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Pennsylvania not trying to lure vacationers from Jersey shore
With many of its beaches devastated by Hurricane Sandy last fall, New Jersey is getting support from neighboring state tourism agencies as it launches its summer season this weekend. Instead of trying to attract some of the 59 million tourists who...Tags: Ocean City, Marketing, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Tourism and Leisure, Travel
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From death row, Freemansburg cop killer fights foreclosure
George Hitcho Jr. may be on death row for killing a Freemansburg police officer, but he'd like to have a home to return to if he ever gets out. Facing mortgage foreclosure on the New Street property where he shot Robert A. Lasso in the back of the head...
Tags: Northampton (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Freemansburg, Criminal Laws, Financial and Business Services, Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania)
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Cicadas slowly making a return
Local insect lovers have been waiting patiently for a crop of 17-year cicadas to emerge in the Lehigh Valley region, but so far the little red-eyed critters have stayed put beneath the soil. With the notable exception of Roger Danielson's neighborhood...
Tags: Northampton (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Carbon County, Allentown, Staten Island (New York City), Dauphin County
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Wall Street posts first weekly loss since mid-April on Fed angst
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - The S&P 500 declined for a third day on Friday, with the three major stock indexes posting their first negative week since mid-April on lingering concern that the central bank may scale back its stimulus measures to support the...Tags: priceline.com Inc., Warren Buffett, Skin Cancer, France, New Corporation Limited
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Mary F. Hewes, homemaker and activist
Mary F. Hewes, a former newspaper reporter and longtime Charles Village resident, died May 16 from cancer at Mount Pleasant Hospice. She was 81. The daughter of a real estate broker and a homemaker, the former Mary Frances McClatchy was born and...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Charles Village, Woodstock Festival (1969), Newspaper and Magazine
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U.S. states support NJ with hands-off approach to luring tourists
ReutersHARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - New Jersey, which launched the start of its summer season on Friday after many of its beaches were devastated by Superstorm Sandy last year, is getting support from neighboring state tourist agencies. Instead of...Tags: Ocean City, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Marketing, Travel, Tourism and Leisure
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Allentown's fiscal problems are bad, but Harrisburg's are even worse
Allentown has a $200 million red ink problem, which, it seems, is the fault of any city politician not currently in office, and a population of 118,000 as of the 2010 census. That $200 million, split 118,000 ways, comes to less than $1,700 per person....
Tags: Bankruptcy, Elections, Ed Pawlowski, Primaries, Local Elections
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PASSINGS: Bernard Waber
Bernard Waber, 91, the author of such children's favorites as "The House on East 88th Street" and "Lyle, Lyle Crocodile," died Thursday at his Long Island, N.Y., home after a long illness, according to a statement from his publisher, Houghton Mifflin...Tags: University of Pennsylvania, Long Island, Upper East Side, Arts and Culture, Book
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Lower Nazareth church celebrates 250 years
The elegant Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church is in its 250th year, older than the nation. It's been serving a certain segment of the Christian community in and around Lower Nazareth Township for all that time, and the people in charge there today...
Tags: Entertainment, Religion and Belief, Christianity, Muhlenberg College, Simsbury
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Readers offer solutions to persistent problems
I get the impression that there are a lot of untrustworthy cats in this country from the number of remedies submitted to me on combating urine odors. Here's a step-by-step from reader Ed Zoller in Jacksonville, Fla.: If the area is carpeted, remove...Tags: Jacksonville (Duval, Florida)
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Awards and honors for Lehigh Valley residents
Jaehyun Park, a graduating senior at Moravian Academy, was named one of approximately 550 semifinalists in the 2013 U.S. Presidential Scholars Program. The semifinalists were selected from more than 3,900 candidates on the basis of superior achievements,...Tags: Technology, Human Interest, Easton (Northampton, Pennsylvania), Engineering, Students
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Ruth Thomas
Ruth Butterfield Thomas, died on Wednesday, May 8, 2013. She was born Nov. 20, 1925, in Evansville, Ind., where she grew up and attended Bosse High School. In 1943, she went to DePauw University and then Purdue University graduating with a B.S. in 1947....
Tags: Boston, Melbourne, Pompano Beach, Purdue University, Macular Degeneration
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May 16, 2013
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