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The Saucon Valley boys varsity lacrosse team put together an impressive 9-4 win against Liberty Saturday in a home game that was bookended by some of the weekend’s showers.
Est. Read Time: 8 minsSaucon Source invited the seven candidates running for four seats on the Saucon Valley School Board to each share a statement about why they are seeking election to the board and what they hope to accomplish if elected to it.
Est. Read Time: 3 minsJill MacLaren of East Stroudsburg calls the annual St. Luke’s Hospice Bike Ride the “happiest day of my year.” The event is when she celebrates the life of her late husband, Scott, while helping to raise money for St. Luke’s Hospice education and bereavement programs.
Est. Read Time: 4 minsYou never know what you’re gonna get when the Saucon Valley Panthers and neighboring Southern Lehigh square off against each other in competition. On Wednesday, the Spartans and Panthers battled lacrosse style. The Panthers came out swinging, but it ended up as a tale of two halves.
After a successful season with a winning record of 9-3, the Saucon Valley Boys High School Tennis team hosted the Colonial League boys tennis tournament on Friday.
The annual 5-night Dewey Fire Company Carnival in Hellertown is set to return in 2021, a year after COVID-19 forced planners to cancel the 2020 event.
After encountering an alleged burglar in his home, a Hellertown resident is likely thankful to be uninjured, but the same might be said about the man who police say illegally entered the residence in the middle of the night.
Jake Coyle and Kristen Haggerty of Saucon Valley have been recognized by the Celebration Awards Committee for their outstanding personal achievements over the past year. The Celebration Awards are a yearly celebration of the accomplishments of local individuals with disabilities hosted by Arc of Lehigh and Northampton Counties.
The Borough of Fountain Hill will look to hire a new borough manager after outgoing manager, Tony Branco, announced his retirement at the borough’s April 21 council meeting.
The Hellertown-Lower Saucon Chamber of Commerce plans to honor those who’ve gone above and beyond to support the community during the pandemic at its Honors & Hors D’oeuvres Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, May 25 from 5:15 to 7 p.m.
The closure of the National Auto Store in Hellertown will mean yet another vacancy in a local shopping center that already has a high vacancy rate. Other National Auto Stores are also slated to close April 30, a store employee said.
Local advocates for equal access to recreational facilities are no doubt celebrating the news that Hellertown borough has received funding for Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) upgrades in the form of a grant from the Commonwealth Financing Authority.
An internationally-known track star and four-time Olympian who happens to call the Hellertown area home is planning to give back to the athletes of tomorrow by hosting a track and field camp from July 6 to July 9 at Saucon Valley High School.
Planners from PennDOT are seeking public opinion on their plans to build a second, partial bridge to the east of Bethlehem’s Hill to Hill Bridge.
A section of a road that connects Rt. 412 with Bingen Road in Lower Saucon Township will be closed for a streambank stabilization project beginning Monday, April 26.
A failing bridge in downtown Coopersburg can no longer safely support the weight of two vehicles crossing it simultaneously, so PennDOT plans to close one of its two lanes, and that lane closure is likely to impact local residents and businesses for years to come.
If you have been setting aside electronics that are no longer useful are functional for future recycling, you’ll have an opportunity to responsibly dispose of them at an e-waste event this Saturday, April 24 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Hopewell Park in Center Valley.
St. Luke’s University Health Network announced earlier this week that it has reached a critical milestone in the fight against coronavirus by administering more than 250,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine since the vaccine first became available in December.
This summer will not only mark the hundredth anniversary of Saucon Valley Country Club’s formal opening, but also serve as a reminder that one of the region’s premier golf courses remains as important–and exclusive–as ever.
Writers tend to be perfectionists, and that impulse was what ultimately motivated a local author to revisit–and revamp–a work of fiction he wrote more than two decades ago.
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In the Saucon Valley School District, the candidates for school board are striving to distinguish themselves from within a field of seven candidates for four seats.
Springfield Township Police Tuesday announced a drug-related arrest which they said capped a months-long investigation in the township.
It’s no secret that due to high demand and record low supplies of housing inventory, the current real estate market is a tough one for many realtors and their clients to navigate. However, Alison Corradini, a Realtor® with Keller Williams in Allentown, is uncovering lots of opportunity in it.
The Saucon Valley High School softball program hosted the Salisbury Falcons in a softball showdown Monday. The Panthers and Falcons laced up their cleats to hit the field on Saucon’s campus and treated the fans to a very entertaining competition. It was a rollercoaster ride between the Panthers and Falcons.
A Lower Saucon Township man is facing criminal charges after police say he repeatedly fired a gun and harassed neighbors while he was allegedly intoxicated early Sunday.
Do you love to take pictures of historic locations in the Saucon Valley area? If you do, you’ll probably want to enter the Lower Saucon Township Historical Society’s “History Through Photography” contest.
The volunteers who gathered at the historic Lutz-Franklin Schoolhouse for a roadside cleanup on Countryside Lane are members of the Lower Saucon Township Historical Society, which twice a year cleans it up as part of the township’s Adopt-a-Road program.
In 1922, the borough of Hellertown was home to approximately 3,000 people, many of whom worked at the booming Bethlehem Steel Company. The Morning Call’s profile of the town called it “prosperous” and filled with contented families living in “comfortable homes.”
Firefighters raced to the scene of a truck fire at the intersection of Main and Water streets in Hellertown borough a little after 1 p.m. Saturday.
Saucon Valley and Southern Lehigh squared off on the baseball diamond in another spirited competition between the cross-creek rivals. The 2-2 Panthers played host to the 5-1 Spartans on a chilled and cloudy Wednesday afternoon. It wasn’t a great day for baseball, but it was a great baseball game.
The PIAA 2021 spring sports season is off and racing after missing the 2020 due to COVID. The Panther women had a great day last Tuesday as they swept both the Bangor Slaters and the Catasauqua Rough Riders. On the men’s side, Saucon Valley split with a win over the Roughies, but falling to the Slaters. Tuesday was also a record-setting day as senior Matt Chaikowsky set a new Panther school record by running the 1600m run in 4:23!
St. Luke’s University Health Network announced its development of a new COVID-19 Recovery Clinic Thursday. The innovative program is dedicated to treating post-COVID patients with lingering symptoms who are colloquially known as COVID “long haulers.”
There was double the excitement at Hellertown’s Dewey Fire Company Thursday, as ribbons were cut on a newly-renovated bar, Frontline at the Dewey, and by caterer Joe Stout.