Forks Township woman vows to protect votes in new safe voting campaign
Forks Township Elections Judge Susan Glovas is featured in a TV commercial being shown statewide to assure Pennsylvania residents the voting process is safe.
View ArticleRetail Watch: Savor comfort food and fall’s beauty at new Thunderhead Lodge,...
Thunderhead Lodge, specializing in made-from-scratch American comfort food such as meatloaf, macaroni and cheese and turkey pot pie, opened in the spring at the former Blue Mountain Summit Restaurant...
View Article372,000 rejected mail ballot requests in Pennsylvania? Why that’s good news
Column: A headline about 372,000 requests for mail ballots being rejected seems alarming. It’s actually reassuring, because it shows Pennsylvania’s voting system is working as intended.
View ArticleReaders React: This is our spiritual wake-up call
Reader: The government can’t save us; neither can science. But for those who love the Lord, there’s a greater hope.
View ArticlePhiladelphia, where "bad things happen,” looms large for Trump
When President Donald Trump told the world that “bad things happen in Philadelphia,” it was, in part, a blunt assessment of his party’s struggles in a city that routinely anchors Democratic victories...
View ArticleReaders React: The majority of Democrats are moderates
Reader: I want to remind a letter writer that we Democrats are not all liberal, socialist anti-Americans. The majority of us are moderates able to discuss both sides.
View ArticleMore than a million mail-in votes already cast in New Jersey
More than 1 million people have cast ballots already in New Jersey, or about 30% of the turnout in the 2016 presidential.
View ArticleJudge rejects Republican challenge of pop-up voting center outside Philly
An appellate court judge in Pennsylvania has turned down an emergency petition from Republicans seeking to block Delaware County from operating a three-day early voting center in the city of Chester.
View ArticleCockatoo valued at $3,200 stolen from Quakertown pet shop
Richland Township Police Department on Oct. 4 responded to Fins, Feathers, Paws & Claws, inside the Quakertown Farmers Market, for the report of a retail theft of a sulfur-crested cockatoo, valued...
View ArticleYour View: Be prepared for Pennsylvania election results to change as mail-in...
Op-ed: President Trump may declare victory after the first day’s result in Pennsylvania. Why you should not believe it.
View ArticlePile of live eels dumped in Brooklyn park could disturb ecosystem
The illegal release recently of live eels in a New York City park became a curiosity, but the dumping of exotic animals in urban parks isn’t new and has disturbed, local ecosystems.
View ArticlePennsylvania coronavirus update: Second highest case count of the pandemic...
Saturday’s coronavirus case count was the second highest total in Pennsylvania since the start of the pandemic, with 1,857 new cases reported by the state Department of Health.
View ArticleJailed in Pennsylvania? In most cases, you can still vote
Helping county jail inmates - who are almost always eligible to vote in Pennsylvania - exercise their right to take part in an election has long been the practice in the Lehigh Valley.
View ArticleReaders React: Senate should delay Supreme Court justice vote
Reader: As a Pennsylvanian Republican, I am shocked at the current Senate proceedings. We must wait until after the election to consider Supreme Court justice nominations.
View Article‘There’s a lemur!’ 5-year-old boy cracks San Francisco Zoo theft case
A 5-year-old boy who helped officials recapture a lemur stolen from the San Francisco Zoo, has been rewarded with a lifetime zoo membership.
View ArticlePence tells Reading crowd the path to victory ‘runs through Pennsylvania’
Vice President Mike Pence returned to the critical battleground state of Pennsylvania on Saturday, declaring President Donald Trump a champion of the “forgotten men and women of America” and blasting...
View ArticleMultiple crashes, Allentown police investigation jam traffic Saturday afternoon
The Lehigh Valley’s major arteries are jammed Saturday afternoon following multiple crashes and an Allentown police investigation on the Hamilton Street Bridge.
View ArticleEverything Pa. poll watchers can — and can’t — do on Election Day, explained
President Donald Trump called on his supporters to “go into the polls and watch very carefully.” But there are actually strict rules about poll watchers and what they can do.
View ArticleBethlehem’s ‘jewel of a golf course’ is drawing record numbers amid...
Bethlehem Golf Club, the city's municipal golf course, is being renovated into what one official calls a "jewel," drawing record numbers as golfers spend more time on the activity during the...
View ArticleIndoor adventure park, with go-karts, trampolines, climbing walls and more,...
An indoor adventure park – featuring go-karts, trampolines, climbing walls and more – is nearing completion in Lehigh County.
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