{"id":105006,"date":"2026-02-04T16:11:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/105006\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T16:11:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:11:36","slug":"allentown-to-name-plaza-in-honor-of-former-pennsylvania-senator-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/105006\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown to name plaza in honor of former Pennsylvania senator | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa.\u00a0\u2013 Allentown City Council voted Wednesday to adopt a resolution to approve the dedication and naming of the plaza in front of the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davincisciencecenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Da Vinci Science Center at PPL Pavilion<\/a> after Pennsylvania Secretary of Revenue Pat Browne and his wife Heather.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.revenue.pa.gov\/AboutUs\/ExecutiveOffice\/Pages\/Secretary-of-Revenue.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Secretary Browne<\/a> also served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and later as a Pennsylvania senator.<\/p>\n<p>Council said the naming is in recognition of the Browne&#8217;s dedication to enhancing educational opportunities for Allentown students and the families.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution states: &#8220;Secretary Pat Browne and his wife Heather have made significant contributions to education for young people and to the city of Allentown in general; Secretary Browne worked in governmental space where an elected official actually led and governed, shaping Allentown and the Lehigh Valley in a way that will be hard to match.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Browne family also supported the construction of the new Da Vinci Science Center.<\/p>\n<p>Driving safety<\/p>\n<p>In other business, council voted to adopt a resolution to support Pennsylvania Senate Bill 37, which would prohibit the use of handheld interactive wireless communication devices while operating a motor vehicle on state roadways.<\/p>\n<p>Councilmember Santo Napoli praised state elected officials who are pushing the bill forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Traffic safety continues to be an issue in our city, and this is something that hopefully will help with reducing some of these tragedies that occur in our streets on a regular basis,&#8221; Napoli said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa.\u00a0\u2013 Allentown City Council voted Wednesday to adopt a resolution to approve the dedication and naming of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,2748,121,120,50573,50574,12214,28,5634,14932],"class_list":["post-105006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-city-council","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-hand-held-interactive-wireless-communication-devices","tag-heather-browne","tag-pat-browne","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-house-of-representatives","tag-santo-napoli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}