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There appear to be two schools of thought on how the death of someone who was unvaccinated and died from COVID-19 should be treated on social media. Journalists may find themselves in a no-win situation as they try to reconcile them.
Although it is primarily a bedroom community today, there was a time when Hellertown was a bustling industrial center. Probably the biggest and best-known of its former industrial outfits was the Thomas Iron Company, which once occupied a site along the Saucon Creek, however other businesses also located operated factories in the borough.
The popular perception that in the 1800s American justice was meted out with less compassion than it is today seems to jibe with the facts of a case reported by The Allentown Democrat on June 27, 1883.
Regardless of where they live, most people today take fire protection services for granted, but they haven’t always existed. In Hellertown, for example, there was no one routinely battling the flames until Dewey Fire Company No. 1 was formed in 1898.
Give some thought to activities you enjoyed in the past but have, over time, stopped doing. If you find yourself wanting to live a more active lifestyle but less than enthused about traditional workout options, try making a list of your favorite physical activities from when you were a kid on summer vacation.
Even with Biles’ removal of herself from competition, the team was still able to claim a medal, and a new American gymnast was able to win gold in the individual competition, which likely wouldn’t have been possible if Biles had decided to compete.
The Saucon Valley Panther has been the school district’s beloved mascot for generations, but did you know that real panthers once prowled the Hellertown area?
We recently asked readers to tell us who has the best Italian food (other than pizza) in the Saucon Valley and Southern Lehigh school districts by voting in our restaurant survey. The very best, according to readers, is at …
In an era when women and girls were expected to follow strict social norms, it may have surprised newspaper readers to learn the story of 15-year-old Fannie Riegel.
In our oldest “Olden Days” to date–by far–we examine an editorial published by an early Pocono newspaper in June 1840. Remarkably, the story is partly about an event that had occurred 27 years earlier in Hellertown, that being a celebration of Gen. William Henry Harrison’s defeat of British forces at the Battle of the Thames during the War of 1812.
If you regularly eat out, you probably regularly eat at an Italian restaurant or two. Italian is one of the most popular cuisines in America, and thankfully there’s no shortage of dining options that cater to Italian tastes in the Saucon Valley and Southern Lehigh area.
