Lehigh Valley Press newspapers received 18 awards in the 2019 Professional Keystone Press Awards for work published in 2018.

The Bethlehem Press and its contributors received 12 Keystone Awards.

Four of the Bethlehem Press Keystone Awards was for work published in the Focus section.

East Penn Press received two Keystone Awards.

Northwestern Press received two Keystone Awards.

Whitehall-Coplay received one Keystone Award.

Catasauqua Press received one Keystone Award.

Here are the 2019 Keystone Awards received by the Lehigh Valley Press newspapers:

Bethlehem Press

First Place, Bernie O’Hare, Ongoing News Coverage, Fake News in Congressional Race?

First Place, Nate Jastrzemski, Personality Profile, Gerald Yob - ”I put Freemansburg out front.”

First Place, Jacquelyn Youst, Column, Respectfully Yours (Focus)

First Place, Carole Gorney, Feature Beat Reporting, Theater Reviews (Focus)

First Place, Dave Rowe, Page Design, B1 (Focus), Jumping for Joy; Just say ‘Groot’; The Nutcracker

Second Place, Lori Patrick, Douglas Graves, Dorthy Glew, Dennis Glew, Diversity, The time of my life; A night to shine; YWCA to honor women & teens of the year; Celebrating Portuguese culture; ‘Never forget who you are’; Residents, council praise conversion ordinance

Second Place, George Taylor, Front Page Design, Sick state; Painful picture of abuse; Changing the narrative

Second Place, Bernie O’Hare, News Beat Reporting, Northampton County news

Second Place, Dana Grubb, Feature Photo, Grad tab cover photo

Second Place, Camille Capriglione, Feature Beating Reporting, Dance (Focus)

Honorable Mention, Scott Pagel, Sports-Outdoor Columns (Sports), Eagles Super Bowl, Eagles Super Bowl parade; Youth sports in America

Honorable Mention, Ed Courrier, Graphic-Photo Illustration, Freedom of the Press

East Penn Press

First Place, Nancy Scholz, Sports Photo (Sports), Emmaus field hockey players celebrate a goal during a foggy state playoff game

Second Place, Debbie Galbraith, News Feature Story, Unexpected beagle invasion brings community together

Northwestern Press

Second Place, Dave Rowe, Graphic-Photo Illustration, It was a tornado

Honorable Mention, Debra Palmieri, General News, It was a tornado: Heidel Hollow workshop roof damaged

Whitehall-Coplay

Second Place, Kelly Lutterschmidt, Editorial, Add a state day and a parade to Barkley’s list of achievements; Is it really worth driving around those barricades?; Only yes means yes

Catasauqua Press

Honorable Mention, Paul Cmil, Business or Consumer Story, Forging Ahead: Catasauqua company continues reputation of reliability, quality.

Award recipients will be honored at contest sponsor Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association’s Keystone Press Awards Banquet during the Pennsylvania Press Conference, May 18, at the Hilton Harrisburg.