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The hiring of a new executive director completes an extensive search, according to the board of the South Bethlehem facility. Victoria Montero served as executive director for the past five years.

North Whitehall supervisors chose a layout for the upcoming township building renovations Monday. The project’s estimated cost is just over $5 million.

A new Sheetz at 2901 Lehigh St. is set to open on Saturday, Aug. 12. On the following Monday, Aug. 14, the store will host a grand opening event where customers can get free coffee and have a chance to win prizes.

Goo Goo Dolls, the 1990s-2000s alternative rock group who produced the platinum hits “Name,” “Iris,” “Slide,” and “Black Balloon,” has sold out its concert for tonight, Aug. 9, on Musikfest’s Steel Stage.

From lack of parking and gridlock traffic to the increased prices for headliner tickets, as well as upticks in costs for food and beverages, there are plenty of reasons why some of the Lehigh Valley’s residents don’t like — with a contingent even going so far as to actively avoid — Musikfest.

Residents gave feedback for the State Route 309 Roadway Betterment Project at a plans display Tuesday.

A National Weather Service survey team confirmed a tornado touched down in Allentown’s Midway Manor neighborhood Monday night on the east side, but the twister was unwarned.

Here are the Musikfest acts and more you should see today, Wednesday, Aug. 9.

At a town hall at Pen Argyl's Lookout Fire Co. Tuesday night, Wild fielded questions on everything from federal broadband access grants to sludge to the war in Ukraine.

Planning officials granted conditional approval for Blackstone Structures' plans to build a new mixed-use complex with dozens of apartments at the former home of Gen. Harry Trexler.