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                Contributed/Lehigh Valley Community Foundation and United Way of the Greater Lehigh ValleyIn the Lehigh Valley, 105,000 people rely on SNAP benefits for food assistance. One in four of them is a child. When federal safety nets falter, the charitable food network becomes the community’s last line of defense. It requires collaboration, leadership and shared purpose.
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                Courtesy/Lehigh UniversityAlice P. Gast led Lehigh University from 2006 to 2014. She died at age 67 after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
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                        The holiday market is back with a bigger ice skating rink, a visit from Santa and new food.
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                        Topgolf and the Lehigh Valley Town Center were discussed at Tuesday's Lower Macungie Township Planning Commission meeting, seeking waivers and granting a procedural approval.
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                        It is still a sellers’ market when it comes to home buying, according to the Greater Lehigh Valley Realtors October report.
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                        The Lehigh Valley Planning Commission's comprehensive planning committee on Tuesday reviewed plans for several area projects, including development of the former Allentown State Hospital site.
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                        The city is seeing a revenue increase and decline in expenses. The mayor also has ideas for some of the remaining ARPA funding.
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                        Giant, based in Carlisle, Cumberland County, currently employs more than 1,400 people in its seven Lehigh County stores.
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                        Members of United Auto Workers Local 677 at Mack Trucks in the Allentown area have been on strike since Oct. 9. This week they'll vote on what the union negotiating committee has called the company's last, best and final offer.
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                        The Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce annual meeting attracted about 1,000 at Wind Creek Event Center Thursday afternoon.The event brought together members of the business community — colleagues, customers and competitors — to celebrate their collective mission of making the region a better place to work and live.
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                        Even with 1,500 turkeys donated from a local grocery chain, some families in the Lehigh Valley will go without thanksgiving dinner.
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                        Players league wide are complaining about Major League Baseball's new uniforms, particularly the see-through pants. The uniforms were manufactured by Fanatics' facilities in Easton.
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                        Wyatt Selzer gives back to the local community in any way he knows how — as long as it is within walking distance, he said. Now, a local business in Nazareth is determined to give the young man a new set of wheels.
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                        Three industrial buildings in Upper Macungie have plans to expand: Americold Logistics' cold storage warehouse, XPO Logistics' trucking terminal and ATAS International's manufacturing facility.
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                        While there is no news on future expansions, chamber members praised the CEO and heard an emotional take on her journey.
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                        Lehigh Valley International Airport's plans for a hotel are moving forward, with changes that include more rooms up for consideration by the Lehigh Valley Planning Commission.
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                        Crews checked off another milestone on Tuesday when they finished connecting the tilted loop on Dorney Park's new Iron Menace roller coaster. The loop is the first of its kind on a dive coaster.
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                        Local business panel, networking strategies, discounts on art and more — it takes place from 5-7 p.m. Thursday at Asante African Art in Palmer Park Mall.
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                        LANTA and UGI Energy Services have signed a three-year deal that will provide the transportation authority with compressed natural gas collected from landfills in eastern Pennsylvania.
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                        Sen. Bob Casey and Rep. Susan Wild visited Lehigh Valley International Airport Tuesday, highlighting a federal grant to build new air cargo infrastructure.
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                        PPL has moved into Two City Center at Seventh and Hamilton streets, and the building will soon change the Truist sign to a PPL sign.
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                        Closed after a small fire on Feb. 3, McCarthy's Red Stag Pub and Whiskey Bar held a limited reopening Monday evening.
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                        Bell Hall, a gourmet burger bar that opened its doors in October 2015, is listed as “permanently closed” on Google.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
