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🏗️ The lead
The Boyd Theatre project is actually happening — Bethlehem's planning commission signed off Tuesday, so that stretch of Broad Street is about to look very different. Here's what's going in, and when.
📅 What's happening
- Levitt Pavilion free concert series — bring a chair, the lawn fills by 6:30. Fri 7pm, SteelStacks, free.
- IronPigs fireworks night — the good promo, not the mid-week one. Sat 6:35pm, Coca-Cola Park, from $12.
- Easton Farmers' Market — oldest continuous open-air market in the country, and the peach guy is back. Sat 9am–1pm, Centre Square, free.
💛 One good thing
An Emmaus eighth-grader spent her summer repainting the faded crosswalk murals by the library — the borough just voted to make it an annual tradition.
Sample issue — plus quick local news hits, a food find, and nothing else. Five minutes, done.
Why this exists
The Valley deserves better than a robot's newsletter
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A person, not a pipeline
Some "local" newsletters here are generated by software in another state. The Scoop is written by Colin, who lives here, goes to these things, and reads every reply.
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Five minutes, honestly
No 40-item link dumps. Every issue is built to be finished — read it with your coffee and know what's going on.
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Judgment, not a calendar
The events calendar has 200 listings. You get the 5–8 actually worth your weekend, with the details you need to just go.
Who's behind it
Hi, I'm Colin
I kept finding out about great Lehigh Valley stuff after it happened — the pop-up, the soft open, the free show at Levitt. The information exists; it's just scattered across ten sites and six Facebook groups. So I started reading all of it, every day, and sending my friends the short version. This is that email, now for everyone.
Reply to any issue and tell me your town and what you want more of. I read everything.
— Colin
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