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Leadership of Bethlehem Firefighters Local 735 says its membership is looking forward to working alongside the city ahead of an upcoming department study.

Bethlehem City Council on Tuesday passed a nearly $113 million spending plan for 2026 that comes with no increase to property taxes.

Due to its lease not being renewed for 2024, the Pines Dinner Theatre in Allentown will be relocating.

The township planning commission voted 4-3 against recommending approval. The dissenters wanted more information following safety and traffic concerns around the intersection of Willow Park Road and Freemansburg Avenue.

Bethlehem City Council voted 4-1 last week to allow a retiring police officer the chance to buy his duty handgun at fair market value. One panel member was vocal in her disapproval.

A 120-unit, mixed-income apartment complex with affordable housing provisions would bring new life to a mostly triangular nook of land at the end of East Fourth Street in South Bethlehem.

Mayor David Heintzelman said adding two full-time police officers would prevent excess overtime and ensure the safety of both residents and the officers themselves, all while remaining fiscally responsible.

The Archibald Johnston Mansion in Bethlehem Township has stood for more than a century and has been the focus of renovations by the nonprofit Archie Project. The 6,000-square-foot home has 22 rooms and a cellar.

At a nine-hour council meeting on Wednesday, Lower Saucon Township officials voted 3-2 to offer the township manager job to Sheldon Hudson, of Millsboro, Delaware, at a salary of $155,000. The previously announced new manager declined the offer.

Scott Slingerland, executive director of recipient nonprofit Coalition for Appropriate Transportation, said, “It’s cool how everybody’s a piece of the puzzle in terms of supporting the community. We all do totally different things, but it all makes up the whole.”