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                Courtesy/Second Harvest Facebook PageThe United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley and the Lehigh Valley Community Foundation have launched a $500,000 fundraising campaign to strengthen food access and deliver rapid relief to families in need.
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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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                        With residents packing council chambers, Easton's Zoning Hearing Board denied a proposal for a nine building, 412-unit apartment facility near the Forks Township border.
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                        Members of United Auto Workers Local 667 have voted nearly unanimously to authorize a strike against Mack Truck Lehigh Valley if a new contract is not reached by Oct. 1.
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                        Lehigh Valley's Long-Range Transportation Plan got its first scutiny at a meeting at the Lehigh Valley Planning Commission on Monday. The project is a $5.36 billion investment in more than 500 road, bridge, trail and transit projects throughout the Lehigh Valley over the next 25 years.
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                        LV Print Center in Allentown produces millions of political materials every election cycle, mostly for Democratic candidates. Their work has been used at every local, from local school board candidates to President Joe Biden, according to owners Maggie Wert and Ervin Fetherman.
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                        A developer wants to put warehouses covering more than a million square feet at the former Mack Trucks assembly plant, but it needs more time to finalize those plans.
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                        City planning officials want Blackstone Structures to reconsider or redesign some aspects of its Edison Lofts West proposal.
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                        Over a thousand employees from businesses and groups throughout the region volunteered thousands of hours of labor to assist nonprofits and community projects throughout the Lehigh Valley for United Way.
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                        The August report from the Greater Lehigh Valley Realtors shows a drop in new listings and closings. The median sale price for the month reached $336,500.
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                        Ayat, the Lehigh Valley's first Palestinian restaurant, welcomes diners to savor authentic Palestinian cuisines such as hummus, laffa and mashawy.
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                        A “bold, thoughtful” mural is the goal — one that honors the area’s food culture, farmers and residents themselves, according to co-op General Manager Eric Shamis who recently shared the latest with WLVR's Brad Klein.
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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.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
