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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.
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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.
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No. 7 Lehigh Mountain Hawks Hold Off Dartmouth 24-20 for Fourth Straight Win
Luke Yoder's go-ahead fourth-quarter touchdown and DJ Brown's game-sealing interception carried No. 7 Lehigh to a 24-20 win over Dartmouth on Saturday, improving the Mountain Hawks to 4-0 on the 2026 season.
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Could Downtown Bethlehem Do Without Paid Parking? What Happened in the Towns That Tried
Bethlehem residents say parking prices and tickets are keeping them away from downtown, and point to towns that dropped paid parking. We looked at what actually happened in Naples, Perth, Sarasota and others, and what it would take in Bethlehem.
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Fifth Street Cross: Inside Emmaus’s Thursday Night Race Where Fifth Place Wins
Born in a backyard on Fifth Street in 2005, the Thursday night run and cyclocross series now draws Olympians and first-time kid racers to the Emmaus Compost Center, and the leaders race for fifth place.
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Jefferson Lehigh Valley Classic 2026 Fan Guide: Parking, Tickets, Schedule and Who’s Playing
Free parking at Dorney Park, tickets from $15, the day-by-day schedule and the confirmed field, from Stewart Cink to Michael Block, for the Sept. 28 to Oct. 4 tournament at Lehigh Country Club.
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Penn’s Cave: The All-Water Cavern That Could Become Pennsylvania’s Next State Park
Three hours west of the Lehigh Valley, a boat carries you through a limestone cavern with no path and no dry ground. The family that has owned Penn’s Cave since 1908 now wants it to become a state park.
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36 Seasons, 868 Wins, and a New Microphone: Tim Neiman Joins LehighValley.FM
Tim Neiman coached DeSales baseball for 36 seasons and 868 wins. Starting Monday, Sept. 14, he brings his interview show Straight Lines to LehighValley.FM three times a week: Classic episodes Monday at 7 p.m., the Eastern Pennsylvania edition Wednesday at 6 p.m., and a Saturday morning repeat at 10.
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Bethlehem Owes $8 Million for the Hill to Hill Rebuild. Its Entire Capital Reserve Is $9 Million.
Bethlehem owes $8 million for the Hill to Hill rebuild. The city's entire capital reserve is $9.1 million, it has pledged not to borrow until 2030, and the project appears nowhere in its budget. The bridge is worth building. So how is it getting paid for?
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Bethlehem Cut Opioid Prevention to Nothing. Then It Bought Vending Machines.
Did you vote for this? Bethlehem’s opioid prevention budget went from $126,220 to $1,978 to nothing at all. In the same stretch the city handed out 6,209 naloxone kits and put two dispensing machines in a library and a parking garage. No hearing. No line item. No vote. Then it refused four firefighters over $11.42 a household.
