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A 20-year-old man on a motorcycle led state police on a short chase in Lynn Township on Monday night to avoid being pulled over for driving an unregistered vehicle, said state police at Fogelsville.

A 20-year-old man on a motorcycle led state police on a short chase in Lynn Township Monday night to avoid being pulled over for driving an unregistered vehicle, according to a state police news release issued ...

FOUND Wheelchair ramps: Sheila of Allentown has portable wheelchair ramps she is willing to sell to Mary Ann of Bethlehem.

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She doesn't get her hands greasy under the hood of a car or fix people's hair.

Tara VanDenEynde is part of a new generation of vo-tech students enjoying one of the newest programs at a school that's leading the charge in the Lehigh Valley region to change the way vocational-technical schools operate.

VanDenEynde, an 18-year-old from Germansville , dons scrubs for half of each day in Lehigh Career and Technical Institute's two-year-old dental lab. She hopes to go for an associate degree in dental hygiene after high school. Read more

A Germansville man was hurt Thursday afternoon when his car was broadsided by a pickup truck in South Whitehall Township , police said. via The Morning Call

Dave Kite says he's restoring an 1890s electric automobile, so it's disconcerting to enter his shop and find -- amid the steroidal muscle cars and the one-of-a-kind hearse and various incarnations of your father's Oldsmobile -- a black wooden box hardly bigger than a Radio Flyer wagon.

It's the Electrobat -- or as much of the Electrobat as Kite and his employer, Antique and Classic Restorations of Germansville , were asked to restore on behalf of Allentown 's America on Wheels Transportation Museum. The rest of it -- frame and wheels -- is at the Front Street museum, where it will be assembled and put on display sometime before the April 7 opening. Read more

FOUND Redner's Warehouse Market receipt collectors: Several Scouts responded to Roberta of Bethlehem and her request for Redner's Warehouse Market receipt collectors. via The Morning Call

Several observant readers who drive the back roads of northern Lehigh County have written and called in the past few weeks to report activity in and around the Bake Oven Inn at 7705 Bake Oven Road in ... via MergeDigital

“We set buckets on tables at the fersommling”

You already know about Punxsutawney Phil, the No. 1 groundhog in Pennsylvania. And more recently you've been exposed to Gus the Groundhog, hawking tickets for the Pennsylvania Lottery . via Easton Express-Times

Off the sprawling exposition areas of the Pennsylvania Farm Show, beyond the booths selling camouflage luggage sets and $23,000 compact tractors, the gritty, unfiltered heart of the state's annual agricultural showcase beats, literally, in the slightly smaller, barn-like rooms with vaguely academic sounding names.

It is in places called West Hall and and North Hall, where the livestock exhibitors keep their sheep, goats, cattle and pigs in the gray temporary aluminum enclosures lined with transplanted bits of farm life, clumps of earth, sawdust, straw and animal feed. Read more

Freddie Mac, the mortgage company, reported Thursday that 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages averaged 5.87 percent this week. via The Morning Call

One of the drivers involved in this afternoon's three-vehicle accident in western Lehigh County has died. via WFMZ-TV Allentown

Joe Sapacs of Neffs had breakfast at the Bowmanstown Diner a few Saturdays ago. Twelve hours later, he was back at his favorite haunt, having dinner with his wife. via MergeDigital

Allentown's four-year-old Volunteer Medical Reserve Corps ran out of grant money a couple of months ago, but its members continue to donate their time to keep community members well and prepared for ... via The Morning Call

Program: NEWTON PROJECT, PART 8 - ASK THIS OLD HOUSE TRANSF Series: THIS OLD HOUSE HOUR Length: Link: http://www.pbs.org/thisoldhouse/home/ 11/24/2007 at 1:00 PM [KLRN Channel 9 / KLRN-DT 9.1 HD] In the first ... via KLRN-TV San Antonio

The gates of Venture Farms weren't set to open until 1 p.m. Sunday, but Gail Christman, who helps runs the 110-acre horse farm, walked outside in the brilliant morning sunshine just after 11:30 and saw dozens of visitors looking for the farm's hayrides, trail rides and tours.

''I just told them they had to wait. We needed time to get ready,'' said Christman, who runs the farm near Germansville, Heidelberg Township, with her husband, Raymond, and a partner, Carol Miller.

The farm on a gentle hillside with a stunning view of the Blue Mountain and Bake Oven Knob was one of 20 showcase farms that agreed to be part of the Lehigh County Cooperative Extension Service's annual Open Gate Farm Tour, which has been a staple of Lehigh Valley autumns for more than 35 years. Read more

Sunday's Lehigh County Open Gate Farm Tour offers a first-hand look for anyone who ever wished they could be a farmer or wondered where the food on their table comes from. via MergeDigital

“I was ready to meet people and have fun, and going to craft shows is fun for me.”

The morning was cool and foggy with more than a hint of autumn in the air. That was good news for the vendors at the Myerstown Fall Craft Show, who called it the best of all possible weather to put shoppers in ... via The Lebanon Daily News

Will Lehigh potatoes ever become as famous as Vidalia onions, Big Boy tomatoes, Silver Queen corn or Gala apples?

The fate and fame of this new potato variety that carries ''our'' name rests in your hands, now that the first commercial-sized crop is being dug right here on Lehigh Valley farms.

After all, if Lehigh Valley cooks aren't willing to take them and bake them, mash them, boil them and fry them, they're certainly not going to make it in other places where the name isn't part of the mystique. Read more