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Don't let travel clubs take you for a ride
Memorial Day is here, and summer vacation season soon will be in full swing. I don't have to tell you how expensive vacations can be. If you're like me, you're always looking for ways to cut the cost without reducing the fun. If you think joining a...Tags: Lawyers, Whitehall, Travel Deals, Business, Montgomery County (Pennsylvania)
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Feds seek to stop misleading letters to businesses
Last month, I warned about misleading letters being sent to businesses from an outfit called Pennsylvania Corporate Compliance. The letters instructed businesses to fill out an "annual meeting disclosure statement" listing their corporate officers, and...Tags: Realty, Business, Government Postal Delivery, Media Industry, Aaron Williams and Hoodoo
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Truck lanes on I-78 will give cars a pass
Q: A recent article described planned safety improvements to I-78 around the Krumsville interchange. The work will include truck lanes that slow-moving tractor-trailers could use to allow cars to pass safely. That's great, but I must wonder if PennDOT...
Tags: Vehicles, Allentown, Macungie, Sean Brown, Science and Technology
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Fish, deer are turning on with cooler temperatures
About 30 people showed up mid-morning on Wednesday at Kaercher Creek Lake in eastern Berks County to check out the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission in action. Mike Kaufmann, the Area 6 fisheries manager for the PFBC, and fish biologist Greg Murphy...
Tags: Orefield, Nazareth, Hellertown, Allentown, Jim Thorpe
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New life for former Circuit City building
The bankruptcy and closing of several hundred Circuit City stores in late 2008 dealt a serious blow to the nation's already weak retail scene. The Great Recession had forced the extinction of several chains in the Lehigh Valley, including Tweeter and...
Tags: Realty, Whitehall, South Whitehall Township, Lifestyle and Leisure, Foods and Beverages
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Pennsylvania Game Commission to have public working group session
With the fall quarterly meetings of the Pennsylvania Game Commission scheduled for Franklin, Venango County on Sept. 24-25, getting there may be a problem for most of us in the eastern half of the state. But Ralph A. Martone, the president of the PGC's...Tags: Politics, Wildlife, Lifestyle and Leisure, Rabies, Allentown
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Summer wouldn't be summer without paving scams
If someone shows up at your home unannounced with a load of asphalt and a special price to pave your driveway, don't let yourself be rolled over. Authorities in the Lehigh Valley area are investigating several situations involving solicitations from...Tags: Whitehall, Theft, Allentown, Business, Companies and Corporations
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Bookstore chain bucking trend
Some say bookstores are on the brink of extinction, along with video and music stores, as consumers migrate to the digital world. Sure, there's plenty of evidence along those lines, now that mega-bookstore chains Borders and Waldenbooks are history....
Tags: Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Kmart, Personal Service, Whitehall, Petroleum Industry
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Lehigh River to get more whitewater, fishery releases this summer
Lehigh River enthusiasts have reason to celebrate. The U.S. ArmyCorps Engineers Philadelphia District announced has announced that there will be an additional whitewater release from Francis E. Walter Dam in White Haven, Luzerne County, on Aug. 25, as...
Tags: Seafood and Fishing Industry, Northampton (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Cherryville, Martins Creek, Lifestyle and Leisure
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At Phoebe Ministries, an eggnog riot
At Christmas in 1826, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point endured one of its great scandals, a whiskey-fueled rampage known as the Eggnog Riot. It resulted in the court-martialing of 20 cadets, though not the best-known one — Jefferson Davis,...
Tags: Allentown, Appetizers, West Point, U.S. Military
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Macungie Brittany wins national dog title
A local male Brittany spaniel officiallly named "Hits All Jack'd Up" completed a rare repeat last month. The dog, owned by Joe Sikorski and Claire Ricci of Macungie, became just the fourth dog in history to win consecutive ABC National Gun Dog...Tags: Northampton (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Lifestyle and Leisure, Wildlife, Slatington, Schuylkill County
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Barn owl banding opened to public for first time
Alex Gren couldn't believe her luck. The rising Penn State senior from Zionsville, a graduate of Emmaus High School, took advantage last week of being one of the first people in the state to witness a public banding of barn owls. "I helped volunteer with...
Tags: Moravian College, Forests, The Pennsylvania State University, Wildlife, Bally
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