Falls Township extends outdoor dining through June 2021 buckslocalnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from buckslocalnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Idea to drop Bethlehem’s open-container law to encourage bar patronage met with skepticism
Updated Dec 22, 2020;
Posted Dec 22, 2020
With the winter severely slowing business in downtown Bethlehem, City Council member Bryan Callahan proposed relaxing the open container laws to encourage supporting restaurants and other downtown businesses. But the suggestion didn t make much traction at the final council meeting of the year.Saed Hindash | For lehighvalleylive.com
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With the temperature dropping outside and indoor dining shut down for the near future, the holidays have become dire for many of the Lehigh Valley’s restaurants and bars, even more so than the last nine months already have been.
Bucks seeks state guidance on how to enforce gym, restaurant shutdown order lancasterfarming.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lancasterfarming.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Bucks County will seek further guidance from the state on how it should enforce Gov. Tom Wolf s latest order that restaurants, gyms and entertainment venues need to shut down until Jan. 4.
County Commissioner Chairwoman Diane Ellis-Marseglia said Wednesday that the commissioners have received far too many emails and calls from people upset with the order that Wolf issued last week, and that the county needed further guidance from the state.
Marseglia said she is a gym member and patronizes restaurants, but she understands the need to keep people safe and that it s only fair that all businesses need to comply.
A vast majority of Pennsylvania businesses are following new mitigation orders from Gov. Tom Wolfâs administration that have temporarily closed many of their doors until Jan. 4 to try to get COVID-19 under control, according to the state police.
âItâs not the fault of restaurant and bar, or gym owners or their employees that COVID-19 spreads easily in these conditions â itâs the nature of the disease,â Ryan Tarkowski, communications director, Pennsylvania State Police, said.
Previously, the state police placed an emphasis on educating the general public about the COVID mitigation orders, focusing on personal responsibility and urging Pennsylvanians to do the right thing, he said.