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Lower Saucon Township Council is poised to consider a resolution Wednesday in support of a May 8 letter by state Sen. Lisa Boscola (D-18) to Gov. Tom Wolf in which she requested that Northampton and Lehigh counties be moved to the yellow phase “immediately.”
A petition signed by about 45 residents of a Hellertown borough neighborhood where construction of a new public works building is proposed was presented to borough council at its meeting Monday night.
The seemingly unending saga involving controversy about when Trick-or-Treat should be held in Saucon Valley began a new chapter Tuesday, when Hellertown Borough Council voted 7-0 to allow residents to determine this year’s date and time via a poll.
Amid resident concerns about public safety, Hellertown Borough Council Monday adopted a 2019 budget that includes a .75 mill tax increase for property owners, which left few happy faces in council chambers.
A longtime Lower Saucon Township councilman’s resignation became official at council’s meeting Wednesday. Glenn Kern, 62, had served on township council since 2001–and was at one time council president–but poor health in recent years has affected his meeting attendance.
Citing potential safety issues, Hellertown Borough Council Monday night approved spending approximately $1,200 to purchase two exterior surveillance cameras for the police department, which currently has none.
It’s official. There is now a date for this year’s Trick-or-Treat in Hellertown borough.
With a snowstorm that caused hundreds of power outages in Hellertown borough still fresh in people’s minds, and another winter storm with the potential to cause more outages due to strike Wednesday, the subject of emergency management was extensively discussed by borough council at their meeting Monday night.
A Hellertown business owner told borough council Monday he’s concerned about how the closure of the Water Street Bridge in the summer of 2019 could affect traffic–particularly because the old Seidersville Road Bridge across Saucon Creek remains closed.
A significant appointment that will affect the public safety of nearly 10,000 Lower Saucon Township residents for years to come was made by township council Wednesday.
