The Morning Call

23 hours ago | mcall.com | Elizabeth DeOrnellas

A camel named Alexander successfully intimidates coyotes from approaching the flocks at Raspberry Ridge Creamery, but the Upper Mount Bethel Township sheep farm needed an infusion of cash to fence off expanded grazing areas from the road.

1 day ago | mcall.com | Elizabeth DeOrnellas

Sciences ranging from aerospace engineering to molecular biology dominated the list of intended majors as top-ranked seniors from Freedom and Liberty high schools announced their post-graduation plans at Wednesday’s Academic Signing Ceremony at The Factory. At the 12th annual event, mirroring an athletic signing ceremony, Superintendent Jack Silva said the students’ academic achievements came not by chance, but by choice.

2 days ago | mcall.com | Matthew De George

When the MLS schedule for 2025 was released, May rose like a mountain in front of the Philadelphia Union. Seven games were scheduled in a hectic month. Four were on the road, and the Union would hit June 1 having played more than half of its home games for the season. Add in the potential of two U.S. Open Cup rounds, and May could be a ramp that the Union used to launch into the back half of the season or a hillside into which they crashed and burned. It has decidedly proven to be the former.

2 days ago | mcall.com | Jeff Neiburg

Vic Fangio doesn’t usually shy away from answering a question directly, but he took an early off-ramp when asked a follow-up question Tuesday afternoon about a previous response. The topic was Jordan Davis, the defensive tackle entering his fourth season, whose fifth-year option recently was exercised by the Eagles. The defensive coordinator noted that Davis surged late in the Eagles’ Super Bowl-winning season.

2 days ago | mcall.com | Anthony Salamone

Allentown developer Nat Hyman’s plan for turning an old Crayola manufacturing complex in Palmer Township has won approval from the township zoning hearing board. Zoning board members voted 4-0 Tuesday night — after the fourth meeting on the topic since January — in favor of the 94 one-bedroom studio apartments in the four-story building cluster along Edgewood Avenue adjacent to Bushkill Creek.