Lehigh Valley Marketplace

By Kathryn D’Imperio Cameras and photography equipment allow people to capture incredible moments while photographs preserve those memories for a lifetime. Photography is a business of true emotion, and Dan’s Camera City in Allentown has known this all along. The key f ... CONTINUE READING

By Jill Spotz In the spring of 2009, Stephanie Sathmary Decker, a 1981 graduate of St. Luke’s School of Nursing, attended a taping of the television show Jeopardy. Imagine her surprise when Alex Trebec asked “Which hospital has the oldest operating nursing school in the U.S.? ... CONTINUE READING

By Susan Stets “I’m graduating from Hillside and am ready for any challenges middle school can throw at me,” wrote recent graduate David Aitchison in a paper he read at an assembly on the last day of school. David will enter seventh grade at Moravian Academy this fall.  He ... CONTINUE READING

By Melanie Gold If you ask locals which institutions make the Lehigh Valley a great place to live and do business, they’ll tell you the Allentown Fairgrounds Farmers Market is a regional jewel in the crown. Located at the Allentown Fairgrounds at 17th and Chew streets, the Farm ... CONTINUE READING

By Frederick Jerant Dorothy Gale would be relieved. You won’t find lions…or tigers…or bears (oh my!) at Wright Veterinary Medical Center, PC in Bethlehem. But many years ago, you could have found…an elephant? “Yes, an elephant,” chuckles hospital director Geoffrey H. ... CONTINUE READING

By Kathryn Finegan Clark When Joanne Kostecky made her first dry flower picture years ago she had no idea she was planting the seeds for a booming, blooming company. But there it is, Joanne Kostecky’s Garden Design on Allentown’s Hamilton Boulevard at Brookside Road. Its desi ... CONTINUE READING

By Nancy Moffett~ Tom Grello and William Lilly met more than 20 years ago when they worked together at a local HVAC company. “I had a dream,” says Grello, “of starting my own business. Bill and I had often said, ‘We ought to be doing this ourselves.’” On December 2, 1 ... CONTINUE READING

By Kathryn Finegan Clark This year, on Dec.13, Charles Dickens’ great-great grandson, Gerald Charles Dickens, will read “A Christmas Carol” at Bethlehem’s Moravian Book Shop on Main Street. The actor plays the roles of 26 characters during his dramatic presentation of the ... CONTINUE READING

By Kathryn Finegan Clark David M. Jaindl, who heads his third-generation family business, takes only a few seconds to decide what’s most exciting about his work. He smiles. “It’s Thanksgiving Day–every year. That’s what all our work, all year long–every sin ... CONTINUE READING

By Carole Gorney As the future of health care continues to be debated on Capitol Hill, the president of Coordinated Health in the Lehigh Valley says he thinks his company has exactly what “the doctor ordered” when it comes to caring for the needs of patients. David Weikel, wh ... CONTINUE READING