What’s open and closed on Christmas Eve and Christmas 2020 in the Lehigh Valley
Updated Dec 24, 2020;
Posted Dec 24, 2020
Many places will be closed Friday, Dec. 25, 2020 in celebration of the religious holiday and worldwide cultural and commercial phenomenon.
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Christmas is both a religious holiday and a worldwide cultural and commercial phenomenon.
For two millennia, people worldwide have been observing it with a variety of traditions and practices, according to a history.com report. Christians celebrate the day as the anniversary of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, a spiritual leader whose teachings form the basis of their religion.
Pennsylvania is in a “precarious place” with the coronavirus, Gov. Tom Wolf last month began advising residents to stay home whenever possible during the holidays and moved forward with other measures to limit the spread of COVID-19. The governor, however, has not mandated residents stay-at-home as ordered during the March sh
Murphy USA announced Monday an agreement to acquire QuickChek Corporation in an all-cash transaction for $645 million.
The purchase price includes expected tax benefits valued at $20 million for a net after-tax purchase price of $625 million.
The transaction will be financed with a combination of cash on hand, existing credit facilities and new debt, and El Dorado-based Murphy USA has obtained committed financing from the Royal Bank of Canada.
A statement from Murphy USA said that QuickChek represents a truly distinctive business in a class shared by only a few comparable industry peers.
Founded in 1967 as an extension of Durling Farms, a door-to-door milk and fresh dairy products delivery service that originally opened in 1888, it is a family-owned chain of 157 stores located in central and northern New Jersey and the New York metro area.