Ryan Gaylor
Northampton County reporterI’m LehighValleyNews.com’s Northampton County reporter. Before moving to Easton in September of 2022, I reported on state government and hosted All Things Considered for KGOU, Oklahoma City’s NPR station.
In 2021, I graduated from the University of Oklahoma with dual degrees in dramaturgy and journalism. Outside of the newsroom, I love listening to podcasts, bothering my dog, seeing theatre, and helping my friends write plays. Contact me at RyanG@lehighvalleynews.com or 610-984-8208.
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Northampton County Council rejected a planned health clinic for county employees last July. On Wednesday, officials asked the body to approve the same plans. -
The Promenade Shops at Saucon Valley announced Monday they are adopting a new, simpler name.
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In his State of the City address Thursday, Bethlehem mayor J. William Reynolds said the city is in its best financial shape since Bethlehem Steel closed decades ago.
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Gateway on Fourth — a new mixed-income housing project on Fourth Street in South Bethlehem — will bring 120 apartments to part of the city long slated for redevelopment, officials said.
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Hanover Twp., Northampton County's board of supervisors approved a 144-bed behavioral health hospital built and operated by Lehigh Valley Health Network and health care behemoth Universal Health Services.
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Northampton County's standard pre-election testing of voting machines drew new scrutiny Monday, as officials seek to avoid another election rattled by machine errors.
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Ahead of the Banana Factory's scheduled demolition next year, ArtsQuest is selling some of the odds and ends accumulated there over the years. The goal was never to make money, one official said.
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Easton officials asked Northampton County Council to extend a LERTA redevelopment incentive program to cover nine new properties, and extend the program for 82 others.
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A $900,000 grant to ArtsQuest and the City of Bethlehem will improve pedestrian infrastructure around the nonprofit's Banana Factory complex on Third Street.
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After an issue with Northampton County's voting machines disrupted November's general election, the battery of tests designed to make sure equipment works has drawn new scrutiny.
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Northampton County Executive Lamont McClure announced Monday he approved the county's 2024 budget, leaving in place amendments made by the County Council last week.
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Former Hellertown Borough Police Chief Robert Shupp appeared in court Monday, charged with 18 counts for to allegedly taking $122,000 in borough funds.
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The Black Diamond Society of Model Engineers opens up its Bethlehem building each winter, sharing it passion and love for model trains with the Lehigh Valley. Sunday was one of those days.
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Northampton County Council voted Thursday to adopt a 2024 budget that keeps property taxes flat.
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The Upper Nazareth Township Board of Supervisors Wednesday voted against rezoning land for a new industrial park next to Nazareth Area Intermediate School. Representatives for the developer said they may try again in the future.
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Blessed Trinity Lutheran Church, formed by the merger of three Lutheran congregations in Bethlehem earlier this year, has found a building for its permanent home by combining with yet another congregation.
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At a community meeting Tuesday night, First Presbyterian Church Bethlehem asked community members to help imagine what the housing development proposed for their campus should look like — with the help of Monopoly pieces.
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First Presbyterian Church Bethlehem is planning to build new mixed-income housing on its 32-acre Center Street campus. Church leaders and members say the project is a reflection of the congregation's identity — and it wouldn't have happened but for 'painful' recent history.
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Museum Store Sunday gives the nonprofit shops attached to cultural institutions a spot in the post-Thanksgiving shopping calendar. Three Lehigh Valley museums are joining in.
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At a gathering of Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley's Women's Philanthropy group in Allentown, volunteers made bracelets for a fundraiser supporting Israel, and one former Lehigh Valley resident described her own experiences on Oct. 7.
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John Derwin Bradley, charged with killing 16-year-old Rianna Lynn Glass and Rosalyn Siobal Glass, her 39-year-old mother, appeared in a Northampton County courtroom Thursday afternoon.
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With a contentious presidential election on the horizon, Northampton County officials are working with their voting machine contractor to prevent errors like those in Tuesday's general election.
