“Our people stepped up to the plate,” Ross Born, CEO of Just Born said. “We didn’t skip a beat. I did not hear, ‘Well, we can’t do that.’ There was a can-do attitude of ‘We will figure out how to do that.”

Work will include milling, concrete patching, paving, joint cleaning and sealing, repairs to bridges, new pavement markings and guide rail updates on U.S. 22 between Interstate 78 and 15th Street in Whitehall, South Whitehall and Upper Macungie townships.

The museum, located on former Bethlehem Steel property, broke ground on a $275,000 project to turn 17,000 square feet of the museum’s property into a park area where visitors can watch industrial machinery from Bethlehem Steel and other industrial manufacturers take raw materials and turn them into finished products.

There’s still a sizable gap between the employment rate of individuals with disabilities and those without. Barriers remain, whether it’s transportation issues or some other hurdle. Attitudes have definitely changed, however, and that is translating into more job opportunities. 

The number of Americans applying for unemployment dropped last week, slipping below 1 million for the first time since the economic shutdown sparked by the coronavirus pandemic began in the spring.

After being closed since mid-March because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Fox Theatres of Wyomissing said that it will reopen Friday, Aug. 21, one day after national theater chain, AMC said it will be reopening.

A number of Greater Lehigh Valley companies have made the Inc. 5000, a national ranking of the fastest-growing private companies.

Shift4 Payments, an Allentown-based e-payment processing solutions provider, is integrating its digital restaurant marketplace with Uber Eats to create what the companies say will be an efficient ordering and delivery process for Shift4’s restaurant clients.

The competition, during which teams pitched their businesses to a panel of judges and answered their questions, was open to students currently enrolled or who have graduated within the past three years from Albright College, Alvernia University, Kutztown University, Penn State Berks or Reading Area Community College.

The Tribune Co., owner of the Morning Call, confirmed that it will be shuttering the doors of the daily newspaper’s offices at 101 North Sixth Street in Allentown.