Step inside the first floor of the historic Easton Dollar Savings & Trust building – a beautiful three-story stone structure located at 8 Centre Square – and you may suddenly feel as if you’ve been transported into Manhattan’s Soho art scene. The high white walls display an assortment of eye-catching paintings and artistic creations, while the wide-open, refreshingly a... »
Watching professional athletes in motion is nothing short of inspiring. The recent U.S. Women’s National Team victory in the 2015 Women’s World Cup is just one example of how girls with guts get the glory. Think of all the Olympians, female golfers in the LPGA, and women in countless other sports and athletic endeavors, even nonprofessional sports. The common denominators ... »
Grasping the scope of hunger in America can be daunting. According to the Food Research and Action Center, about one in six Americans was sometimes unable to buy necessary food last year. And in a nation of nearly 320 million, that represents over 5 million hungry people. It’s even more widespread in the Lehigh Valley. Estimates show that up to 25% of Allentown’s residents... »
Dear Readers, I live in a house full of sports fans. Some of us play sports, some of us love to watch them. Anyone who knows me knows that I bleed Phillie red. As a lifetime Buffalo Bills fan, my husband has permanent scars from the early ‘90s when “his” team lost four Super Bowls… in a row. And, I, now a Bills fan, have never seen my team win a playoff game. We live and d... »
Siddhi Pai, 5. Cade Brandon, 11. Grace Walker, 18. Marilyn Heffner, 63. Lehigh Valley Marketplace would like to congratulate our Color the Cover winners! We received hundreds of entries this year. Our four winners’ creations were chosen as staff favorites in their age categories. Thank you to everyone who participated. We can’t wait for next year! Visit our Facebook to vie... »
I am not usually a fan of sports bars. However, over the years, I have stopped by the Copperhead Grille on Airport Road many times. This is a convenient location with an eclectic menu and an interesting Lehigh Valley history to boot. This is NOT a sports bar chain but a family-owned and operated brand with two locations. Tom and I stopped in early on a Wednesday evening an... »
Bullying shouldn’t be just another hurdle to jump as our kids are coming of age. It’s a flaw in our culture that parents should help to extinguish from the earliest onset. Recent data from the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) shows that 22% of students age 12 to 18 reported being bullied in school. That’s a rate of nearly one o... »
The best home furnishings and décor don’t mean much if the room isn’t properly lit. Interior lighting helps to create just the right ambiance for the different rooms in your home. Lights provide illumination for the various tasks you might handle, whether preparing meals, reading, crafting or something else entirely. Specialty light fixtures add to the décor of your home, ... »
A suburb of Allentown, Lower Macungie Township is one of the largest municipalities in the Lehigh Valley today. Originally inhabited by Lenni Lenape tribes, the name “Macungie” comes from the Native American word meaning “bear swamp” or “place of the bear”. While many historians attributed this name to the animal’s local abundance, several researchers recently discovered a... »
Typical foreign-language lessons start with words or simple phrases – ¡Buenos días! ¡Buenas tardes! ¡Buenas noches! – gradually building into sentences, and reinforced with tiresome drilling on verb conjugation, noun genders and the like. But imagine walking into a classroom for the first time and discovering that the entire curriculum – including textbooks, signs and even... »
