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Week in review: May 14-20, 2023

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BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Welcome back to our Week in Review. We have chosen several stories, in no particular order, to take you back on the week. Test your knowledge of these stories and more from this week with our weekly news quiz. Enjoy, and thank you so much for reading.

1. Full Lehigh Valley 2023 primary election roundup

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Two Senate District races still have candidates neck-in-neck. Photo by Element5 Digital from Pexels

2. Missing Whitehall voting machine found locked in a closet with Christmas tree

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Voting machines are at the center of a state Senate inquiry. (Photo | WLVR)

3. WATCH AGAIN: Looking back on the 4-year anniversary of Martin Tower’s implosion

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Martin Tower implodes on May 19, 2019

4. Funeral Mass held for Bishop Emeritus Edward P. Cullen

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Ceremonies of Reception of the Body and Visitation for The Most Reverend Edward Peter Cullen, D.D., third Bishop of Allentown, were held at the Cathedral of Saint Catharine of Siena, Allentown, on Thursday, May 18, 2023. Photography by Donna Fisher

5. Surviving trauma: How one man came close to death and lived to tell about it

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Northampton resident Matthew Urban in a hospital bed following a near fatal crash.

6. Pulling a plane: Special Olympics athletes kick-off fundraiser by towing aircraft

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7. Lehigh Valley passenger rail project chugging along; update set for October

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A new study will review the potential of rail travel from the Lehigh Valley to New York, Philadelphia and Harrisburg.

8. Silk in the Valley: Exhibit explores the shimmering fabric's ties to Bethlehem

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On display at the Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts is a parachute dress circa World War II on loan to the museum by Megan Miller.