The first Pennsylvania’s counties are set to go to the green phase under Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to reopen Pennsylvania.

As summer officially begins, now would be the time of the year when people get to enjoy their favorite festival food, but like with many things, the COVID-19 pandemic is cancelling most fairs and festivals in the area at least for the short term.

Gov. Tom Wolf will move the remaining 18 currently red-phase counties situated in the south-central and southeast of the state into phase yellow on June 5, according to an announcement by Lancaster County Commissioner Josh Parsons.

Seifi Ghasemi will remain president, chairman and CEO of Air Products in Trexlertown for at least the next five years. The company’s board of directors has extended his contract through Sept. 30, 2025.

The Carbon Chamber & Economic Development Corp. is declaring Saturday Carbon County Strong Day to celebrate the county’s shift to the yellow phase of the state’s COVID-19 mitigation plan starting today.

Memorial Day weekend should mean the official opening of the summer season for Pennsylvania’s amusement parks, but this year the festivities are at a standstill. Those who run the parks don’t know when or if they can open for the year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hershey CEO Michele Buck defended her company’s support for LGBTQ equality at a May 12 annual shareholder meeting after a conservative activist challenged The Hershey Company’s donations to the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ advocacy group based in Washington D.C.  

South Whitehall Township Commissioners approved the Hotel Hamilton project, which will bring a 100-room extended-stay hotel, bank and pharmacy to a 5.36 acre tract of land on the corner of Hamilton Boulevard and Cedar Crest.

Child care providers in Monroe County are set to receive $560,000 in CARES Act funding, part of a $51 million package meant to support almost 7,000 such facilities across the commonwealth.

Governor Wolf has now signed the bill allowing bars and restaurants to sell cocktails-to-go during the COVID-19 shutdown.