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The Celtic Cultural Alliance, which has run Bethlehem's Celtic Classic Highland Games & Festival since 1988, announced Wednesday that it is shutting down, making last month's festival the last.
Shankweiler's Drive-In Theatre will show "Godzilla Minus Zero" on Friday, Nov. 6, Saturday, Nov. 7 and Sunday, Nov. 8, the film's North American release weekend, the theater said in an Instagram post.
Drivers can drop off non-perishable food and cleaning supplies for the Allentown Rescue Mission's 26th annual Thanks for Giving Food & Supplies Drive at both Josh Early Candies stores from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14, with former heavyweight champion Larry Holmes on hand at the Allentown store.
Michelle Morton is leaving her job as administrator of Northampton County's Gracedale Nursing Home, effective Thursday, Nov. 12, the county announced Monday.
Gov. Josh Shapiro signed a law Monday requiring every Pennsylvania school to ban student cell phone use for the entire school day, with each policy due by the start of the 2027-28 school year.
Gov. Josh Shapiro on Thursday signed a law that ends the sale of a type of firefighting foam made with PFAS, the so-called forever chemicals, starting July 1, 2027, and bars fire departments from using it starting Jan. 1, 2028.
State Sen. Nick Miller presented the Allentown School District with a $500,000 state grant Friday to start a multi-phase expansion of J. Birney Crum Stadium, money he first announced in July.
Katrina Godbey says a federal jury sided with three Bethlehem police officers in her excessive-force lawsuit over how they entered her home in March 2024, when she says officers pushed through her door and knocked her into a staircase.
Parents and residents of the Bethlehem Area School District can weigh in on how the district uses its school buildings and draws attendance boundaries at five community meetings Wednesday, Nov. 4, through Friday, Nov. 6.
An "I Am Jane Doe" rally from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, outside the Monroe County Courthouse will show support for the former Cornell University student whose sexual assault allegations are now under a state special prosecutor's investigation.
Bethlehem police said Thursday that thieves have been stealing radar sensors from behind the Honda emblem on newer Honda vehicles, most often in Center City.
A tree from the grounds of Bethel Memorial Baptist Church at 715 Chestnut Lane will be Bethlehem's city Christmas tree this year, with a rigging crew due about 7 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4, to cut it down.
WDIY 88.1 FM is bringing back its Lehigh Valley "Hollywood" Squares, a live game show fundraiser with local leaders in the celebrity squares, from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, at the State Theatre Center for the Arts, 453 Northampton St.
The city said in a notice that "a widespread technical issue affecting Granicus" caused the council's livestream service to go offline. It said the meeting would go ahead as scheduled and that it planned to post a recording as soon as streaming returned.
The library's event page lists Janine Santoro, the city's director of equity and inclusion, as its contact. Santoro organized a panel at the library in July 2025 as the city marked the 35th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act and raised its first Disability Pride flag, and three of Saturday's speakers were listed as panelists then.
Only three of the Lehigh Valley's 17 school districts, Allentown, Easton Area and Whitehall-Coplay, have posted rules barring phones during the school day in every grade. The rest would have to change theirs by the 2027-28 school year.
Alyssa R. McDowell, 34, a pharmacy technician at Sheffield Pharmacy, took 80,926 oxycodone pills and 8,744 hydrocodone pills between January 2022 and May 2026, investigators allege, according to the attorney general's office. The 89,670 pills work out to about 1,700 a month over that span, based on the office's figures.
The terms are the ones a fact-finder, an outside expert the state labor board appointed after talks stalled, recommended Aug. 31. "Nothing changed from the FF report," district Communications Manager Jennifer LoConte-Kugler said in an email Wednesday.
The study, Bethlehem's first since 1995, recommends adding 28 firefighters over several years at about $3.1 million a year, we reported Saturday. Last December, when council rejected adding four firefighters to this year's budget, the administration pointed to this study instead. Reynolds said he believes the 2027 budget comes out "two weeks from Friday," which is Nov. 6.
Laura Collins, the city's director of community and economic development, told council that the city reviews any land development submission filed before the ordinance passed under current zoning. Besides the Industrial Drive project, which she called publicized, she told council that "another proposal" in the city's industrial zone had come in and has just begun internal review.