Emmaus News

Wine/food pairings offered at Promenade's Wine & Spirits Store Starting Saturday, the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board is teaming up with Delaware River Food and Wine to present an educational series of food and wine pairings featuring regional chefs and premium wines.

A priest who served in Emmaus until 2006 has been removed from his current assignments in Reading after admitting an inappropriate relationship with an 18 year-old woman, the Diocese of Allentown said in a statement Sunday.

Car sits on bridge after Route 29 crash in Upper Milford. , November 20, 2009 The Route 29 bridge over the railroad tracks just south of Emmaus was shut down for over an hour after two cars collided on its narrow surface in the rain early this morning.

An employee of an Emmaus loan business is accused of stealing nearly $70,000 from a customer for whom she secured a loan earlier this year, police said.

Rick Duddy was close to running out of food stamps and didn't feel like eating "hobo stew'' for dinner.

Emmaus officials are hoping to stave off a tax increase next year, but costs are rising and eliminating a tax hike would rule out any improvements or major equipment purchases for the second year in a row, the borough manager said.

LOOKING FOR Patty Shaughnessy of Emmaus is looking for a recipe for Pumpkin Whoopie Pie.

The operator of the now-defunct Almost Heaven kennel in Lehigh County - the subject of multiple raids and seizures of hundreds of dogs over the past year - withdrew his guilty plea to animal cruelty charges today.

The East Penn School Board this week approved a 1.5 percent pay hike for its top administrator, but not before one taxpayer and a school director voiced their displeasure with the move.

It's tucked into the middle of a strip of strip malls, but the True Blue Mediterranean Cafe manages to circumvent a probability of suburban sameness.

As a youngster growing up with Pennsylvania Dutch-speaking parents, Oscar Crist had little use for the dialect.

A local flying ace shot down a week before D-Day will be featured in a PCN special today in honor of Veterans Day .

The Saucon Valley School Board is expected to consider hiring a replacement for outgoing high school Principal Todd Gombos, who is leaving the district to head up Orefield Middle School in the Parkland School District.

It was once said by the late American scholar Archibald MacLeish, ''What is more important in a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists.'' Public libraries have always been a treasure to many people, providing a way of reading and research for all communities and for all who have a thirst for learning.

A 20-year-old Emmaus man is accused of raping two children over the last six years, police said.

The Elco school board Monday night borrowed $7.6 million to fund the final construction phase of the new intermediate school and to make repairs on existing facilities.

Were you an election no-show? Posted by Kathy Reinhard at 12:11:17 PM on November 4, 2009 Yesterday, Stacy Sterner, Lehigh County's Election Board chief, predicted a low voter turnout.

Emmaus Borough Council might help the local library with major purchases and repairs as a result of a state budget that cuts 20 percent of funding to all libraries and will force the facility to reduce its hours.

In glass-is-half-full news: Local libraries will still have books when you go there.

Two days after bus drivers went on strike in the East Penn School District, the Teamsters union and the First Student bus company agreed on a new contract that returns the district's schedule to normal today.