{"id":131436,"date":"2026-03-06T17:06:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/131436\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T17:06:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:06:26","slug":"wawa-opens-on-lehigh-street-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/131436\/","title":{"rendered":"Wawa opens on Lehigh Street \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published March 06. 2026 11:38AM<\/p>\n<p>PRESS PHOTOS BY REBECCA FOEHRKOLBLEFT: Wawa Area Manager Michael Batey and the new store General Manager Christopher Olsson say a few words at the opening of its newest store, 3015 Lehigh St., Allentown, Feb. 26.<\/p>\n<p>ABOVE: The Keystone Kid, mascot of America 250 PA hands out T-shirts to the first 150 customers. Additional photos appear on Page A2.<\/p>\n<p>PRESS PHOTOS BY REBECCA FOEHRKOLBJim Buckles, of Fountain Hill, has a photo taken with Wally Goose, the Wawa mascot.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob and Luke Foehrkolb, of Salisbury Township, stand with Wawa mascot Wally Goose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published March 06. 2026 11:38AM PRESS PHOTOS BY REBECCA FOEHRKOLBLEFT: Wawa Area Manager Michael Batey and the new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-131436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131436","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=131436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}