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The Hellertown Public Works Department drew high praise Monday for its work treating and clearing borough roads of eight inches of snow during a freak winter storm last week.
So many truck drivers are exiting Interstate 78 at Rt. 412 and mistakenly heading down nearby narrow Hellertown side streets that the borough needs to try and ban them from those roads completely, council decided Monday.
The days of easily and cheaply installing ‘No Trucks Allowed’ signs on locally-owned roads are soon coming to an end, Hellertown Police Chief Robert Shupp told borough council Monday.
A plan to spell out “Hellertown” using barberry bushes in front of the Dimmick Park bandshell was altered Monday night at the suggestion of Mayor David Heintzelman, with whom the idea originated.
The affect of a proposal to build a 17,000 square-foot Hellertown Public Works Department maintenance building on vacant land in the middle of a borough neighborhood has been traumatic, a resident told borough council Monday night.
Borough council Monday unanimously voted to accept a recommendation by a Hellertown-Lower Saucon Chamber of Commerce committee that a real tree be used to decorate the park this year.
A vacancy on the Hellertown Zoning Hearing Board was filled Monday when borough council voted unanimously to appoint resident Andrew Hughes to fill it.
Christmas is only 12 or so weekends away and it was on the minds of Hellertown Borough Council members Monday as they discussed options for a Christmas tree in Dimmick Park.
A number of residents of Magnolia Road, Saucon Street and other primarily residential streets near the former Reinhard School in Hellertown attended a council meeting Monday to share their concerns about a conceptual proposal to construct a 17,000 square foot public works building there.
Roger Jurczak, Vice President of the Saucon Valley Conservancy, came before Hellertown Borough Council to ask whether the circa 1860s pier can be saved from demolition when the Water Street Bridge is replaced.
