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Schools
Students Join Habitat for Humanity to Help Homeowners
Lehigh Carbon Community College’s Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) team is partnering with Habitat for Humanity of the Lehigh Valley to create a training facility for new Habitat for Hu...
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Business
Get $35 from PPL for Recycling Old Fridge
PPL is offering free pick up of your old refrigerator plus $35 to encourage residents to recycle appliances that are not energy efficient. An oudated, spare residential-sized refrige...
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The Neighborhood Files
Make Your Garage Sale a Success
Every weekend in Upper Macungie Patch is an opportunity to sell your stuff to yard sale junkies. Whether you are a homeowner, church or civic organization, let the community know a...
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Government
687 in Township Seek Reassessment Review
After the county sent out its reassessment figures, 260 Upper Macungie taxpayers challenged the figures, along with thousands of other Lehigh County homeowners. As a result, the co...
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Government
Niagara Bottling to Expand and Hire
The 320,000 square-foot manufacturing center for Niagara Bottling in Upper Macungie has a problem – its break room is too small. Michelle Smith, regional human resource manage...
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Government
Zoning Board Gives Small Dog a Swell Fence
Ana Lucia Pinheiro, at 858 Yorkshire Drive in Breinigsville, wants to install a fence to keep her small dog in the back yard. That fence, however, would be within a drainage e...
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Government
Tilghman Bridge Work Begins; Expect Delays
Motorists can expect weekday (9 a.m. to 3 p.m.) delays on Tilghman Street starting the week of March 26 for work on two structurally deficient bridges in Upper Macungie. The c...
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Government
County Extends Reassessment Review Deadline
Property owners in Lehigh County now have until Friday, March 23, to request a review of their reassessments. Lehigh County is extending the deadline by one week since the new prelim...