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After 30 years in business, Joanne Robbins, founder of Saucon Valley Massage in Hellertown, still “has the gift of therapeutic touch,” says her son Westley Morris, who joined his mother in their family’s business three years ago.
Saucon Source celebrated an important milestone on Sunday with an open house that marked their fifth anniversary as an independent online publisher of original local news and information.
One of Hellertown’s landmark Main Street businesses is celebrating a special anniversary in a big way. Saucon Valley Bikes, which owner Steve LaBrake opened in September 1999, is marking its 20th anniversary with specials all month long and a raffle to win the most popular bicycle it sells.
On April 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong had yet to walk on the moon, the hippie counterculture that would soon reach its zenith at Woodstock was in full bloom, and something important happened in Hellertown. That something was the opening of the borough’s new post office at 660 Delaware Avenue.
These rare photos shared by Christine Johnson show Interstate 78 as it appeared while it was under construction in eastern Lower Saucon Township in the late 1980s.
The list of pros and cons one can write about I-78 and the effect its had on the Saucon Valley is long. One thing that can’t be denied, however, is that the highway–which opened nearly 30 years ago–changed life here forever.
A special anniversary celebration was held at Hellertown’s Edward A. Ackerman American Legion Post 397 Saturday. Both the local post and the national organization are commemorating 100 years of service to veterans in 2019.
The Visiting Nurse Association of St. Luke’s is celebrating a remarkable milestone this year—100 years of delivering health care to patients in their homes.
If you’re already a Beethoven Waldheim Club member, you don’t want to miss Key Day and the one-year anniversary of the club’s reopening Saturday, March 2. If you’re not yet a member, you just may want to apply for membership beforehand–or plan to attend as a guest of a member–so you can join in the fun.
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the construction of the post office building at Delaware Avenue and Water Street, and inside visitors will find a display that tells the story of U.S. mail in Hellertown from the earliest days of delivery.
