The Whitehall Area Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at its new office May 19. WACC is now in Suite B10 of the Fullerton Building at 881 Third St., Whitehall. Pictured from left to right: Dianne Fran; Mario Stuart, board member; Mary Jo Roma, board member; Faye Westover; Christine Muller, assistant at the chamber; Vince O’Domski, district director, U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent’s office; Donna Braden; Ann Marie Slavick, Whitehall Chamber executive; Eric Eberhardt, vice...

Rettew Charitable Foundation, a mission of the engineering firm Rettew – which has Lehigh Valley and Berks County offices – awarded $5,000 in grant funding to the Little Lehigh Chapter of Trout Unlimited, which it will use for a restoration project. The effort will result in 350 native trees and shrubs planted along a segment of the Little Lehigh Creek. Boy Scout Troop 131 of Wescosville will help with the planting. Luke Portieles, a geologist in Rettew’s Lehigh Valley office,...

The 100th birthday of an iconic product manufactured in the Lehigh Valley and a first-time film effort by a local marketing firm brought together more than 130 people at SteelStacks in Bethlehem to celebrate the history and impact of the Martin Guitar Dreadnought.

We all screamed for orange cream and now A-Treat is selling it.

Air Products and Chemicals Inc. of Trexlertown has created a new business. The company announced this week that it has launched a hydrogen services business as part of its customer plant support.

It’s one thing to design a sign for a customer. It’s quite another to initiate site surveys, obtain permits and see a project through from design and manufacture to installation and ongoing maintenance, as well as ensure consistent branding of signs at multiple locations.

Walking into K&H Custom Window Treatments on Trexlertown Road in Lower Macungie Township, it would be easy to mistake the business as a quaint gift shop or a homey design studio.

It doesn’t deliver the delicate sound of a hard-boiled egg tapped on the edge of a kitchen counter, but an alternative yolk created by a Monroe County entrepreneur could become a sizzling success among vegans, vegetarians and those on a cholesterol-free diet.

Small businesses are formed out of an entrepreneur’s desire to create a product or service that people need and want.