Jason Addy
Allentown Area reporterI cover Allentown and have worked for news outlets in Pennsylvania, Chicago and Minneapolis since graduating from Penn State. It’s great to be much closer to home — I was born and raised in Lehighton — and I’m excited to help share Allentown’s stories. If you've got an idea, I want to hear it. You can reach me any time at jasona@lehighvalleynews.com.
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PPL announced Thursday it plans to move its longtime headquarters this fall to Two City Center, at Seventh and Hamilton streets. -
Officials postponed two Allentown City Council meetings until June 13 with the region under a “code red” air quality alert Wednesday.
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The Sixth Street Shelter has helped thousands of people get back on their feet since opening in 1984, according to the organization’s leader.
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Thousands of residents signed petitions in support of the measure, which Allentown Police Chief Charles Roca labeled as “defund-the-police rhetoric.”
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Those 180 units would be split evenly across four large buildings, according to the developer’s initial plans.
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Newly reformed Lehigh County Redevelopment Authority gets back to work, and jumps into first projectThe authority was first established in 1986, but it had been defunct for about a decade until recently. The Iron Works Project in Catasauqua is its first order of business.
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Allentown Mayor Matt Tuerk met up with his counterparts from Scranton and Williamsport on Wednesday as part of a tour to highlight projects funded by the American Rescue Plan Act.
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All primary results in Lehigh and Northampton counties are now official after election workers ran audits and validated totals over the past two weeks.
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City Council members Ce-Ce Gerlach, Santo Napoli and Candida Affa finished as the top three vote-getters in more than a third of Allentown's precincts in their bids for re-election.
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The chain of more than 40 trumpeters — ranging in age from 11 to 76 — stretched several miles to Bethlehem's Memorial Park Cemetery, where Taps Over Bethlehem founder Dan Deysher was laid to rest.
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Un pequeño grupo se sumó esta semana al creciente número de personas desalojadas de campamentos en Allentown, en plena Semana Nacional de Concientización sobre el Hambre y las Personas sin Hogar.
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A small group this week joined the growing number of people evicted from homeless camps in Allentown in recent months — amid National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week.
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District officials plan to issue bonds to pay for the project, which could slightly increase property taxes.
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El plan Safe Streets for All señala que el doble sentido reduce la velocidad, mejora la movilidad y aumenta el flujo peatonal y la visibilidad comercial.
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Two-way traffic slows down traffic, improves mobility for drivers and cyclists, and helps boost foot traffic and visibility for businesses, according to the city's Safe Streets for All plan.
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El concejal Santo Napoli propone subir medio punto el impuesto de transferencia en Allentown, duplicando los ingresos municipales.
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Councilman Santo Napoli is proposing — and five of his six colleagues are co-sponsoring — a measure that would raise the city’s deed-transfer tax by half a percentage point, doubling its revenues.
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El plan preliminar surge de una serie de reuniones públicas de amplia participación realizadas durante el último año.
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Cuadrillas de Allentown limpiarán otro campamento la próxima semana tras concluir labores en Jordan Creek, entre Union y Hamilton Street.
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The draft plan is the product of a series of well-attended public-input meetings over the past year.
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City crews are due to clear another camp next week after finishing their work along Jordan Creek from Union Street to Hamilton Street.
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"Si mi voto es el decisivo, les ahorro la incertidumbre: No va a pasar. No sucederá", Concejala Cynthia Motaadvirtió en su discurso electoral.
