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Week in review: Feb. 18-24, 2024

Musikfest sign
Will Oliver
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LehighValleyNews.com
All signs point to the 40th Musikfest setting a single-festival attendance record around 1.25 million.

BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Welcome back to our Week in Review. We have chosen several stories, in no particular order, to take you back on the week. Enjoy, and thank you so much for reading.

1. Ska-punk godfathers say they'll play Bethlehem, just as Musikfest headliner announcement looms

Rome Ramirez
MediaPunch/IPx
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The Associated Press
Rome Ramirez of Sublime with Rome performs during day 2 of Audacy's Riptide Music Festival 2023 at Fort Lauderdale Beach Park on December 03, 2023 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Credit:

2. Record-setting hard rock band will return to Musikfest's headline stage

Shinedown
Courtesy
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Musikfest
Hard rock band Shinedown will headline Musikfest's SteelStage

3. Reunited 2000s boy band to headline Musikfest

Big Time Rush
Courtesy
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Musikfest
Big Time Rush will headline Musikfest's main stage

4. Macungie Pub signs lease for restaurant, looks for a summer opening and a name

Steve Misti Slaski
Jay Bradley
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LehighValleyNews.com
Steve and Misti Slaski at the former site of the Macungie Pub on Main as renovations continue

5. ‘Without farms we don't eat’: 5 Lehigh Valley farms preserved from development

A field of corn is seen on a farm, Wednesday, July 11, 2018, Lancaster County, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Matt Slocum
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AP
A field of corn is seen on a farm, Wednesday, July 11, 2018, in Lancaster County.

6. Art deco theater, borough street: Two Lehigh Valley sites join National Register of Historic Places

19th street theater.jpg
Olivia Marble
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LehighValleyNews.com
The front of 19th Street Theatre.

7. Meteor streaks over skies from Virginia to New York, with sightings near the Lehigh Valley

Meteor
Distributed
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American Meteor Society
This photo, taken from a video submitted to the American Meteor Society, shows a fireball racing through the sky Wednesday night.

8. Taiba Sultana makes primary ballot, but legal issues over phony signature may not be over

Taiba Sultana.jpg
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Taiba Sultana for Pa.
Taiba Sultana