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Casey holds Lehigh County meeting Monday

For Immediate Release:

Casey Hosts Town Hall Meeting on Transmission Corridor

EMMAUS, PA - U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) will host a regional town
hall meeting on Monday, March 31st to discuss the proposed National
Interest Electric Transmission Corridor (NIETC).  The Department of
Energy has designated three quarters of Pennsylvania as part of the
NIETC.  The event will include participants from the Lehigh Valley and
over a dozen counties throughout eastern Pennsylvania.

DATE:           Monday, March 31st
TIME:           11:00am
LOCATION:   Wildlands Conservancy, 3701 Orchid Place, Emmaus, PA

Stephanie D. Zarecky
Deputy Press Secretary
P: (202) 228-6367 F: (202) 228-0734

Improvements coming to I-78

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Shot fired at Turner Street Bar

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Happy Easter!

Enjoy the jelly beans! --Staff, Allentown News

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We’d love to see your Clinton photos/video

>Whether you caught up with the former U.S. President in Allentown or Bethlehem, if you’ve got photos/video from the visit, we’d love to see them. E-mail what you’ve got to us at no.1newshound and maybe we’ll post them. We’re trusting contributors not to submit any copyrighted material you don’t have the right to allow us to post. Postranger.com has a zero tolerance for copyright infringement and will remove any content after receiving notice with proof of copyright by the rightful owner. Anyone caught submitting copyrighted material will be banned permanently from contributing to the site…

Clinton in Allentown

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Former Allentown man killed

A former Allentown man living in West Chester was killed in an accident on Route 22 Sunday morning, Topix.net reports. Read complete details at PennLive.com...

Allentown native accused of murders

An Allentown native has allegedly confessed to a string of murders in several states more than two decades after the crimes were committed. Read more at PhillyBurbs.com and find out how police finally solved the case in this CNN report at LiveLink.com…

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