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Monday night’s Fountain Hill Borough council meeting began with the swearing-in of two new council members. Will Rufe and Jamie Johnson were elected to council back in November, and began serving their respective two- and four-year terms this week.
The newest member of Hellertown Borough Council may be an unfamiliar face around Borough Hall, but his last name is probably familiar to anyone who’s followed borough politics for decades.
One could say that Christmas came early for the volunteers and supporters of Dewey Fire Co. No. 1 Monday, when Hellertown Borough Council voted 5-2 to approve the purchase of a new specialized ladder truck at a cost of approximately $1.07 million.
A new fire truck is required in order to help maintain public safety, Dewey Fire Company officials maintained Monday, but several Hellertown Borough Council members were skeptical of their request to purchase one that comes with a seven-figure price tag.
Irregularities in totals caused by Northampton County’s new electronic voting machines delayed the release of unofficial tallies from Tuesday’s election, as officials were forced to count paper ballots late into the evening. By early Wednesday morning, however, the unofficial results from all of the local and county-wide races were known.
With Election Day now just days away, if you live in the borough of Hellertown you may want to know more about the five candidates who are running for borough council.
The rain that forced the cancellation of Sunday’s Saucon Valley Spirit Parade in Hellertown also left postmaster Joe DiRusso with an unusual problem on his hands: 500 pounds of donated Halloween candy and no one to eat it.
When Fountain Hill residents head to the polls Nov. 5 to select the candidates they believe will best represent them on borough council, one issue in particular may feature prominently in their decisions: the future of the small community’s police force.
Hellertown Borough Council met Monday and among other things voted to endorse a new ‘Census Counts Committee’ which is being led by Moravian College’s Vice President of Planning & Research Carole Reese.
Over the protests of council members who argued that either the borough can’t afford to pay a full-time zoning official’s salary or that the candidate’s qualifications were “irregular,” Fountain Hill Borough Council voted 4-3 Monday to hire Thomas Wargo as its new zoning officer.
