Bangor News

If you are not sitting down, you had better find a seat. I'm about to rise in defense of the belligerent, self-centered distraction of a public official named Ron Angle.

A vacant Upper Mount Bethel Township house on Route 191 was destroyed in a fire this morning, and a state police fire marshal was called to investigate.

Route 191 north of Bangor has re-opened following a house fire early this morning.

State officials have a message for a Northampton County councilman: No double-dipping! The councilman is Ron Angle.

For the 17th year, straw will be turned into scary, glamorous and funny creatures during the Scarecrow Festival in Easton's Centre Square.

Mold and dust problems continue to permeate buildings in the Bangor Area School District, and parents are taking directors to task about effects felt by students at Five Points Elementary School.

A 64-year-old Butler man was killed this morning while he was waiting to turn out of a driveway in Upper Mount Bethel Township, Pa.

Concerning "Postmaster behind bars" and "Arrest tarnishes borough once again" : I would like to remind the good readers of The Express-Times that every town has their so-called bad apples.

A good school administrator needs to be a curriculum shaper, money manager, disciplinarian, traffic cop and weather prognosticator.

Wash your hands after reading this. Months earlier than usual, in unexpected populations, flulike symptoms are sweeping through the Lehigh Valley, closing one school and causing officials to lose sleep over absenteeism rates and vaccine availability for both the seasonal flu and the H1N1 flu.

The first time borough Postmaster Gregory G. Schlegel drove by Agnes Jennings' home Tuesday, Schlegel stopped his black BMW, invited her in and asked for drugs, Jennings said Wednesday.

A northeastern Pennsylvania postmaster has been charged with trying to coax three girls and two women into his car.

Bangor Postmaster Gregory Schlegel is charged trying tor lure children. View full size Express-Times Photo BRUCE WINTER Gregory Schlegel's car, a black BMW police say he used in the commission of a crime, is still parked outside the Bangor Post Office.

The bail amount for the jailed Bangor postmaster was reduced late Wednesday, allowing him to post a fraction of the $50,000 he needs to be released, according to court records.

As the Bangor postmaster drove around checking collection boxes Tuesday afternoon, he was also looking for sex and propositioned two women and tried to lure three girls into his car, he allegedly told police.

A long-time postal employee and Bangor's current postmaster was drinking and looking for sex and drugs when he harassed three girls and two women by trying to lure them into his car yesterday afternoon in downtown Bangor, according to police.

Bangor's annual pumpkin carving festival is to be held from 5 to 8 o'clock tonight and Tuesday night at Bangor Memorial Park.

Route 191 in Bangor has re-opened after a downed pole and wires forced officials to detour drivers earlier this morning.

Deb Lyon was just trying to get her children to eat vegetables when she devised her Fried Cabbage and Bacon recipe.

About a half-dozen Northampton County young people are working to save a nearly lost art.