Borough Agrees to Help Developer of Champion Site
Hellertown Borough Council last week agreed to assist the developer who's proposing to redevelop the former Champion spark plug factory by applying for special funding available from the state.
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Recycling Rates to Rise for Hellertown Borough Residents
Hellertown Borough Council adopted a final 2024 budget earlier this week that doesn't include a property tax increase, but will result in higher trash and recycling costs for residential rate-payers.
LST Council to Consider Preliminary Approval of Landfill Expansion Plan
Although the year is winding down and Lower Saucon Township Council's last scheduled meeting of 2023 is Wednesday, Dec. 5, the draft agenda for the meeting indicates that council still has much business to consider, including the potential preliminary approval of Bethlehem Landfill's proposed Phase V Land Development & Lot Consolidation expansion plan Wednesday.
LST Council President Proposes 54% Property Tax Reduction
Although its final adoption was listed as an agenda item and a vote on it was expected, the 2024 Lower Saucon Township budget didn't go to a vote at council's Nov. 15 meeting. Council did, however, consider a proposal that wasn't on the agenda to lower property taxes by more than 50 percent.
LST Council Motion Was to Authorize Use of Eminent Domain Against Hellertown Borough
A motion made at Wednesday’s Lower Saucon Township Council meeting to instruct solicitor Linc Treadwell to prepare a resolution authorizing use of eminent domain to acquire a nearly 37-acre parcel was largely overshadowed by business conducted later at the meeting, perhaps because the property in question was identified only by an obscure Parcel ID number: R7-12-3-0719E.
SV Democrats Sweep Township Council, Borough Council, School Board Races: Unofficial Results
The unofficial results from Tuesday's election are in, and they include winners and losers in a number of important local races, including Hellertown Borough Council, Lower Saucon Township Council and Saucon Valley School Board. Lower Saucon Township voters also cast ballots in a referendum on instituting term limits for council members.
Letter: ‘Mega Outsider’ in Lower Saucon Council Race is Landfill Owner
Jayne Shinko of Hellertown says state Rep. Milou Mackenzie's letter in which she questioned "outsider" influence in the Lower Saucon Township Council race failed to identify the "mega outsider" in the race. Shinko says that entity is "Waste Connections, a huge Texas corporation which has papered both Lower Saucon and Hellertown with political signs and filled our mailboxes with inaccurate political broadsides, all to advance its own self-interest and the growth of the Bethlehem Landfill rather than the interest of our community."
Letter: Blair, Inglis & Yerger Are Best Choices for L. Saucon Council
Writing as a resident, Milou Mackenzie of Lower Saucon Township says she believes "outsiders" who "seem interested only in issues that stand to benefit neighboring Hellertown"--including state Rep. Robert Freeman (D-136)--are trying to influence what happens in this year's township council race. Mackenzie is a Republican state representative who represents parts of Lower Saucon Township, as does Freeman.
Election 2023: Where Do Lower Saucon Council Candidates Stand on the Issues?
Saucon Source recently asked the six candidates running for three seats on Lower Saucon Township Council to answer the same five questions, to help our readers be better informed about this important local race.
In Community Letter, Hellertown Council Urges ‘New Leadership’ in L. Saucon
As it promised to do last week, Hellertown Borough Council released a letter to the community Monday in which its decision to reject an offer from Lower Saucon Township officials was explained.
Recycling Rates to Rise for Hellertown Borough Residents
Hellertown Borough Council adopted a final 2024 budget earlier this week that doesn't include a property tax increase, but will result in higher trash and recycling costs for residential rate-payers.
LST Council to Consider Preliminary Approval of Landfill Expansion Plan
Although the year is winding down and Lower Saucon Township Council's last scheduled meeting of 2023 is Wednesday, Dec. 5, the draft agenda for the meeting indicates that council still has much business to consider, including the potential preliminary approval of Bethlehem Landfill's proposed Phase V Land Development & Lot Consolidation expansion plan Wednesday.
LST Council President Proposes 54% Property Tax Reduction
Although its final adoption was listed as an agenda item and a vote on it was expected, the 2024 Lower Saucon Township budget didn't go to a vote at council's Nov. 15 meeting. Council did, however, consider a proposal that wasn't on the agenda to lower property taxes by more than 50 percent.
LST Council Motion Was to Authorize Use of Eminent Domain Against Hellertown Borough
A motion made at Wednesday’s Lower Saucon Township Council meeting to instruct solicitor Linc Treadwell to prepare a resolution authorizing use of eminent domain to acquire a nearly 37-acre parcel was largely overshadowed by business conducted later at the meeting, perhaps because the property in question was identified only by an obscure Parcel ID number: R7-12-3-0719E.
SV Democrats Sweep Township Council, Borough Council, School Board Races: Unofficial Results
The unofficial results from Tuesday's election are in, and they include winners and losers in a number of important local races, including Hellertown Borough Council, Lower Saucon Township Council and Saucon Valley School Board. Lower Saucon Township voters also cast ballots in a referendum on instituting term limits for council members.
Letter: ‘Mega Outsider’ in Lower Saucon Council Race is Landfill Owner
Jayne Shinko of Hellertown says state Rep. Milou Mackenzie's letter in which she questioned "outsider" influence in the Lower Saucon Township Council race failed to identify the "mega outsider" in the race. Shinko says that entity is "Waste Connections, a huge Texas corporation which has papered both Lower Saucon and Hellertown with political signs and filled our mailboxes with inaccurate political broadsides, all to advance its own self-interest and the growth of the Bethlehem Landfill rather than the interest of our community."
Letter: Blair, Inglis & Yerger Are Best Choices for L. Saucon Council
Writing as a resident, Milou Mackenzie of Lower Saucon Township says she believes "outsiders" who "seem interested only in issues that stand to benefit neighboring Hellertown"--including state Rep. Robert Freeman (D-136)--are trying to influence what happens in this year's township council race. Mackenzie is a Republican state representative who represents parts of Lower Saucon Township, as does Freeman.
Election 2023: Where Do Lower Saucon Council Candidates Stand on the Issues?
Saucon Source recently asked the six candidates running for three seats on Lower Saucon Township Council to answer the same five questions, to help our readers be better informed about this important local race.
In Community Letter, Hellertown Council Urges ‘New Leadership’ in L. Saucon
As it promised to do last week, Hellertown Borough Council released a letter to the community Monday in which its decision to reject an offer from Lower Saucon Township officials was explained.