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Josh Popichak is a journalist and publisher who is committed to providing an open platform for objective online local news. Originally from Bethlehem, Pa., he has covered news in the Saucon Valley area of eastern Pennsylvania since 2005. In addition to publishing news on SauconSource.com, which he launched in 2014, he uses Facebook, Instagram and other social media platforms to help inform an ever-growing number of reader-followers. He also manages social media platforms and consults with other local businesses as part of his media company, Saucon Source LLC. He is a graduate of Bates College, where he majored in history. Email him at josh@sauconsource.com.
Federal, state and local law enforcement officials are warning of COVID-19 scams being perpetrated by individuals who would like to exploit the anxiety being felt by millions of Americans for personal gain.
Doris E. Holley, 87, of Lower Saucon Township, died Wednesday, April 1, 2020 at the Gardens of Memory Care at Easton. Arrangements are by the Heintzelman Funeral Home Inc., Hellertown.
The Pennsylvania Department of Health Thursday provided a COVID-19 update indicating there has been another large increase in the number of confirmed cases of the virus.
The Pennsylvania State Police announced Wednesday that Gov. Tom Wolf has granted an extension to license to carry firearms permits. Permits that expired on March 19, 2020 or later have been extended to May 30, 2020.
Thomas Traupman studies culinary arts at Northampton Community College (NCC) in Bethlehem Township. On Thursday the school announced in a news release that he recently captured a bronze medal at the Mid-Atlantic Junior Chaine Competition in Philadelphia.
On Wednesday, Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf said the state’s wine and spirits shops will remain closed along with other non-essential businesses for the duration of the COVID-19 shutdown. In a compromise move, he announced that wine and liquor sales by the state would resume online. That’s only if you can reach the website, however.
A Wawa convenience store in Fountain Hill, Lehigh County, is temporarily closed for professional cleaning and disinfecting after an employee who recently worked in the store tested positive for COVID-19.
Crimewatch has developed an Online Reporting System for the Lower Saucon Township Police Department, which is available for residents to use free of charge for non-emergency police reports.
After reporting the lowest daily percentage increase in confirmed coronavirus cases since tracking began nearly a month ago, the Pennsylvania Department of Health Wednesday issued a COVID-19 update that reversed what some were hoping was a downward trend.
The longer Washington dithers, and supermarket owners ignore the pleas of their workers for protection, the more employees will continue to become sick. The time to allow all grocery store, convenience store and other frontline food supply chain employees access to vital PPE is now.
