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Members of the Hellertown Planning Commission heard plans from Greystone Capital Inc. to build a 142-unit apartment complex at the former site of Neighbors Home & Garden, located at 42 Main Street in Hellertown, at their Tuesday night meeting.
With the holiday gift-buying season just a few months away, a pop-up store specializing in books, calendars, toys and games has opened at the Promenade Shops at Saucon Valley.
If you’re planning an end-of-summer beach retreat you may want to remove unwanted hair before you travel there, and a new business at the Promenade Shops wants to help.
If you’re one of the thousands of people living along the Rt. 378 corridor, you probably already know that when it comes to hand-dipped ice cream treats, the picking are fairly slim unless you’re willing to drive at least a few miles away. That’s about to change thanks to Ann Takacs, who owns Art Cafe in the Black River Plaza.
If you regularly drive through the Coopersburg area, you’ve probably noticed construction under way on a Wawa at the corner of Rt. 309 and Passer Road in Upper Saucon Township.
As summer begins to wind down the days are also starting to grow noticeably shorter, which makes August an optimal time for enjoying movies outdoors. That’s exactly what local residents were able to do Friday evening, when the Hellertown-Lower Saucon Chamber of Commerce in partnership with Mobile Technology Graphics showed the movie ‘Paddington’ in the borough’s Dimmick Park.
Wednesday was an important day in the nearly 30-year history of Hampton Winds, a teaching restaurant attached to Northampton Community College’s culinary arts program that was closed for nearly 18 months due to the coronavirus pandemic and an extensive renovation project.
A distributor of shipping, industrial and packaging materials to businesses throughout North America hopes to fill 100 local warehouse positions by Aug. 31, with the promise that new hires will be eligible to receive a company-wide $8,000 end-of-year bonus.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a blessing in disguise for Samantha O’Donnell. She lost her job as an interior designer in October 2020, but took advantage of the opportunity to start a new business doing something about which she has always been passionate.
Perhaps due to the large number of people who continue to receive unemployment compensation there has recently been an uptick in reports of phony UC claims. As a result, some area police departments are urging the public to report anything suspicious to the appropriate agency, as well as to local law enforcement officials, if required.
We recently asked readers to tell us who has the best Italian food (other than pizza) in the Saucon Valley and Southern Lehigh school districts by voting in our restaurant survey. The very best, according to readers, is at …
