{"id":77883,"date":"2026-01-05T00:23:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T00:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/77883\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T00:23:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T00:23:06","slug":"ymca-branch-in-catasauqua-closes-after-50-years-of-service-northampton-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/77883\/","title":{"rendered":"YMCA branch in Catasauqua closes after 50 years of service | Northampton County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CATASAUQUA, Pa. &#8211; A long-standing branch of the YMCA in Lehigh County is no more.<\/p>\n<p>The Suburban North branch on Walnut Street in Catasauqua closed its doors for good on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Y has been part of the community for more than 50 years, starting up back in 1966.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of several in the River Crossing YMCA network.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say enrollment at the Catty branch is low, and it costs too much to keep the place open.<\/p>\n<p>Suburban North members are being given the opportunity to try another River Crossing branch for free for three months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CATASAUQUA, Pa. &#8211; A long-standing branch of the YMCA in Lehigh County is no more. The Suburban North&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-77883","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-bethlehem","10":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","11":"tag-bethlehem-news","12":"tag-northampton-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77883","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=77883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}