A new face on Lower Saucon Township Council was welcomed at its Jan. 2 reorganization meeting. Ryan Stauffer--who was elected to council in November, replacing Ron Horiszny who had served since the summer of 2005--was sworn in by township staff member and notary public Diane Palik.
A popular Hellertown playground will be improved in 2018, after the borough received grant money for upgrades to it. Council also adopted a 2018 borough budget with a .5 mill tax increase Dec. 4.
Documents included with Lower Saucon Township Council's Nov. 15 meeting agenda have shed light on Giant Food Stores' request for a liquor license transfer that would facilitate the sale of beer and wine at its store at 1880 Leithsville Road.
If a preliminary budget proposal approved by Lower Saucon Township Council Wednesday is adopted before the end of the year, it will be more expensive to both live and work in the township in 2018.
On the agenda at the next Lower Saucon Township Council meeting is an item that may be of interest to anyone who shops at the Giant Food Store in the township, which is the only supermarket in the Saucon Valley School District.
Lower Saucon Township's quiet council race Tuesday yielded a surprising result, when a newcomer to local politics unseated longtime incumbent council member and current council president Ron Horiszny.
The first of what Lower Saucon Township officials hope will be many Little Free Libraries in township parks won unanimous approval from council for installation in Polk Valley Park last Wednesday.
After more than 42 years of service to Lower Saucon Township and its residents, Chief of Police Guy Lesser has announced his retirement effective Friday, Sept. 22.
Lower Saucon Township Council wants improvements made to emergency highway access points and more state police patrols on I-78, and an emergency traffic signal and signage at Se-Wy-Co Volunteer Fire Company on Rt. 378.
Council members said neglectful maintenance is why the Narrows is now just an 8.5 foot-wide road too narrow for school buses and firetrucks to negotiate.
