The City of Allentown’s Seventh Street Development Committee and Hamilton District Main Street Program have been designated as accredited National Main Street Programs for meeting the commercial district revitalization performance standards set by the Nat...

The City of Allentown Department of Parks & Recreation is busy getting swimming pools ready for the 2013 season. Cedar, Jordan and Irving pools will open on Saturday, June 8. Mack Pool will open on Saturday, June 15.

City of Allentown Mayor’s Special Assistant Ismael Arcelay is extending office hours to city neighborhoods beginning Wednesday, June 5. Arcelay will entertain issues from his Mayor’s Office of Constituent Services from various locations in the city on tw...

The Allentown Police Department honored more than 50 officers and members of the public at a 90 minute commendation and award presentation ceremony and memorial service today at the Scottish Rite Cathedral.

The search is beginning for the next police chief in the City of Allentown. Mayor Ed Pawlowski announced at an afternoon news conference that Robert Wasserman and his Massachusetts-based Strategic Policy Partnership would be starting the process of recrui...

The multi-story set of buildings at 332-348 Front and W. Gordon streets (a.k.a. Ribbon Works) that were built to house the old Weilbacher Silk Mill business in the city of Allentown will be demolished by the city for safety reasons.