Flexicon Corp. of Bethlehem Township is expanding. The manufacturer of bulk handling equipment for the manufacturing industry has outgrown its current headquarters in Lehigh Valley Industrial Park VI and will move into a 50,000-plus-square-foot space about two doors down from the existing Emrick Boulevard space owned by developer J.G. Petrucci Co.

Lehigh Valley Physician Group is re-opening more than 50 LVPG practices across the Valley that were closed in early April due to the coronavirus outbreak and social distancing measures.

Victaulic in Easton has named Rick Bucher president and COO.

Pennsylvania’s Attorney General Josh Shapiro is urging landlords across the state to not begin any new eviction proceedings until at least July 15. One Easton landlords sees the possible negative consequences of such a move.

As Pennsylvania slowly begins the process of reopening in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation will be getting back to work Friday.

“I’m announcing an audit of the state’s handling of the business waiver program for businesses closed under Gov. Wolf’s shutdown order,” Auditor General Eugene DePasquale said in a virtual press conference Thursday morning.

The owner of the family-operated Chaar, a Lehigh Valley-based chain of pet supply stores, said his company was thriving in the opening months of 2020. Then, the COVID-19 crisis hit. Chaar disagrees with the state's handling of the crisis and says that "the way things were done created a disaster for our economy."

In a message on the resort’s website, Wind Creek Casino Resort CEO Jay Dorris outlined tentative ways to gradually reopen the resort, including gambling by appointment.

It was in the early 2000s that the Right to Repair issue started taking hold, said Emma Horst-Martz, campaign associate with PennPIRG, the Pennsylvania branch of the U.S. PIRG, a consumer advocacy organization.

Prior to joining GRCA, for the past five years, Gerlach was the president and CEO of the Business-Industry Political Action Committee (BIPAC) in Washington, DC- a non-profit corporation helping companies and trade associations communicate with their employees on a non-partisan basis about important policy issues  and candidates for public office, and motivating them to be engaged advocates and voters.