Continuing to build on its development of its LR Electric refuse truck, Mack Trucks said it has delivered a pre-model of the truck to Republic Services to begin in-service trials.

Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeast Pennsylvania has announced that this year’s Venture Idol competition will go on, but like most events, this year’s competition will be virtual.

Kim I. Plyler, is the CEO of SahlComm Inc., a creative communications and public relations firm based in Bethlehem.  Sahl Communications Inc. is a Women-Owned Small Businesses (WOSB), Veteran-Owned Small Businesses, and the Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE) communications and public relations firm founded in 2009

Two Lehigh Valley health care providers have made the first ever Newsweek list of Best Physical Rehabilitation Centers. Good Shepherd Rehabilitation of Allentown and Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest both made the Top 10 list of providers of inpatient rehabilitation care in Pennsylvania for 2020.

Mack Trucks said it has completed an $84 million renovation project at its Lehigh Valley Operations in Lower Macungie Township, a project the truck manufacturer dubbed “Reborn.”

Organizers are gearing up for the second annual StartUp Lehigh Valley, which will be hosted – virtually --by Bethlehem-based food, beverage and pet industry incubator, The Factory LLC.

Dave & Buster’s Whitehall is now hiring 120 people to work at the food and entertainment destination. Recently constructed at the entrance to the Lehigh Valley Mall, it is the first Dave & Buster’s in the Lehigh Valley.

The Lehigh Northampton Airport Authority reported this week that 25,116 passengers traveled out of the airport during the month of August.

The Bethlehem Venture X, which is at 306 S. New St. in Bethlehem in the recently built gateway building, was designed by Spillman Farmer Architects.

Mack Truck has announced that it will commercialize the Mack LR Electric refuse truck it has been testing, and the trucks will be manufactured in the Lehigh Valley.