumpkins and apple cider donuts baked fresh daily.
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She Was Six When Her Family Bought the Limeport Inn. Twenty-Five Years Later She Runs the Kitchen.
Emily Fischer grew up on a Zionsville horse farm and stood on a milk crate to watch the Limeport Inn's line. She worked salads and fryer grill for six years, took over the kitchen around 2017, and wrote the restaurant's weekend specials from a NICU room. Now she is betting a paid-off 1842 building on the next 30 years.
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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.
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Her Sister Told Her She Was a Natural. It Took Her Years to Believe It.
Michelle was 14 when her sister asked her for a haircut, 20 when she became a stylist, and 25 years into the career before she stopped believing she could run a business of her own. In 2023 she opened Brooklyn Axccents LLC on Hamilton Boulevard in Trexlertown, named for the borough she grew up in.
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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.
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Michael Block Takes One-Shot Lead Into Final Round of Inaugural Jefferson Lehigh Valley Classic
Club professional Michael Block fired a bogey-free 63 Saturday to lead the inaugural Jefferson Lehigh Valley Classic at Lehigh Country Club in Allentown by one stroke, with Steven Alker and Richard Green in close pursuit for Sunday's finale.
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Raised in the Family Restaurant: Turnstone Creative Hires Giovanni Amodei
The Bethlehem agency has named a lifelong Lehigh Valley resident to lead business development. He spent twelve years selling food across Pennsylvania, and before that he grew up in his family’s restaurants.
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The Person Who Keeps the Deal Moving: Lehigh Financial Group Hires Stacey Figueroa
Commercial loans close on documentation, not handshakes. The Allentown brokerage has brought on a licensed real estate salesperson to run the paperwork from submission through closing.
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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.
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Dorney Park Halloween Haunt Ranked No. 10 in USA Today's 10Best Theme Park Halloween Events for 2026
USA Today readers ranked Dorney Park's Halloween Haunt 10th best in the nation among theme park Halloween events, with two new attractions added for the 2026 season running through October 31.
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30 Years, Three DJ of the Year Awards, and a Name He Never Picked: Matt Metal Joins LehighValley.FM
Matt Metal has been putting Lehigh Valley metal on the radio since Halloween of 1984, from Friday nights on WXLV to the stage at the Airport Music Hall, Stabler Arena and the Allentown Fairgrounds. Three runs at the station, three DJ of the year awards, and a name Kamikaze Craig handed him on the air. Now he brings The Matt Metal Show to LehighValley.FM, live Wednesdays from 8 to 11 p.m.
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1,800 Albums and 1,000 78s: Ron the Paisan Brings Radio Daze to LehighValley.FM
Ron Serafin has been on internet radio since 2004, when he found the ad for his first station in a newspaper somebody left in a bathroom stall at work. Now the Lower Saucon Township record collector brings Radio Daze with Ron the Paisan to LehighValley.FM, live Tuesdays from 7 to 10 p.m. starting Sept. 29.
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Northampton County Executive Warns Property Tax Hike Is Increasingly Likely for 2027
New Northampton County Executive Tara Zrinski told the county council this month that a property tax increase is increasingly likely in 2027, citing deferred expenses the prior administration left unaddressed.
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She Was Going to Shut Down Hocus Pocus in 2020. It Just Turned Ten.
Rose Selvaggio started Hocus Pocus Cleaning in 2016 to get herself through school, and planned to shut it down the year she graduated. Ten years later it employs about 30 women, serves more than 425 recurring clients and is tracking toward $1.7 million in revenue.
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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.
