West Easton

Three people were displaced by a fire at 905 Palmer St., West Easton, today shortly before noon. No one was injured in the fire, which West Easton Safety First Fire Co, Chief William Bogari Jr. said was contained to a wall. The cause is under...

Two families were displaced by a fire at 905 Palmer St., West Easton, around noon Friday. No one was injured in the blaze, which West Easton Safety First Fire Company Chief William Bogari Jr. said was contained within a wall. The cause is under...

Flooding has closed sections of some roads in Northampton County, including Route 611 south in Easton between Nesquehoning and S. Third streets; Adamson Street in West Easton from East Street to Lehigh Drive; Zucksville Road in Forks Township from...

Flooding has closed sections of some roads in Northampton County, including Route 611 south in Easton between Nesquehoning and S. Third streets; Adamson Street in West Easton from East Street to Lehigh Drive; Zucksville Road in Forks Township from...

Flooding has closed sections of some roads in Northampton County, including Route 611 south in Easton between Nesquehoning and S. Third streets; Adamson Street in West Easton from East Street to Lehigh Drive; Zucksville Road in Forks Township from...

Flooding has closed sections of some roads in Northampton County, including Route 611 south in Easton between Nesquehoning and S. Third streets; Adamson Street in West Easton from East Street to Lehigh Drive; Zucksville Road in Forks Township from...

Rain prevailed overnight, causing some minor flooding in the Lehigh Valley and leaving the southern Poconos without the snowfall that was forecast as possible yesterday. The National Weather Service revised its winter storm warnings for Carbon and Monroe...

The state Department of Transportation;s list of road closures due to flooding in: CARBON COUNTY: East Penn Township -- Route 895 between Hollow and German roads. LEHIGH COUNTY: Lower Macungie Township -- Mill Creek Road and Spring Creek Road between...

East Penn School Board adopted a resolution Monday limiting the 2009-10 budget to a maximum 4.1 percent tax increase. School directors do not yet know what increase, if any, will be needed to make ends meet next school year, but a five-year budget...

THE HOUSING MARKET, BY SCHOOL DISTRICT LEHIGH COUNTY ALLENTOWN S.D. – From historic Old Allentown to the West End in the city, the Allentown City School District has 23 schools with a total enrollment of 17,521 students. Housing is 53 percent owner...

Take Freemansburg Avenue toward Easton. At Mine Lane Road, turn left, then right onto Oregon. At 3415 Oregon, you'll see the blowup-figure equivalent of 50 college kids squeezing into a phone booth. Take Mine Lane back across Freemansburg. Bear left as...

The rough black volcanic ash of Iwo Jima was warm enough under the surface to heat a can of beans, but the cool air on the night of Feb. 23, 1945, had Pfc. Albert J. Pianelli of Phillipsburg wearing his insulated jacket and heavy hunting socks as he and...