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UPDATE: After being closed three days in a row, the Hellertown Pool reopened Tuesday with a modified swimming schedule in place. Season pass holders and others were upset by the daily closures in the midst of a heat wave, with many turning to social media to voice their frustration.
National Farmers Market Week (Aug. 7-13) is an opportunity for vendors and volunteers who work behind the scenes to raise awareness about these community institutions, which is why the Saucon Valley Farmers’ Market will go all out to celebrate this Sunday. Epic Acre Farm is the featured vendor.
Whether you think you have a personal connection to prostate cancer or not, it’s likely that at some point in your life you will. All men are at risk for prostate cancer, and out of every 100 American men about 13 will get prostate cancer during their lifetime, according to CDC statistics.
When it comes to dealing with the weather, we’re all in it together, so in the midst of a summer heat wave it makes sense to turn to friends and neighbors for help cooling off.
Patients of St. Luke’s Laboratory Services-Bethlehem will have a new location to visit beginning Aug. 15, but they won’t have to travel far for their bloodwork and other tests.
Saucon Valley’s own Talitha Diggs will celebrate her recent world championship at home in Hellertown Thursday, with an event at the bandshell in the borough’s Dimmick Park.
A new Advance Auto Parts store will open Thursday in the Shoppes at Hellertown. The business is located in a space that was formerly home to National Auto.
Fountain Hill resident Gwen Hercik enjoys the thrill of reading a good whodunit by James Patterson. But for the past decade, her reading and other favorite pastimes were limited by her frequent migraine headaches. That was before she enrolled in a research study of the drug Aimovig at St. Luke’s Center for Neurology.
Pennsylvanians who call, text or chat by dialing 988 or visiting 988Lifeline.org are now directly connected to the same trained, compassionate crisis response counselors who were accessible through the former 10-digit National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, which has been rebranded as the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
Although the intersection in which they’re located is only a couple blocks from Fountain Hill Elementary School, old school zone signs along Broadway in Fountain Hill borough have to be removed because they are no longer needed, according to state law.