{"id":75787,"date":"2026-01-01T21:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T21:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/75787\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T21:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T21:04:07","slug":"mayor-tuerk-provides-update-on-vandalism-incident-at-lights-in-the-parkway-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/75787\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Tuerk provides update on vandalism incident at Lights in the Parkway | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Allentown Mayor Matt Tuerk gave us an update on &#8220;Lights in the Parkway&#8221; following a major vandalism incident last month.<\/p>\n<p>He said it will return for the 2026 holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say a few weeks ago, crews found broken bulbs, bent poles, and ruined displays totaling more than 100,000 dollars in damage.<\/p>\n<p>It forced the attraction to close for one night.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor says the Lehigh County District Attorney&#8217;s office is investigating the vandalism incident and it will release more details when charges are formally filed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Allentown Mayor Matt Tuerk gave us an update on &#8220;Lights in the Parkway&#8221; following a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,232,153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-75787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-_homepage_top_stories","9":"tag-allentown-area","10":"tag-bethlehem","11":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","12":"tag-bethlehem-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75787","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=75787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}