The results of a recent Survey Monkey online poll that asked residents and business owners to vote for their choice of holiday decoration for light poles along Main Street in Hellertown have been tabulated, and the clear winner was a 60-inch green wreath with a large red bow, three candles in the center and LED lights all around it.
Hellertown Borough Council heard several recommendations for pedestrian safety improvements along the Main Street corridor Monday night, including one to install electronic countdown clocks at the four intersections with traffic lights in the borough: at High Street, Water Street, Penn Street and Walnut Street.
The borough of Hellertown and borough police are making a concerted effort to help improve pedestrian safety along the Main Street corridor, and the results are already evident, council was told Monday.
Although Christmas seems a long way off, the start of the holiday season is now less than six months away, which is one of the reasons why Hellertown Borough Council members Monday discussed the possible purchase of new electrified decorations for the 60 or so light poles that line Main Street (Rt. 412) for almost a mile in the borough.
Hellertown borough is one step closer to having a new mayor for the first time in two decades, after Hellertown businessman and civic leader David Heintzelman won the Democratic mayoral primary election Tuesday.
After discussing concerns about emergency vehicle access and whether or not all the neighbors on the street would be willing to give up access to their properties for a period of time, Hellertown Borough Council unanimously approved a resident's request to hold a block party in the 1100 block of New Jersey Avenue in mid-June.
Following a concern shared by a local business owner at a recent meeting, Hellertown Borough Council Monday night voted unanimously to advertise a draft ordinance that would ban through truck traffic on Durham Street between Main and Laubach streets.
Pedestrian safety along the Main Street corridor in Hellertown has become a topic of utmost concern for many stakeholders in the borough, from residents to business owners to elected officials. That point was made abundantly clear at a special joint meeting of borough council and the planning commission Tuesday night at Borough Hall.
Following a preliminary hearing held Tuesday a former Hellertown Borough Councilman accused of stealing nearly $40,000 from Dewey Fire Company by falsifying timesheet records for himself while he was employed as the head of Dewey EMS is likely headed to trial in Northampton County Court.
A Hellertown tradition--the children's Easter Egg Hunt in Dimmick Park--will continue this year thanks to volunteers from the Hellertown Historical Society.
