Bethlehem News

Covering 187 acres in Salisbury and Upper Saucon townships, the sanctuary has seven different trails, and is the conservancy’s ninth nature preserve in the Lehigh Valley.

Wegmans hit customers with robocalls Wednesday after recalling several varieties of its store-brand frozen waffles and pancakes due to potential listeria contamination.

Now around the halfway point of a two-year planning phase to reimagine the Stefko-Pembroke neighborhood, officials said they need residents to keep brainstorming.

11Fest will be from 5-11 p.m. Nov. 11 (11/11) inside the Main Library at 11 W. Church St., Bethlehem.

A staffing shortage caused the South Side Branch of the Bethlehem Area Public Library to close for two months. The library branch at 400 Webster St. is set to reopen Monday, Oct. 28.

Some plan modifications proposed by the Historic Conservation Commission included lowering the uppermost cornice by six feet, and a change in the storefront window choice for a better rhythm for passersby along the Third Street corridor.

A new fellowship soon will be offered to doctors at St. Luke's University Health Network to tie addiction and mental health services together more closely.

The two-car crash happened early Sunday at Seventh Street and Freemansburg Avenue in the Miller Heights section of Bethlehem Township.

Over 100 people showed up to show support for allies of former President Donald Trump. Two stops were made locally — in Allentown and Bethlehem.

The Bethlehem Area School District is getting $2 million in federal rebates to buy 10 more electric school buses. Officials expect the buses to be in service next school year.

Just shy of a mile's worth of abandoned rail line lies in the way of joining the South Bethlehem Greenway with the Saucon Rail Trail. Bethlehem City Council has moved to buy the land along that rail to later facilitate the new connection.

A four-man crew has been making haste since Oct. 1 in putting up the decorations, with most of the wreaths, ribbons, light wraps, trees and stars currently hanging on light poles above streets in South Bethlehem and along the city’s bridges.