What Will Be Your Legacy?

Life goes by so quickly. When was the last time you took a step back to think about the impact yours will have on those around you? Will it be a positive one?

Over Memorial Day weekend, I read a story about a young Yale graduate named Marina Keegan who was slated to begin a promising career as an editorial assistant at the New Yorker. She loved her boyfriend, and had plans to move in with friends in Brooklyn as she began her career in New York. The future was bright. She was President of the Yale College of Democrats and wrote a story for Yale’s WEEKEND Magazine that was featured on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” On Memorial Day weekend, she was killed in a car accident. She was 22. We hear stories like this and they make our insides flip-flop. We think, “What a shame,” and “What a waste of a promising life.” But in her short life she left a legacy. Do you ever think about your…

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Crime and Fire

At Least 7 Reported Hurt in Lower Macungie Crash

Accident with rescue is on Hamilton Boulevard near Interstate 78, scanner reports say.

Seven or eight patients reportedly were hurt Saturday night in a serious accident requiring rescue in Lower Macungie Township, according to scanner reports. At least five ambulances were dispatched about 8:25 p.m. to Hamilton Boulevard and Interstate 78 for a motor vehicle accident with trapped victims, according to scanner reports. An unconfirmed report stated a car was overturned with three children trapped. A transmission from the EMS officer in charge confirmed seven or eight patients, but did not detail the severity or age. A later transmission from the fire officer in charge stated that two victims were extricated. Three vehicles were involved, according to an emergency news service. No details about the cause of the accident were …

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