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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.
Many people who now work from home or in a hybrid model are missing the mental downtime they enjoyed during their morning and evening commutes, pre-pandemic. BAR40 author and Saucon Source columnist Eric Bartosz explains that you can still enjoy that mental space with a little planning.
Responding to a recent op-ed about diversity on Hellertown Borough Council, Mayor David Heintzelman penned a letter to the community, telling them that he and council members “share something I believe is essential–an unwavering love of the town in which we live and the neighbors we volunteer to serve.”