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BETHLEHEM, Pa.- Freshpet is expanding its footprint in the Lehigh Valley. The pet food maker is leasing a new 216,000-square-foot warehouse on the former Bethlehem Steel property off of I-78. According to a joint news release from J.G. Petrucci Company and BGO Cold Chain, Freshpet will use the building at...

LOWER NAZARETH TWP., Pa. - A construction materials and equipment supplier has established its first distribution center on the East Coast, and it's in the Lehigh Valley. White Cap Supply Holdings recently celebrated the grand opening of its new facility at 4770 Hanoverville Rd. in Lower Nazareth Township. The company.

Bucks County poll workers will open 304 precincts on Nov. 3, and in Yardley, the Lower Bucks borough that sits against the Delaware, that means one room: the Yardley-Makefield Fire Company on South Main Street, the only polling place the borough has. Bristol Borough sends two of its northern districts into the same bui

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - The Allentown Planning Commission continued preliminary/final land development approval for a mixed-use property Tuesday afternoon at city hall. The applicant, Real Star Properties LLC, is proposing a 132-unit apartment building, hotel, event center along with 8,800 square feet of retail space at 300-3

The Lehigh Township Board of Supervisors meeting on July 28 opened with an officer pinning ceremony. The rest of the time was largely devoted to public comment, particularly on the matter of the land preservation effort. First, Brett Bindics was sworn in as the township’s newest permanent patrol officer, after...

A woman who fled to Belize after abandoning over 100 animals at a Bucks County farm, leaving them to starve and allowing several to die, has pleaded guilty to multiple charges of animal cruelty. Abigail Tuttle O’Keeffe, 55, the former owner of Narrow Way Farm on Worthington Mill Road in...

Police in Bucks County have issued a warrant for a New Jersey man who they said took part in a disturbing trend called “gooning” at a Morrisville Dollar Tree last week, by exposing himself to an 18-year-old.

Lehigh Valley Zoo’s newest resident, Fritz, is making history as the first African penguin chick hatched at the zoo in more than nine years. Born May 8, Fritz shares the same hatch date as his mother, Bahati, who was the last penguin chick born at the zoo in 2017. The male chick, named by the Jaindl family, sponsors of

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - A Bethlehem man who shot a woman in the city learned his sentence Monday. Allen Jahmell Grimes, 20, was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in state prison, followed by five years of state probation, the Northampton County District Attorney’s Office said in a news release.

The Velvet Raven, new to Main Street, held its grand opening July 24 with an official ribbon-cutting on the noon hour coordinated by the Downtown Bethlehem Association. The retail shop offering LEGO kits, tabletop board and card games, puzzles, hobby assembly kits, 3D puzzles and other adventure kinds of gifts has grow