Catasauqua News

FOUND 45 rpm record to CD transfer: Larry of Slatington and Joe are both able to transfer 45 rpm records to CD for Alice of Palmerton.

HUMP DAY IRISH FESTIVAL The Town Pants from Vancouver and BC and Ceann from Pittsburgh team up for a night of Celtic music 8 p.m. today at The Main Gate, 17th and Liberty streets, Allentown.

Some things are guaranteed to make you popular, like having a rooftop pool in the city or knowing the bouncer at a hot new club or having really luxurious hair.

By a 3-2 vote, Catasauqua Borough Council has approved a plan to revitalize the downtown.

Catasauqua police are investigating a bar fight and possible stabbing involving five people on Race Street over the weekend.

Home improvement contractor Glen Langille, owner of Langstaff Inc., of Effort, has a week left to respond to a lawsuit filed against him by the state Attorney General's Office.

On April 11, 2008, the Investigating Grand Jury handed up a Presentment to the Court recommending that Jennifer Garza be arrested on the following enumerated charges: Of Children The Presentment of the Grand ...

A Lehigh County woman has been charged with drowning her then-fiance's 5-year-old son in a bathtub.

A Catasauqua woman was charged today in connection with the drowning death of her boyfriend's 5-year-old son on March 10, 2007 in Fountain Hill.

Vincent Smith revived his bicycle racing career last year by competing in the first Tour de Brew mountain bike race. The Catasauqua Borough Council president did well enough, finishing 20th of 30 riders who made it to the end. But the experience also gave him an idea.

Why not try a similar event in Catasauqua, with a quirky course feature, similar to the Tour de Brew?

And that is how the July 5th Tour de Pool was born. The race, the same day as the start of the Tour de France, the world's most prestigious bicycle race, will feature laps across the cement skirt of Catasauqua's swimming pool.

Several local businesses with state liquor licenses face administrative action after being cited for various violations of the state Liquor Control Board.

A blond, blue-eyed tyke who loved Goldfish crackers and showing his belly died too soon but gave something extraordinary in his short life: a liver, intestines and two kidneys.

More than 70 senior citizens in Lehigh County are heading home. Residents of the Catasauqua Towers were forced from their apartments because of a water main break nearly three weeks ago.

Fans of historic architecture tours often come away with an appreciation for preservation and clear confirmation of the old saying, ''They just don't build them the way they used to.''

Historic Catasauqua, the borough credited with no less a feat than helping to spark the American Industrial Revolution, is a case in point.

The millionaire industrialists constructed ornate Victorian mansions here and built humble rowhouses for their factory workers who were engaged in using anthracite coal to make iron.

The sun should be shining on parks in Catasauqua and Easton this weekend when local bands turn on the heat at two music festivals.

One of two Allentown men who stole electronics and other objects from vehicles in Lehigh County was sentenced Wednesday to six to 131/2 years in state prison.

The sentence Dennis Englert, 39, received in Lehigh County Court will run concurrently with a prison term of 11/2 to five years in Northampton County for thefts from vehicles there.

Englert and co-defendant Zachary Danberry, 20, pleaded guilty in April to multiple misdemeanor counts of theft from a motor vehicle.

Danberry, who also was charged in Northampton County, will be sentenced in Lehigh County June 20.

A severe thunderstorm in the region pounded Allentown's West End area Tuesday night, felling trees, downing power lines and blowing debris on a day that broke a high-temperature record set 24 years ago.

The Lehigh County Coroner's office ruled that the man whose body was recovered in the Lehigh River under the Hokendauqua Bridge in Whitehall Township yesterday committed suicide.

The Hokendauqua Bridge in Whitehall Township is closed after a body was discovered underneath, police said.

Mountain biker Dave Leibert walks quickly along the rocky and uneven trails he helped design and build at the Walking Purchase Park in Salisbury Township.