{"id":61117,"date":"2025-12-15T03:21:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T03:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/61117\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T03:21:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T03:21:26","slug":"lights-in-the-parkway-in-allentown-postponed-due-to-vandalism-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/61117\/","title":{"rendered":"Lights in the Parkway, in Allentown, postponed due to vandalism \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in Allentown, on Sunday, said they were canceling the popular Lights in the Parkway event for the evening due to &#8220;significant vandalism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a post online, Allentown officials said that vandals pushed port-a-potties into the river, bent light poles and posts and crushed hundreds of light bulbs that, on a typical evening would light up the night. <\/p>\n<p>Officials said the parks team is working to assess all of the damage and the attraction would be closed on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025, due to the incident. <\/p>\n<p>Officials aren&#8217;t sure if Lights on the Parkway will return on Monday, Dec. 15, 2025 or not. <\/p>\n<p>As they determine the extent of the damage, officials said, they would provide an update on the situation in the near future. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has tickets to Lights in the Parkway on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025, is asked to contact the parks office in Allentown at 610-437-7757 or email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/allentowns-lights-in-the-parkway-postponed-due-to-vandalism\/4316664\/mailto:events@allentownpa.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">events@allentownpa.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who may have information on the recent vandalism is asked to contact the Allentown Police Department 610-437-7753 or submit tips anonymously <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allentownpa.gov\/police\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"www.allentownpa.gov\/police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials in Allentown, on Sunday, said they were canceling the popular Lights in the Parkway event for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,157],"class_list":{"0":"post-61117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-lehigh-valley"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61117","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=61117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}