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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At a school board meeting Tuesday, superintendent Jaime Vlasaty defended the decision not to allow the after-school Satan club to meet on campus, saying the group violated district rules. -
20-year-old Ceu Uk, of Charlotte, allegedly threatened a shooting in the Saucon Valley School District in response to an after-school Satan club being allowed to meet on district property.
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Lower Saucon Township residents opposing the landfill expansion who received party status are permitted to ask questions of witnesses, present evidence, make arguments, and are allowed to participate in an appeal.
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Members of the city's Dominican community gathered to raise the Dominican flag over Allentown City Hall on Sunday. The city counts roughly 20,000 Dominicans as residents — nearly one out of every six people.
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The 1780 register was last seen by historians more than 160 years ago, and was thought to have been lost. Here's what we can learn from it.
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Bethlehem's Zoning Hearing Board voted to allow the project at a meeting Wednesday night
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The Zoning Hearing Board pushed the hearing to April, giving time for the Planning Commission to finalize its response to the project.
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Karen Britt is a professor of business at Northampton Community College and the founder of Juneteenth Lehigh Valley.
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The council signed off on a new incentive to develop "deteriorated" parts of South Side Bethlehem, plus a raise for shift supervisors at the Juvenile Justice Center.
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Members of the council's Finance Committee criticized County Executive Lamont McClure's handling of the studies they requested last year. He threatened to walk out.
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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.
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The Hotel Bethlehem's ice cream parlor Sunday debuted the Ryan Crookham sundae, named after a Lehigh University wrestler. The hotel signed a name, image and likeness deal with the wrestler last month.
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The Lehigh Northampton Airport Authority received more than $40 million in federal funding earlier this week for a new cargo terminal at Lehigh Valley International Airport. New details about the project emerged Thursday.
