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Donna S. Fisher/For LehighValleyNews.comA Lehigh County judge will soon decide whether to throw out potentially key evidence in the prosecution of a former Parkland High School administrator. -
Courtesy/Parkland School DistrictParkland High School teachers reported suspected misconduct by ex-performing arts administrator Frank Anonia more than a decade before his arrest on charges of secretly recording a student in a dressing room, a former teacher testified. Anonia is due in court for a criminal trial this week.
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Three South Whitehall Township Zoning Hearing Board members cannot attend meetings in the coming months, so the board appointed a hearing officer. It will allow the board to legally meet a required quorum. -
South Whitehall Twp. commissioners are seeking applicants for vacant alternate seats on the Zoning Hearing Board.
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Longtime former board member Robert Bold served as board president five times and vice president three times. He would fill the vacancy created by state Sen. Jarrett Coleman's resignation.
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The sprawling plan in South Whitehall touches on infrastructure and future development in a township that has seen contentious debate over its future in recent years
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This development comes six years after voters in South Whitehall voted to allow the township to borrow $600,000 to repair the dam.
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South Whitehall Township's Board of Commissioners approved the 2023 budget after making minor changes to the draft budget at their meeting Wednesday.
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The Parkland School Board stopped short of committing to advertising to fill the vacant seat of Jarrett Coleman, who was elected to the state Senate.
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State Senator-elect Jarrett Coleman had previously said he was not going to resign his school board position.
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KidsPeace received more than a thousand gifts during its 11th annual Angel Tree holiday gift drive. The gifts will go to more than 200 kids in the organization’s residential treatment and foster care programs.
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A representative of the owner of the King George Inn property addressed the delay in the property’s redevelopment at the latest board of commissioners meeting. The three-story stone structure dates to the 1700s, but has been renovated over the years as it was used for various businesses.
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Police blocked off the entrances to the plaza, onlookers say, but the public was never in danger, according to a press release about the incident.
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Parkland High School will perform in Philadelphia's Thanksgiving Day Parade for the first time in the school's history. The parade is the oldest in the country, dating back to 1920.
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Newly-elected Lehigh Valley State Sen. Jarett Coleman has dropped a lawsuit he filed last year against the Parkland School District that sought to invalidate teacher pay raises. The trial over Sunshine Act breaches was scheduled to take place this week.
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The USDA report does not include information about which commercial turkey farms were affected, but Jaindl recently reported an outbreak of the disease.
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ALDI opened its newest location at 3235 Hamilton Blvd. in South Whitehall Township Thursday.
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RDM Group presented a sketch plan for a 49,320 square foot warehouse at the Upper Macungie Township planning commission meeting.
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Seeing Eye puppies are bred to be guide dogs for their blind future handler, and in order to do their jobs, they need to be exposed to as many different environments as possible — including the inside of an ambulance.
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Michael Wolk resigned from South Whitehall's Board of Commissioners because of his family's decision to relocate.
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Republican Jarrett Coleman will replace longtime incumbent Pat Browne as Pennsylvania's 16th District state senator.
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The biggest expenditure in the proposed budget is township building renovations, including renovations to the municipal building.
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Shankweiler's, the country's oldest drive-in theatre located in Orefield, is under new ownership. It will resume its 2022 season this month, with a grand reopening planned for the spring.
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Upper Macungie Township’s proposed 2023 budget does not change the real estate tax. It does includes a $15 increase to the refuse and recycling rate.
