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When Ric Baxter, MD, pedals away from St. Luke’s University Hospital Network’s (SLUHN) Hospice House in Lower Saucon Township Sept. 2, beginning his trans-Pennsylvania bike trip, he’ll be taking an urgent message to the people he meets along the way: Don’t wait.
Pennsylvania State Police are asking for the public’s help with identifying and locating a woman wanted for allegedly shoplifting clothing and shoes from the Walmart store in East Greenville on Aug. 3.
The Hellertown Area Library accomplished a first Tuesday, when it unveiled its new book bike named Wheelie at a ribbon-cutting ceremony hosted with the Hellertown-Lower Saucon Chamber of Commerce.
An Upper Saucon Township man is charged with reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct after authorities say he allegedly fired a shotgun in his yard Tuesday, striking a neighbor’s garage.
A truck driver pulling a Walmart trailer got more than he bargained for Tuesday afternoon, as he attempted to make a right turn from Ringhoffer Road onto Easton Road in Lower Saucon Township, striking the bridge that spans a branch of the Saucon Creek at that intersection.
The first confirmation of West Nile virus in Northampton County this year came Tuesday, with a report from the state’s West Nile Virus Control Program indicating that a mosquito tested in the City of Easton tested positive for it.
The youth of today may be frequently portrayed as unambitious and gaming-obsessed, but there’s much more to the story of who they are and who they’ll become, Steel Club owner David Spirk told a group of Saucon Valley teachers in a presentation Friday.
Hellertown Police announced Monday that they have arrested two men in connection with a series of vehicle break-ins that occurred in the borough earlier this summer, which in one case resulted in the theft of a handgun.
Norton is a sweet boy who is well-behaved, listens fairly well, has nice manners and deserves a chance to find his fur-ever home. Meet him at the Center for Animal Health and Welfare.
If you’re planning to drive the Pennsylvania Turnpike’s Northeast Extension the weekend of Sept. 6-9, you should be aware that the section of the highway between the Lehigh Valley (Allentown) and Mahoning Valley (Lehighton) exits will be closed in both directions for a bridge replacement project.
Driving down Main Street in Hellertown last week you may have noticed new signs on the building that formerly housed the restaurants Bella’s Ristorante and Cafe Erica. The signs represent a change in ownership but not a whole lot else, according to new owner Mike Zavaleta.
It took just several small incisions by St. Luke’s University Health Network plastic surgeon Juan Carlos Martinez, MD, to relieve pressure on the nerves under Amber Walck’s scalp, and suddenly her two-year agony from migraines was history.
It’s been a week filled with community engagement for the Hellertown and Lower Saucon police departments. On the heels of a successful National Night Out celebration in the borough’s Dimmick Park Tuesday night, officers from the adjacent departments participated in a community Bike Ride With the Police on the Saucon Rail Trail Thursday evening.
Two teenagers from Lower Saucon Township are about to begin an exciting journey to North Carolina, where they have been chosen to compete with the Northeast Team in the elite USA Baseball NTIS 15U Cup later this month.
Irvin L. Good Jr., 77, of Hanover Township died Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019 at St. Luke’s Hospital, Fountain Hill. Arrangements are by the Heintzelman Funeral Home Inc., Hellertown.
A Bangor woman is charged with felony retail theft after police say she allegedly stole a box of Claritin allergy medication from the Giant food store in Lower Saucon Township Aug. 2.
Pennsylvania State Police are asking for the public’s help with solving a chilling mystery that’s about as cold as cases come. In January 1977 the body of a young man who’s never been identified was found frozen in a cave below The Pinnacle in Albany Township, Berks County.
Visitors to National Night Out in Hellertown’s Dimmick Park Tuesday night enjoyed a fun, family-friendly event hosted by the borough and Lower Saucon Township police departments.
A Hellertown junior council member has an ambitious vision for the relatively barren I-78 interchange at the borough’s northern entrance, and it involves planting 100 trees…but only if he is able to raise the funds needed to purchase them.
The wedding cake fountain at the center of Hellertown’s leafy Borough Authority Park has become an increasingly popular place for couples to say “I do,” which is why Hellertown Borough Council voted Monday to adopt rules for its use by wedding parties.
A man who allegedly terrorized a Lehigh County innkeeper before throwing a plastic food container at him is wanted by Pennsylvania State Police. Police say the suspect attempted to hit a clerk and then threw a Tupperware container at him at the Scottish Inn & Suites July 25.
A man charged with DUI in Lower Saucon Township was allegedly driving on a license that is suspended because of a prior DUI, township police said in a post on their Crimewatch site Tuesday.
The Saucon Valley Spirit Parade Committee has announced that this year’s spirit parade will be held in Hellertown on Sunday, Oct. 20 at 2 p.m. As always, donations and sponsors are needed to ensure that the beloved free community event goes off without a hitch.
The detour now in place around the $3.8 million Water Street Bridge replacement project in Hellertown means more traffic than normal is accessing Main Street via Walnut Street.
With the start of the 2019 PIAA Sports season only two weeks away, Lady Panther soccer players, past and present, took part in the 13th annual alumni soccer game over the weekend. About thirty graduates returned home to Saucon Valley in order to reconnect and compete on a sultry Saturday afternoon.
Motorists in Lower Saucon Township should expect to encounter delays this week and into September for a seven-week PennDOT paving project on Black River Road between Rt. 378 and Bingen Road.
Cassie was rescued from a less than ideal living situation with 124 other cats. Several of them were undersocialized and very scared. Cassie is working on being more confident along with several of her siblings at The Center for Animal Health and Welfare.
Saucon Valley High School graduate Thomas “Tommy” Traupman, Class of 2018, will compete along with a fellow NCC culinary student at the Ningbo International Young Chefs Challenge in Ningbo, China, Oct. 24-26, 2019.
Cancer researchers at St. Luke’s University Health Network were impressed by the results: After injecting a patient’s cancerous tumors with an experimental medicine derived from a fuchsia-colored liquid from India called Rose Bengal, the tumors shriveled up and flaked off.
Bruce Leon Merkel, 71, of Palmer Township, died Friday, Aug. 2, 2019 at St. Luke’s Hospital, Anderson Campus. Arrangements are by the Heintzelman Funeral Home Inc., Hellertown.
A former Quakertown-area drug dealer who is serving a state prison sentence for running a drug network authorities once said left the borough and much of Upper Bucks County “awash with heroin” has received additional time in state prison for trying to sell drugs behind bars.
To some people it’s known as the “metal bridge.” To others it’s the “High Street Bridge.” Technically speaking its name is the Seidersville Road Bridge, but regardless of what you call it, the fact remains that it’s not seen any traffic move across it in nearly eight years.
A popular chain that sells bath and beauty products will soon be a tenant in the Promenade Shops at Saucon Valley, the Upper Saucon Township lifestyle center announced Thursday.
