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I like to space Grammar Police columns out at least a month apart. But I've been taking such a beating from readers about one sentence in my most recent grammar column that I decided to address it a bit sooner rather than endure more behind-the-scenes chiding.

I wrote not long ago about conflicts between airline passengers over reclining seats and side-by-side encroachment.

I saw a peanut stand, heard a rubber band,

Paul Carpenter's column would have played in the opinion space today where it has appeared every Sunday since 1989.

It was a splendid dam, made of creek bed gravel, reinforced by big rocks and topped with large chunks of the sod that had been hanging over the bank. A lovely little waterfall was created by a spillway at one end of the dam, and a scenic pond now extended upstream.

There is something deeply disturbing about last Friday's attacks on two state troopers in Pike County, apart from the wrenching tragedy involving the death of one officer and the wounding of another.

In Canadensis, a pair of father-and-son fortune hunters had stopped at Cole's Pizza for a bite to eat. The father's name is Tar — he looked like a World War II Navy hand, so maybe that's where he picked up the nickname — and the son's name is Clint. Their last...

I got to thinking the other day about the phrase "leafy suburb," because I happened to be standing in one — sort of one, anyway, as it was inside the Allentown city limits — and I had some time on my hands to mull things over.

One of the irksome things about covering municipal government, which most of us at the paper do to some degree, is that so much of the public's business is conducted in whispers. You can get a sense of what's going on, but big parts of the conversation are inaudible, and it all gets...

All the shiny new buildings and trendy dining spots aren't going to be enough to draw suburbanites to downtown Allentown if they get treated the way Andrea Hoagland did recently.

Some veterans waited longer than average to see their doctor at the Allentown veterans clinic last year, according to an audit released this week.

Text messages from your bank also may be a trick

Q: MacArthur Road at the Route 22 interchange is looking great. After all the money spent for this much-needed improvement to benefit vehicular as well as pedestrian traffic, I'm rather disappointed that the 'yield' sign remains at the end of the ramp from Route 22 west to...

Q: Calling on the Road Warrior to settle a difference of opinion. My friend recently had rotator cuff surgery. His left arm is in a sling and in a contraption that immobilizes his arm by strapping it to his chest. His left-hand is free but its range of motion is limited to what he can do by...

Q: On the subject of stop signs, there is an unusual situation in the Trexlertown Shopping Center. There are two-way stop signs at the Trexlertown Post Office, but the signs are perpendicular to each other. The end result is that the two non-stops at the intersection both have the...

They walk with us. They watch television with us. They even listen to our problems when no one else will. In many ways, our canine companions truly are our best friends.

When it comes to the country's great wine-making regions, one naturally thinks of Napa Valley in California, the Finger Lakes in New York and the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania.

'Boxes' in Coopersburg and Upper Macungie Twp. join a dozen others in the area.

The 110th World Series begins tonight.

Anthony Stolarz may be the top goalie prospect in the Philadelphia Flyers system, but he knows the reality of where he is right now.

Forget the Renaissance Fairs and the Civil War re-enactments.

Muzzleloader season opened Saturday, so everyone going out in the woods needs to be aware of the fluorescent-orange requirements even if they are archery hunting.

There was a chill in the air on Sunday, a harbinger of winter.

Shayne Gostisbehere is the top defensive prospect in the Philadelphia Flyers organization, and on Friday night, in front of a standing-room-only sellout crowd of 8,647 at the PPL Center, he showed Lehigh Valley Phantoms fans exactly why.

ANDREW GORDON

Pat Boyle has had tremendous success in his 18 seasons as the boys basketball coach at Notre Dame-Green Pond, winning 337 games along with two Colonial League championships and seven District 11 titles.

Mark Alt can't wait.

Freedom played six games before running into one of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference's elite football programs.