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Giving ‘everything she has.’ After four decades of aiding Lehigh Valley workers, head of workforce board to retire

Nancy Dischinat has decided to retire as executive director of Workforce Board Lehigh Valley by the end of 2025. She has more than 40 years on the job.

Police respond to the 900 block of Delaware Avenue in Fountain Hill on Friday night, July 4, 2025, after three people were shot at a residence. (Rich Rolen/Special to The Morning Call)

Argument led to Fountain Hill triple shooting, police say; 18-year-old suspect identified

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Man dead in downtown Allentown shooting after altercation between drivers

Allen High School and Lehigh Carbon Community College student Gabriel Molestina,16, works on part of a project about the AI Institute summer program Wednesday, July 2, 2025, at DeSales University’s Gambet Center in Upper Saucon Township. Artificial intelligence will be part of the new focus of Allentown’s Building 21 high school, which has been renamed the Bridgeview Academy of Health, Science, Innovation and Technology. The school will prepare students for careers in AI, computer science and health care. (Amy Shortell/The Morning Call)

New Building 21 focus is just one part of Allentown School District’s investment in AI. Here’s what the future holds

A view Tuesday, July 1, 2025, outside a hundred-year-old Allentown building that once was a judge’s home, a bank and law offices. Owner Keith Wolfe is considering turning it into office space while keeping its historical elements. (April Gamiz/The Morning Call)

Can this historic Allentown building be saved? City considers declaring it ‘blighted’ as owner works on restoration

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Families watch as Da Vinci Science Center’s McKenna Barker and Amarah Karlick create ice cream with different methods Sunday, July 6, 2025, during the Scoop on Ice Cream: Live Science Show at Da Vinci Science Center in Allentown. The show runs Saturdays and Sundays in July. (April Gamiz/The Morning Call)

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The Scoop on Ice Cream: Live Science Show at Da Vinci Science Center

Sports

It had been a hot day, so Brandon Marsh makes sure Zack Wheeler enjoys a cold water bottle bath after what essentially was Wheeler’s best game as a Phillie on Sunday at Citizens Bank Park. (Chris Szagola – The Associated Press)

Phillies Notebook: Teammates, crowd salute Wheeler for 1-hit gem complete game

A big day for Zack and the Phillies. He'd been told before the game that he was selected to the National League All Star Team.

Things to Do

The Elizabeth Johnston Prime Dollhouse Collection is seen Thursday, June 26, 2025, at the Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts in Bethlehem. With 44 antique structures highlighting 100 years of architectural and decorative arts, the collection features a variety of dollhouses, stores, stables, mansions and verandas representing decades between 1830 and 1930, and more than 6,000 meticulously crafted miniature pieces. The museum this summer is offering exclusive, behind-the-scenes tours of the collection. (Oliver Lois Economidis/The Morning Call)

Venture into Bethlehem museum’s vault and explore 100 years of dollhouse craftsmanship

Bethlehem’s Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts is offering a peek behind the miniature curtains of one of the country’s largest antique dollhouse collections this summer.