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                Matt Rourke/AP PhotoHere's all you need to know about the 2025 general election in the Lehigh Valley, where scores of local races are on the ballot — including county and municipal offices, plus school boards and Pennsylvania Supreme Court retention questions getting an unusual amount of attention.
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                Stephanie Sigafoos/LehighValleyNews.comEric Dowdle led Lehigh County’s prosecution against two former Allentown vice officers before state attorneys took over those cases.
 
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                        The 10th annual Luncheon with the Authors, a fundraiser of Society of the Arts – the nonprofit organization supporting the Allentown Art Museum, was held Thursday at Lehigh Country Club in Lower Macungie Township.
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                        Some of the money will be used to purchase new breathing equipment for firefighters.
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                        The monkeypox outbreak has similarities to the HIV epidemic in the 1980s, but how do the two compare? Lehigh Valley health experts weigh in on how the viruses differ.
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                        A tractor trailer truck helped herd a group of about a dozen escaped goats safely back home in Macungie last week.
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                        Lehigh County is sitting on $1.7 million for opioid abuse treatment. And millions more are on the way.
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                        Franklin Graham, son of the late evangelist Billy Graham, is hosting an event at the Allentown Fairgrounds with Christian rock band Newsboys and artist Marcos Witt.
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                        Lehigh County is committed to keeping the IronPigs at Coca Cola Park and may be prepared to present an additional $3 million to help the organization afford needed stadium upgrades.
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                        The Lehigh watershed has among the highest amounts of chemicals linked to reproductive health issues and cancer released into it in the country, according to anenvironmental advocacy group.
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                        The decision drew cheers and applause from a crowd of roughly one hundred people gathered, but township supervisors could overrule the recommendation.
 
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                        Some insects like mosquitos are thriving later in the season as temperatures reach well into the 70s.
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                        Candidates reach out to potential voters by going door-to-door and hosting listening sessions.
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                        Conflict and tension have ramped up at school board meetings amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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                        'There's a lot of misinformation,' says county official over a lawsuit that alleges a dispatcher hung up on a caller in distress.
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                        The Republican candidate for Lehigh County executive, Glenn Eckhart, says there is no point in asking current Executive and Democratic candidate Phil Armstrong to resign right now over the recent federal lawsuit in which Armstrong is named.
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                        Three Hispanic candidates are on the Republican ticket for Lehigh County commissioner.
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                        Roughly one in 10 people in the Valley rely on monthly food bank visits, the United Way says.
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                        The Allentown man who placed the 911 call was among two people who died in a house fire in July 2020.
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                        A recently filed federal lawsuit claims dispatchers at local 911 call centers drank alcohol, slept, and watched movies on the clock.
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                        Second Harvest Food Bank ordered food months in advance to keep food pantry shelves filled.
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                        Another vaccine mandate deadline is approaching for employees of one Lehigh Valley health system.
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                        The low-impact sport is a cross between tennis, ping pong and badminton.