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Recent Panther high school sports victories were a cause for celebration in Hellertown Monday. A number of outstanding winter season student-athletes from Saucon Valley High School received special recognition from Hellertown Mayor David Heintzelman and borough council members at the start of council’s Monday night meeting.
Hellertown Borough Council made a decision Tuesday that is likely to affect a number of local organizations that hold events annually or occasionally in the borough’s Dimmick Park.
Real or artificial? Hellertown Borough Council answered that question Tuesday when it voted unanimously to approve the purchase of a 14-foot tall artificial Christmas tree, which will be used for the annual Light Up Night tree-lighting celebration in Dimmick Park in November.
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.
