Stimulus offers Bethlehem schools shot at cleaner air
Updated Mar 16, 2021;
The Bethlehem Area School District plans to use its estimated $49 million in federal stimulus dollars to accelerate the replacement of six schools’ HVAC systems and to combat COVID-19 related learning loss amongst its students.
The HVAC replacements at Farmersville, Miller Heights, James Buchanan, Calypso and Hanover and Governor Wolf elementary schools have been languishing for years on the district’s capital plan, which calls for the eventual replacement of all of its HVAC systems.
Bethlehem’s been tackling an HVAC replacement or two a year to spread out the cost and has weighed taking out a $10 million bond to fund HVAC projects.
Superintendent Joseph Roy said there is a serious need to get students back to in-person learning, and given the changing dynamics of the pandemic, local and national health experts see a path to allow children back in the classroom.
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New businesses eligible for rent relief under plan to reduce vacant Bethlehem storefronts
Updated Mar 10, 2021;
A new program aims to reduce empty storefronts in the Southside Bethlehem and Northside 2027 business corridors while financially supporting new business owners.
Community Action Development Corporation of Bethlehem (CADCB), a subsidiary of Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley, has launched the Commercial Lease Subsidy Program to attract new and expanding businesses to those areas.
The program provides financial support to a minimum of seven businesses during their first six months in operation. Selected businesses will receive 100% of rent payments up to $1,500 monthly for their first three months and 50% of rent payments up to $750 months for their next three months. The lease payments will be made for six consecutive months, under the program.
Take a look inside the Northampton County clinic set up to vaccinate teachers (PHOTOS)
Updated Mar 11, 2021;
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Lehigh Valley teachers and other school employees are set to begin receiving the COVID-19 vaccine on Friday at a clinic hosted by Colonial Intermediate Unit 20.
The IU’s Colonial Academy outside Wind Gap has been set up for the Pennsylvania National Guard and state contractor AMI Healthcare LLC to administer the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine through March 19.
Set to receive the vaccine at the clinic are about 4,500 eligible school employees and contractors from the public and non-public local education agencies served by Colonial IU 20.