Labor Day 2013 in Bethlehem: What You Need to Know

In observance of Labor Day, government offices, schools and many businesses will be closed on Monday.

Here’s a rundown of what’s open and what’s closed:

Bethlehem Area School District schools and offices are closed. There is also no daycare in any district buildings.

Bethlehem City Hall is closed. If Monday is your normal day to have recycling picked up, it will be collected on Saturday instead.

Bethlehem Township offices are closed. Township Commissioners, who normally meet on the first Monday of the month, will meet Tuesday instead.

The courthouses, magisterial district courts and government offices for Northampton and Lehigh counties are all closed.

Federal and state government offices are closed.

Pennsylvania Department of Transportation driver's license and photo centers are closed. (Online services are available. www.dmv.state.pa.us)

Pennsylvania State Liquor Stores are closed.

There will be no LANTA bus or van service all day.

Post offices are closed, and there will be no regular mail pick up or delivery.

Most banks will be closed. Some may be open.

Most retail establishments will be open. Check with your favorite stores and restaurants individually.

If you are seeking entertainment outside of your own backyard barbecue, there are several options, including:

• The Great Allentown Fair, which wraps up its annual run with the J&J Demolition Derby and its usual array of exhibits and food.

• The ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks is open. Among the options there is “The Rise and Fall of Bethlehem Steel Walking Tour,” which will be given at 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., and would seem a fitting way to spend part of a Labor Day. The tour includes a screening of the film Bethlehem: The Christmas City. Tour tickets are $15 for adults, $7.50 for children 6-12 and free for children under 6.

• The Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas—inside the ArtsQuest Center—also feature two matinee and one evening showing each of Lee Daniels’ The Butler and Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine. Matinee tickets cost $8, $7 for ArtsQuest members.

• Finally, remember Hanson? Those three long-haired moppets who sang that song MMMBop that no one could get out of their heads once it went viral in 1997? Well, those boys are all grown up, still have a band and are recording and touring. They stop by the Sands Bethlehem Event Center for a show at 6 p.m. Tickets are $30 and $50.