Everyone wants to live, work, and play in a clean and green community! You can help by participating in the 2012 Great American Cleanup of PA from March 1 – May 31. Clean up litter along roads, streams, parks, forests and neighborhoods. Registered events can get free cleanup supplies like bags, gloves, and vests that [...]
Streets Department Announces Rehabilitation Work for the Retaining Wall along Lincoln Drive Streets Commissioner Clarena Tolson announced today that emergency repair work on the retaining wall supporting Lincoln Drive between W. Rittenhouse Street and Forbidden Drive will begin Tuesday, February 7 and is expected to last approximately two months. The work includes the rehabilitation and stabilization [...]
A grand opening ceremony is planned for Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. to officially open the first segment of the Jordan Creek Greenway & Trail. The 1.27-mile segment is within Lehigh County’s Jordan Creek Parkway and is the first part of a proposed 53.3-mile active greenway that will connect the City of Allentown [...]
This year, the Friends of the Wissahickon, (FOW) is embarking on the first park census since 1994, and the first park user survey since 2006. FOW will be using a combination of trail counters in 10 locations in tandem with volunteer survey teams that will perform a physical count of visitors to the Wissahickon Valley [...]
I had a bit of time to kill after some school site visits the other day, and I was looking for some time in the dirt. My ride from Tuesday was cut out by a colossal meeting between my dogs front tooth, the palm of my hand, and a trip to the local ER, so [...]
One of the best parts of my lifestyle right now is that I get to see a lot of truly amazing places that I’ve never been to before: constantly seeing new things. I love it. In the past few weeks I’ve been a couple new places and done a few new things that I think [...]
