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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.
Fountain Hill Borough had a Facebook page that for all intents and purposes appeared to be an official social media arm of the tiny municipality. But it was never an official page, according to borough council, because it wasn’t administered by borough staff under their oversight.
A special Fountain Hill Borough Council meeting held Tuesday to discuss various options for providing police coverage to the borough drew a large crowd and the accusation by the head of the borough’s police officer association that at least some council members are “anti-police.”
Electric and hybrid-electric vehicles are much more common on local roads than they were just a few years ago, and with their popularity has come demand for more EV (electric vehicle) charging stations in the Lehigh Valley.
They’re the talk of the town, and not in a good way. As the summer of 2019 has heated up, so has the population of spotted lanternflies multiplied in the borough of Hellertown, borough manager Cathy Hartranft confirmed at Monday night’s borough council meeting.
