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Found Pig, Burned Dog, Missing Cat Top Local News

EHS gun rumors and five things about Dorney Park's new season also make headlines.

Anybody Lose a Pig?

A petite porker was found in Upper Milford Township early this week. 

A fire in a Shepher Hills townhouse had no human injuries, but the family dog was burned and one of the cats has gone missing.

Private business and public schools have fundamentally different goals, says an East Penn School Board candidate.

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High School Gun Rumors Under Investigation

Police investigated rumors that someone was going to bring a gun to Emmaus High School.

Cars tangle, pushing one vehicle into a utility pole at an Upper Milford intersection, troopers report.

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Dorney Park Opens Friday: 5 Things to Know

Here's one: Gates open at 10 a.m. Friday at Dorney Park in South Whitehall. You'll have to wait another three weeks for Wildwater Kingdom, which opens May 25.

A 13-year-old Macungie-area boy was slightly hurt recently when he rode his scooter between vehicles and struck the side of one in Lower Macungie Township, police said.


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