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On Nov. 18, 1995, the iconic blast furnaces and the basic oxygen furnace at Bethlehem Steel’s South Bethlehem plant produced iron and steel for the last time. This Saturday’s Last Cast 25 event will offer local history buffs the chance to relive the iconic steel plant’s final hours.
The ribbon-cutting ceremony for Hippie Momma Soap Company Thursday was the first to be hosted by the Hellertown-Lower Saucon Chamber of Commerce in more than six months. That made the moment even sweeter for owner Sarah King, who welcomed several dozen guests to the celebratory event outside her home-based business.
Rev. Dr. Howard H. Cox and Mrs. Shirley L. (Peet) Cox celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary at a picnic with their immediate family at their daughter Sara’s home in Bethlehem Sunday.
The coronavirus has put a halt to many things in recent months, but one thing it has a hard time overcoming is love. That was clear Wednesday at New Eastwood Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center in Wilson borough, where a couple celebrated their 59th wedding anniversary together, even as the virus kept them apart.
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.