Third-graders, from left, Gemma Bozzi, 8, and Elizabeth Lozinger, 8, both of Bangor, play with Alexandrea Stump, 5, of East Bangor, during an Immaculate Conception School open house in Pen Argyl.
The 137th District in the state House comprises Palmer, Forks, Upper Mount Bethel, Lower Mount Bethel, Upper Nazareth and Washington townships and Bangor, East Bangor, Nazareth, Portland, Roseto, Stockertown and Tatamy boroughs.
An East Bangor man accused of a slew of Slate Belt burglaries plans to plead guilty to nine criminal charges that will almost certainly land him in state prison.
Meet Robert Melton, a sophisticated type wearing a sharp suit. He's sitting in the Lehigh County Government Center's public hearing room Friday and he's just been crowned the newest inspector of elections in Allentown's 17th Ward -- wait, hang on a second, he's checking -- oh yes, 2nd District.
Residents of Bangor and East Bangor who live near an abandoned slate quarry used to dispose of coal ash learned this week that RRI Energy -- the utility that operates the quarry and the Portland generating station -- has received state and federal clearances in terms of keeping heavy metals out of local water supplies.