Sunday, March 3, 2013
Lower Macungie burglar enters shed, finds adult magazines and views them in victim's garage about 1:30 a.m., troopers report.
There's probably only one person who really knows what was going on here. According to a police report, that person is a 5-foot-9 man who was wearing gray sweatpants, black sneakers and a black-hooded sweatshirt. For the rest of us, there's a lot of head scratching to be done. The man wearing the sweatshirt about 1:30 a.m. Thursday entered an unattached shed belonging to Joseph Woomer of 7582 Quarry Road, Lower Macungie, according to state police at Fogelsville. There, the prowler found a box of adult magazines. He took that box to the victim's attached garage and placed the container inside on the floor, leaving one magazine open, police said. The man in the sweatshirt fled on foot, last seen headed west toward Sauerkraut Lane. It wasn't …
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Emmaus High School Principal Dave Piperato tells East Penn School Board members that he and the parent who challenged two books on the Emmaus High School summer reading have reached an agreement.
Emmaus High School Principal David Piperato told the East Penn Board of School Directors last night that a verdict has been reached regarding two books from the EHS summer reading list some parents considered to be potentially “pornographic” in nature. The summer reading program at Emmaus High School entered the limelight in September when two parents came before the school board to voice their concerns about the graphic sexual and drug-related content of two books on the list -- Tom Wolfe’s “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,” which was on the 10th grade list, and “Prep,” a 9th-grade selection written by Curtis Sittenfeld. A subsequent written challenge to both books under District Policy 109 by a third parent touched off a formal district …
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Local man is accused of harassment at Lower Macungie address, troopers say.
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Saturday, December 1, 2012
A man's alleged intended romantic advances at a Lower Macungie home sure got a reaction from a woman all right, but that was in the form of a harassment accusation filed with police. An unidentified 60-year-old man rubbed the victim's back and shoulders about 5 p.m. Nov. 11 at 3041 Schoeneck Road, according to state police at Fogelsville. He then played a pornographic movie for the 22-year-old to see. She also was from Lower Macungie, but another address.
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Formal challenges were filed against 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test' in 2007 and 'Prep' in 2011 using established East Penn School District policy.
The current controversy surrounding two books on the Emmaus High School summer reading lists is not a first for the East Penn School District. Some board members expected to vote Sept. 24 on a motion to eliminate Tom Wolfe’s “Acid Test,” which is on the 10th grade summer reading list, and “Prep,” a 9th-grade selection written by Curtis Sittenfeld, as summer reading options. However, Board President Charles Ballard dismissed the motion for procedural reasons without giving the board a chance to discuss it. The main thrust of Ballard’s dismissal came from the fact that the books were not challenged under a formal district procedure known as Policy 109. Until that happened, he said, the board, in Ballard’s view, should not make any …
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Monday, September 24, 2012
A motion to remove two books from the Emmaus High School optional summer reading list is one of four motions up for decision at tonight’s meeting of the East Penn Board of School Directors.
The East Penn Board of School Directors is expected to vote tonight on a motion proposed by School Director Julian Stolz at the board’s Sept. 10 meeting that could remove two books from the Emmaus High School optional summer reading list. The decision before the board, if approved, would eliminate Tom Wolfe’s “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,” which is on the 10th grade list, and “Prep,” a 9th-grade selection written by Curtis Sittenfeld. Stolz’s motion was prompted by a parent who came before the board at the Sept. 10 meeting to share her concerns about what she described as the pornographic nature of the books. To catch up on the Patch coverage of the "book ban" motion before tonight's meeting, including what your friends and neighbors …
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An interested bystander
4:41 pm on Sunday, March 3, 2013
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