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Aryash Shyam, a rising eighth-grader at Lehigh Valley Academy Regional Charter School, created the GreenBeam to kill weeds with a laser. The project got him named the Pennsylvania State Merit Winner in the 2025 3M Young Scientist Challenge.

The colorful mural on the side of the building at 313 Broadway, across from Ideal Food Basket, is a reminder to eat nutritiously.

The state Office of Open Records has ordered the Allentown School District to release records connected to BusPatrol, the contractor responsible for administering the district’s stop-arm camera enforcement program.

A former Easton Area High School resource officer who pleaded guilty to sending a sexually explicit image of himself to a 16-year-old female student in 2024 was sentenced to 9-to-24 months in Northampton County Prison, it was announced on Wednesday.

The Trump administration announced in late June that it would not pay out more than $6 billion allocated through six grant programs created by Congress. For Parkland School District, that works out to $410,000 in lost funding.

Wilson Area High School Principal John Martuscelli soon will have a bit more time on his hands to focus on his grandson and his golf game.

A previous estimate for the proposed 1-million-square-foot warehouse shows the district would receive around $5 million from the property over 10 years with LERTA in effect.

As a key early vote approaches, several East Penn school board members again raised concerns Monday over plans to realign its middle grades, and how much the project will cost.

There are free summer meal sites for kids throughout the Lehigh Valley funded through the Summer Food Service Program.

Two local state representatives co-sponsored House Bill 17, which passed out of the chamber last month. It was referred to the state Senate's education committee for further review.

The third-largest school district in Pa. is launching its first esports team.

Delaware County school district asserts its under-funding violates the state constitution.

Some say the way the state distributes money to small school districts is not equitable.

Keeping kids in school is a challenge as wages rise.

The threat does not appear to be credible, Easton school officials said.

Some routes on some days can expect to arrive at school or home up to 90 minutes late.

Individual school districts must now decide if their students will mask or not.

Nearly 87 percent of cases in the middle and high schools are in students who haven't been vaccinated.

The ruling comes as COVID-19 case counts and hospitalizations rise dramatically in Pennsylvania.

BASD Superintendent Joseph Roy is concerned that growing cases throughout the community are causing the number of school cases to grow.

Arguments before the Pa. Supreme Court will begin Dec. 8 but it is unknown when the decision will come down.

An appeal by the Wolf administration put a court order to end the mandate on hold.