Wendy comes to Patch with many years experience in community journalism in the Lehigh Valley. She has worked for large and small newspapers, and is an award-winning reporter who has covered stories in locales from Allentown to Afghanistan. She began her career working as a stringer for several years with the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bureaus in Philadelphia. Wendy grew up in suburban Philadelphia and is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. She has taken graduate courses in creative writing.
Censorship is alive and well, as highlighted by Banned Books Week and the recent challenges to two books on East Penn School District summer reading list that some say are pornography.
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Caller tells Lehigh County man that his grandson has been arrested in Mexico and needs bail money, police say.
Risk of salmonella contamination prompts Giant Food Stores to recall Late July Organic Snacks organic mini peanut butter sandwich crackers.
Lehigh County Judge Douglas Reichley said it would be 'inappropriate' for the court to take up Freeman brothers' petition on the unconstitutionality of their sentences until the Pennsylvania Supreme Court reviews other juvenile kille
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Lawyers for Bryan and David Freeman of Salisbury Township, who are serving mandatory life sentences for the 1995 beating and slaying of their parents and brother, say the sentences violate their clients' constitutional rights because they were juve
The annual festival of all things Celtic includes music, sports and something for everyone.
A Salmonella outbreak led to more than 100 nut butter spreads recalled, product list here
Salisbury Township Police and other departments and organizations,will participate in National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 29.
Because of its innovative laptop and technology initiative, Salisbury Township School District is one of only 10 districts in the country to be named a Project RED Signature District.
Several local college and university IDs aren't voter ID compliant, according to a Pennsylvania consumer advocacy group.
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A whopping 6.7 million total pounds of trash was collected during the three-month Great American Cleanup of Pennsylvania.
Bottle of whiskey, GPS, jump starter, iPod Touch and binoculars stolen from vehicles over the weekend in Salisbury Township, police said.
Brian Gabriel Lopez and Philip Shawn Zampirri, both of Quakertown, are charged with robbery and criminal conspiracy; police say they robbed a local man at gunpoint then headed to Silhouettes Showbar.
Scores of residents came out on Saturday to enjoy Salisbury Community Day at Green Acres Park and Western Salisbury Fire Department.
A district judge ruled Friday there is enough evidence to send Kimberly Cardona's alleged killer's case to Lehigh County Court.
Six Salisbury High School students participated in the recent Colonial League Golf Championship.
