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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The League of Women Voters of the Lehigh Valley organized a forum Monday for all six candidates funning for the Parkland School Board. It was held at the Univest Public Media Center in Bethlehem.
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Northampton County Council voted down a measure Thursday that would have required administrators to seek the council's approval before spending money on planned satellite voting offices in Bethlehem and Washington Township.
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Northampton County Executive Lamont McClure released his proposal Thursday for the 2026 county budget. The proposal keeps taxes flat.
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Northampton County human services workers, members of SEIU Local 668, gathered outside the human services building in Bethlehem Township on Friday to denounce a possible department-wide furlough next month.
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North Whitehall Township officials Thursday celebrated the completion of a 14-month, $6 million overhaul of the township's municipal building.
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North Whitehall Township supervisors soon will vote on revised plans for The Ridings at Parkland Phase II, a 44-home subdivision set to take shape near Spruce Street and Timber Lane.
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After more than a year of negotiations between the developer and a county authority, Northampton County Council is preparing to decide whether a project to build 405 apartments in the former Dixie Cup building in Wilson will get a $26 million property tax break.
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A Northampton County Council candidate called for "civility and compassion" Monday in response to screenshots that appear to show a Northampton County Council member and Easton School District nurse administrator write that conservative activist Charlie Kirk's family is better off since he was assassinated.
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Lehigh County officials gathered Friday to celebrate the finish of structural steel work on a new building at the county-run Cedarbrook nursing home. Officials initially hoped the building would be open by now.
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Plainfield Township's board of supervisors voted Wednesday to exempt landfills from steep slope rules to allow Grand Central Landfill to expand. The body voted down a measure allowing dumps by right in the township's waste processing zone.
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Huaxia Lehigh Valley, a Mandarin-language school based at Northampton Community College, marked Chinese New Year Sunday.
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An audit of the Northampton County Conservation District did not turn up any signs of trouble, officials announced Wednesday. It won't end debate over whether county officials were mishandling district funds.
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It seemed Lehigh Valley residents were handling Tuesday's snow with some resignation, but also without too much concern.
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A Super Bowl Sunday tradition in Easton for more than 25 years, the chili cookoff held by Pearly Baker's Alehouse crowned a new set of winners Sunday.
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'I was waiting to see like everyone else': How Northampton County Council's newest member was chosenNorthampton County's newest member, Jeffrey Corpora, was appointed to the body Wednesday afternoon. Corpora said even he is not exactly sure how he was selected.
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Northampton County Judge Craig Dally appointed Nazareth resident Jeffrey Corpora, a retired Easton Area School District teacher, to county council Tuesday.
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ArtsQuest's annual Souper Bowl brought hundreds to the SteelStacks campus a week before the big game. The contest pitted Lehigh Valley chefs and caterers against one another for bragging rights to the Lehigh Valley's best soup.
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Northampton County Council voted Thursday not to repeal a LERTA tax incentive for much of Upper Mount Bethel Township's industrial land, set to become an industrial park.
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Three members of Northampton County Council and the body's attorney appeared before a judge Friday with opposing requests for the court to appoint a new member to the body.
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The Northampton County Council voted Thursday to ask a judge to fill the body's open seat after 12 votes and hours of debate ended in deadlock.
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Northampton County officials touted their Fake is Real campaign, aimed at curbing fentanyl overdoses, on Wednesday, one year after first announcing the program.
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Speaking at OraSure Technology's Bethlehem Township facility Tuesday, Governor Josh Shapiro laid out an expansive plan to reinvigorate economic development in the Commonwealth.