My Sister’s Closet has relocated to the Bethlehem Village Shoppes at 3650 Nazareth Pike in Bethlehem Township. The resale boutique offers funding and employment for feminine survivors of intercourse trafficking within the Lehigh Valley. The shop is a part of Bloom for Girls Inc., a non-profit group that gives sanctuary and care for girls survivors of intercourse trafficking. Bloom additionally operates a studio in Bangor.

The brand new location for My Sister’s Closet, which has operated for 14 years, offers visibility from the highway and area for storage of donations of clothes and niknaks.

The Easton Farmers’ Market will open Might 7 at Scott Park alongside Larry Holmes Drive, and be open Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. This season, the market can be host to 45 distributors, 14 of them new.

Free parking is again too. The oldest steady open-air farmers’ market within the U.S. is again for its 270th season.

JPMorgan Chase & Co., the largest financial institution within the U.S., is coming to downtown Allentown. The financial institution’s plan for a department at Seventh and Linden streets has been authorised by a federal regulator. The financial institution can be on the primary flooring of The Hive, a Metropolis Heart Funding Corp. growth that may comprise about 250 flats.

Juliette Bridals by Ivana has a brand new location and can maintain a ribbon chopping Might 19 at 161 Genworth Highway, Pottsville, with the Schuylkill Chamber of Commerce. The occasion is open to all, and light-weight refreshments can be served. Register by means of the chamber web site. Juliette Bridals says it has served three generations of Schuylkill County brides, and it additionally carries promenade robes and tuxedos.

Vinyl Press Indicators & Graphics has moved to fifteen S. Second St. in Emmaus. Enterprise companions Michael Irwin and Chris Kline will maintain a grand opening Might 5 from 4:30 p.m. to six p.m., with a ribbon chopping at 5:30.

Wert’s Cafe is again after a short closing following the loss of life of proprietor Greg Wert. The North 18th Road, Allentown, restaurant closed for every week after Wert’s loss of life at age 59 and reopened Monday.

The cafe was based in 1968 by Fred and Connie Wert. Greg Wert was certainly one of their three kids. A whole bunch of shoppers and associates took to social media to specific condolences after his passing.

The 3350 Schoenersville Highway, Bethlehem, location of 3 Males & A Bagel is again open after a short closing for surgical procedure for the baker. 3 Males & A Bagel additionally has a Trexlertown location.

Decrease Macungie’s Planning Fee has raised issues a couple of Wawa with drive-thru solely — no gasoline pumps or comfort retailer — proposed for the Trexler Enterprise Heart on Hamilton Boulevard. This Wawa would solely have drive-through and curbside pickup service for meals and drinks. The fee questioned the quantity of parking supplied for workers and visitors circulation across the web site.

The one different drive-thru solely Wawa is in Falls Township, Bucks County. Wawa opened its first retailer in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, in 1964 and now operates greater than 960 shops in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Florida and Washington, D.C. The comfort chain’s web site didn’t present any updates this week on the numerous shops deliberate for the Lehigh Valley. Wawa is trying into including shops in Decrease Nazareth Township, Hanover Township (Northampton County), South Whitehall off Route 309 and in Bethlehem, close to the Hellertown border.

A Royal Farms comfort retailer and gasoline station is headed to the location of the Brass Rail in Allentown. The chain’s plan for a retailer on the Rail’s Lehigh Road web site. The restaurant can be demolished. It is because of shut June 4 after greater than 90 years of serving clients. In accordance with the Brass Rail web site, the restaurant launched the cheese steak to Allentown.

Work on Royal Farms is because of begin this 12 months. The chain is understood for its fried rooster. Royal Farms has additionally proposed opening a Bethlehem web site on Avenue A close to Airport Highway, within the Lehigh County portion of town.

King Wing has opened at 129 E. Third St. in south Bethlehem. Because the title signifies, buffalo wings, together with sandwiches, burgers and cheesesteaks are on the menu.

The wing joint has 5 ranges of sauces, from honey hickory by means of extreme BBQ and extreme Buffalo and extra. King Wing is provided to serve a crowd, with 50 bone-in or boneless wings with three sauces going for $59.99. There are additionally smaller parts. Sandwiches value $8.95 to $9.95, whereas wraps value $7.99.

Whereas new eating places hold opening, others say employees shortages stay an issue. Ella’s Ristorante & Pizzeria at 639 Important St. in Hellertown posted on social media that it has closed indefinitely “resulting from excessive understaffing points.”

Elpedio’s Ristorante will open Might 1 on the web site of the Seipsville Inn in Palmer Township. The menu posted on-line contains basic Italian dishes similar to fettuccine alfredo, rooster and veal marsala, together with beef and pork dishes, shrimp and pesci di mare, a mixture of shrimp, cod, mussels, white wine and pasta. Vegetable entrees embody eggplant parmigiana and stuffed portobello.

Elpedio’s additionally could have a kids’s menu.

The restaurant will serve Sunday brunch from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

An previous Kmart at Shillington Plaza in Cumru Township, Berks County will reopen as an Ocean State Job Lot, a Rhode Island-based low cost retailer. The chain with 147 areas throughout the Northeast promotes its low cost costs on kitchen staples, pet provides, meals and seasonal merchandise, together with vacation objects and an “ever-changing array” of family items.

Ocean State has a retailer in Wind Hole. The Berks County retailer is because of open someday this summer season.

Obsidian Tattoo & Piercing Parlor of Bethlehem has expanded to Emmaus. The 173 Important St. location is open now, with a grand opening to be held in the summertime. The unique 330 W. Broad St., Bethlehem, location stays open seven days per week.

The New Santiago’s Restaurant at 125 S. Third St. in Coopersburg has reopened after a couple of 12 months off. Final weekend, Santiago’s was serving dinner specials together with open-face turkey or roast beef, macaroni and cheese with stewed tomatoes, and grilled rooster had been $13.95.

Santiago’s present posted hours are 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., Sunday by means of Wednesday, and seven a.m. to eight p.m. Thursday by means of Saturday.

Berks Nature opened The Rookery, an extension of the conservancy’s headquarters, final month. The Rookery is in Angelica Creek Park, on prime of the prevailing Nature Place construction. If includes a rooftop patio and indoor assembly space that may accommodate as many as 300 folks.

The brand new area permits for expanded instructional packages and greater non-public occasions. It’s fabricated from sustainable supplies.