{"id":134817,"date":"2026-03-10T21:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/134817\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T21:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:18:10","slug":"mako-joins-senators-to-bring-grant-funding-to-lehigh-valley-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/134817\/","title":{"rendered":"Mako joins senators to bring grant funding to Lehigh Valley \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published March 10. 2026 01:53PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">State Rep. Zach Mako, R-183rd, announced Dec. 18, 2025, he helped secure almost $1.27 million in Local Share Account grants from the Commonwealth Financing Authority for projects throughout the 183rd Legislative District.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Act 71 of 2004 provides for the distribution of LSA gaming revenues through the CFA to support projects of public interest within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u201cI\u2019m pleased to work with Sens. Nick Miller, D-14th, and Jarrett Coleman, R-16th, to have each of these projects funded,\u201d Mako said. \u201cThese funds will help repair or replace vital infrastructure and equipment used by municipalities and organizations to better serve our community. I am happy to help pursue this funding, as it would have been challenging to move forward without it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Municipalities receiving LSA funding are:<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u2022North Whitehall Township \u2013 $27,911 to purchase a generator and computer equipment for Northern Valley EMS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u2022Walnutport Borough \u2013 $275,000 to replace the furnace in the town hall building that stopped functioning in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The 183rd House District includes Lowhill and North Whitehall townships and Slatington Borough in Lehigh County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">It also consists of Allen, East Allen, Lehigh and Moore (part) townships, and Bath, North Catasauqua, Northampton and Walnutport boroughs in Northampton County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Contributed article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published March 10. 2026 01:53PM State Rep. Zach Mako, R-183rd, announced Dec. 18, 2025, he helped secure almost&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-134817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}