Steve Novak

Journalist for @lehighvalley. Dad. Astronomy enthusiast. Always meaning to get outside more. Star Wars pub trivia champion.

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@lehighvalley Also, it's Election Day. Don't forget to vote. https://t.co/zlZPbHiBrv

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This morning's total lunar #eclipse over #BethlehemPA, seen from @SteelStacks. We won't see another until 2025.

More photos on @lehighvalley: https://t.co/wIQls41nLs

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In a 2002 episode of "The Sopranos," Tony and Christopher dumped a body in an abandoned quarry — aka Dutch Springs, the Lehigh Valley's scuba park. The episode aired 20 years ago this week.

#LehighValleyThen for @lehighvalley https://t.co/c2F9YZxzSw

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10 years ago, Superstorm Sandy blasted New Jersey and up through the Lehigh Valley. Some people here were without power for weeks. Here are some of the stories from that historic storm.

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Microplastic fibers were found in all 50 of the Pennsylvania rivers and streams tested by @PennEnvironment. Sites were selected for their high water quality or Class A status for trout fishing.

Story for @lehighvalley: https://t.co/6UghDCFdjW

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More than half a million Pennsylvanians have already voted. The deadline to request mail-in ballots is Nov. 1. https://t.co/KV19kCwbUI

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The movie ultimately flopped. But it was a big deal when "The Florentine" came to film exclusively in the Lehigh Valley 25 years ago, bringing a cast that included Luke Perry, Chris Penn, Michael Madsen and others.

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You're registered to vote, right?

If not, there's still a few hours left before Pennsylvania's deadline. https://t.co/THMtVP36ee

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10 years ago this week, the starting gun sounded on the first Runner's World Half Marathon and Festival, which had an eight-year run.

#LehighValleyThen for @lehighvalley https://t.co/D8Ax3rc7nW

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20 years ago, VH1′s “Music Behind Bars” was making headlines for all the wrong reasons — featuring a man serving life sentences for slaying two teens at the Lehigh Lookout in the 1990s.

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After just five days, the Lehigh Valley has seen more rain in October (2.94 inches measured at LVIA) than all of July (2.38 inches) or August (2.84 inches).

Story for @lehighvalley: https://t.co/bcc8PVJZ7e

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Clarence Smoyer, the "Hero of Cologne," the last member of the famous World War II Spearhead tank division, is going home to Lehighton one last time, where he will be laid to rest this week with full military honors.

Story for @lehighvalley: https://t.co/KPk4SGI3hz

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NJ's William Penn Highway, a precursor to Route 57, opened 100 years ago this week. Easton merchants congratulated their Warren County neighbors: "Greater prosperity always follows in the wake of good roads.”

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Clarence Smoyer, the last surviving member of the legendary Spearhead tank division in World War II, a native of Lehighton who’d been living with his daughter in Allentown, died Friday. He was 99.

Story with @kurtbresswein for @lehighvalley: https://t.co/8xNkkYY4rO

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Legendary WWII tank gunner and Allentown veteran Clarence Smoyer dies at 99 @lehighvalley https://t.co/w9ZGr5UdD7

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#greenwarehouses do exist
nice reporting @SteveNovakLVL #greenish
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It seems unusual for a cement plant to *over*-estimate its toxic releases in self-reported EPA data.

But that's what a #LehighValley site says in response to @PennEnvironment report showing the #LehighRiver among most polluted in U.S.

https://t.co/T2JFR9Am48 @lehighvalley

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@richterific @billyjoel @lehighvalley (Yes, I know the joke doesn't really work. I still stand by it.)

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.@billyjoel's #Allentown debuted 40 years ago this month. If you're living here, you've almost certainly heard it.

Feelings about the song are mixed these days. But it remains perhaps our premiere pop-culture moment.

My story for @lehighvalley: https://t.co/kP7mq6bEKA

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@richterific @billyjoel @lehighvalley What was that word you just said? "Musical?" I write a 3,000-word quote-story about Billy Joel and you say "musical?"