The Hellertown Area Library (file photo)
A rift that began over funding nearly three years ago and involved the Hellertown Area Library, the Borough of Hellertown and Lower Saucon Township is on its way to being little more than a footnote to local history.
Township officials announced last week that following the execution of a new agreement with the HAL in December, full library services are once again available to township residents, who had been without a home library for the last two years. The agreement–which took effect Jan. 1–was signed nearly a year after a new council majority was sworn in following a campaign in which they had pledged to restore library and other services by repairing the township’s fractured relationship with the borough, which had devolved to the point that several lawsuits involving both municipalities were pending in the courts.
The township council majority voted late last year to end the lawsuits related to the library and the borough-owned compost center on Springtown Hill Road, which was also closed to residents.
For more information on the Hellertown Area Library and the services available to residents of both Lower Saucon Township and Hellertown borough, visit HellertownLibrary.org or call 610-838-8381.
