March 30, 2026
— Jeff Ward, Lehigh Valley News Briefs
Allen Township will review a transfer of a liquor license to Wawa on Stonegate Drive in the township from Skeggy’s Axe House in Easton.
The Board of Supervisors will meet April 14 to consider the request to switch the restaurant liquor license to the convenience store, according to a legal notice posted by the township.
Municipal approval is required when liquor licenses are moved from other towns. That approval is usually a formality, but the public hearing gives neighbors and others an opportunity to raise objections.
Wawa, Sheetz and other stores have been adding alcohol sales as “Convenience-Store Wars” rage in the Lehigh Valley, and new, bigger stores are built.
The Allen Township Board of Supervisors will meet at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 14, at the municipal building, 50 Snow Hill Road, Northampton, to consider the transfer. The hearing is open to the public.
What is now Wawa started as a textile mile in New Jersey in 1803. When it became Wawa Dairy Farms in 1902, the business was named after a nearby train station in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
The name Wawa is from a Native American word for “wild goose,” according to the company website.
Wawa is still based in Delaware County and now operates more than 1,100 stores in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Florida, Delaware, Maryland, Alabama, North Carolina, Georgia, Ohio, and Washington
DC.
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