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It’s “a thrill to live on the Hill,” as the saying goes, but if families are unable to enjoy a day in the park due to trash, noise and property crime, there’s certainly less to brag about.
An outdoor event featuring local food trucks and sponsored by the Hellertown-Lower Saucon Chamber of Commerce drew hundreds of residents to the borough’s Dimmick Park Saturday, on what turned out to be a gorgeous early June afternoon.
A 39-year-old Hellertown man is facing charges after allegedly threatening to break into a borough home while high on methamphetamine.
The Borough of Hellertown will be making a community-wide, curbside yard waste collection during the week of June 20, 2022.
For many years, anyone who plans to serve alcohol at an event in a Hellertown park has been required to obtain a waiver, because alcohol is prohibited in the borough’s parks. Council is now poised to eliminate what amounts to red tape for both borough staff and event planners by abolishing the waiver requirement.
After a development phase that’s lasted nearly two years, a new Starbucks on Main Street in Hellertown is nearly complete and anxious to receive its certificate of occupancy (CO).
It’s no secret that in many job sectors there are more positions than takers right now, but in terms of the ability to have fun and work close to home (potentially saving money on gas), officials say summer employment with the Borough of Hellertown is hard to beat.
A meeting about the future of the Fountain Hill swimming pool drew residents to the Doctors Pavilion at St. Luke’s Hospital Monday, where borough council members heard opinions expressed about the 63-year-old recreational facility which is in need of repair.
The clock tower in Hellertown’s Detwiller Plaza has become a beloved borough symbol that appears on everything from Christmas cards to the patches worn by Hellertown police officers. But do you know anything about how it came to be there?
Anyone who’s driven down Northampton Street, Magnolia Road, Rentzheimer Drive or Saucon Street in Hellertown recently has probably noticed the building that is taking shape on the site of the former Reinhard School, which for years has been a vacant lot.