There’s a long-standing rule that two things you never talk about in polite circles are religion and politics.
On Monday night,a meeting of “Muslims and Christians United” broke that first rule.
More than 100 people attended the interfaith event, held at the Muslim Association of the Lehigh Valley in Whitehall Township, to better understand how the two faiths could share their spiritual quests, despite many differences.
The event entitled “What’s it Like to be Christian in America,” came after last month the group examined the Islamic faith in America.
Six members of the Wesley United Methodist Church in Bethlehem discussed their thoughts about Christianity...
One local police force is speeding ahead with faster technology.
The Palmer Township police are currently in the process of upgrading from 3G to 4G for their mobile data terminals. The upgrade will provide the force with a faster transfer of information to the [police] cars and also better access to their remote desktop unit.
4G provides GPS capability and also will allow for all the police data to be held on the remote desktop, which is located at the station. Currently, all the data resides on the mobile data terminals, which is less secure.
A residential request for more street signs on Norton Avenue in Palmer Township was granted Monday.
The Board of Supervisors approved two speed limit signs, one on each side of the road, to be placed on Norton Ave. west of Loomis Street.
The Traffic and Safety Committee, who recommended it to the board, reviewed the residents’ petition.
The residents of the street requested either a speed limit sign or a watch children sign to be placed on the road. Traffic gets heavy on the side street during the weekends when people try to divert from the local church traffic, officials said.
The Board of Supervisors approved a contract with architectural and engineering services for the proposed salt storage building Monday.
The building is expected to house salt for an entire winter
The funds, $7,910, will be coming from the 2012 liquid funds budget not the general funds of the township.
Currently any extra salt stored by Palmer is stored in bins behind the current salt building. The set-up is difficult for the township when snowstorms occur back to back.
Supervisor David Colver stated, “it’s the convenience of having [the salt storage building].” The new building will be 50’ by 72’ and will hold 1,700 tons...
Two men stand accused of defrauding local taxpayers out of more than $800,000.
Robert J. Kearns and Patrick J. McLaine were charged Monday with criminal conspiracy, a third degree felony, along with two related charges each.
Both men operated Municipal Energy Managers Inc., a Scranton-area company that was hired by Bethlehem Twp., Northampton Co., to privatize its streetlights.
The township signed a contract with MEM in July 2007 to help the municipality buy its street lights from PPL, said District Attorney John Moganelli. The plan was supposed to reduce the township's overall electricity bill.
Bethlehem Township paid MEM $832,460 up front, borrowing the money...
What's a Super Bowl party without wings?
At the Basin Street Hotel on Main Street in Kutztown, they were preparing to make thousands of wings on Sunday.
Owner David Huang said the restaurant goes through tons of wings throughout the night, with most of the orders coming in right before the big game.
And in Bethlehem, they were frying up the wings and getting the pizzas ready for party orders.
The folks at Lehigh Pizza on Third street in the city were busy throughout the afternoon.
They said a majority of their pizza orders came in around 4 p.m. and 5 p.m.
Bethlehem Township's money spent on personal items, DA says.
Two men hired by Bethlehem Township to privatize its streetlights as a cost-saving move spent most of the $832,000 paid to them on personal items and now face criminal charges after doing "almost no work" on the project, authorities said Monday.
Former sixth-grade teacher must register for life as a sex offender, judge rules.
A former Easton Area Middle School teacher caught with thousands of images of child pornography is a sexually violent predator who must register for life as a sex offender, a Northampton County judge decided Friday.
A Bucks County judge next week will review the proposed transfer of about 50 Riegelsville children from Easton Area School District to determine how much the district would need to be reimbursed.
Harold J. Moser, named last month in a search warrant probing the death of his brother-in-law, gets up to nine years.
A Bushkill Township man named in an ongoing suspicious death investigation was sentenced Friday for sexually abusing a 9-year-old girl and photographing her naked.
Jane Moyer of Forks still works at Historical and Genealogical Society.
Jane Moyer is navigating the stacks and vertical files of the Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society's small but well-stocked and well-maintained library in Easton's Sigal Museum.
A Bangor man who told police he "went buck-wild" and rammed into two parked cars and two women while driving a tow truck drunk during a fight outside an Allentown bar has agreed to a plea deal.
Paxinosa Elementary principal David Hightower claimed he was denied promotions because he is black.
Paxinosa Elementary School Principal David Hightower settled his racial discrimination lawsuit against Easton Area School District for $60,000 plus attorney fees, according to an agreement released by the district's lawyer.
But bill could be hung up because some Republicans want to link approval of extension to shoring up long-term solvency.
HARRISBURG — Legislation that would restart the flow of extended unemployment benefits for 17,000 jobless Pennsylvanians is headed for the House floor, but it could be in for a bumpy ride.
As the economic rebound picks up a bit of steam, Latinos are scoring bigger job gains than most other demographic groups and proving to be a bright spot in the fledgling recovery.
After scraping by on handyman jobs for a year, Bert Qintana figured he'd have to leave his wife and teenage son at their home near Taos, N.M., and find work elsewhere.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures pointed to a dip at the open on Wall Street on Tuesday, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0.06 percent, Dow Jones futures down 0.05 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures down 0.05 percent at 5:30 a.m. ET.
TOKYO/LONDON (Reuters) - Official investigations into a massive fraud at Japan's Olympus Corp are highly likely to lead to further revelations on the scandal soon, according to the firm's former chief executive, Michael Woodford, who blew the whistle on the affair.
This tip gives you the yummy taste without the high cost.
If you've got kids, they've probably asked you to make them a sandwich with peanut butter and Nutella, a popular spread made with cocoa and hazelnuts. It tastes like chocolate butter, so who wouldn't want some on their sandwich.
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