Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 7, when a number of important local races will be decided. Among the most-watched races are those for Lower Saucon Township Council, Saucon Valley School Board and Hellertown Borough Council.Â
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."
The unofficial results from Tuesday's primary election are in, with a number of races apparently having been won or lost by relatively small numbers of votes, in part due to low voter participation.
If you live in Hellertown Borough and are registered to vote as a Republican or Democrat, you have the opportunity to vote for candidates running for borough council in the upcoming municipal primary election. To help our readers be informed voters, Saucon Source recently reached out to all five candidates running for seats on Hellertown Borough Council to request information about why they're running, what challenges they believe the borough faces and more.
Three Democrats, one of whom is an incumbent, announced that they are running for Lower Saucon Township Council Thursday. Priscilla deLeon, Victoria Opthof-Cordaro and Laura Ray all said that if elected they will fight to restore library services for residents and to preserve open space in the township.
Democrat and current state attorney general Josh Shapiro vastly outspent his Republican opponent, Doug Mastriano, in the gubernatorial race. Shapiro also consistently led in the polls prior to Tuesday's election.
In a letter to the editor, Hellertown resident Terri Fadem writes that a vote to re-elect U.S. Rep. Susan Wild (D-7) this November is a vote in favor of protecting reproductive rights.
Pennsylvania’s 2022 primary election is being held Tuesday, May 17. Here's what you need to know about polling places, mail ballots and more.
The proposed Pennsylvania State Senate redistricting would likely keep the partisan composition of the chamber largely unchanged, while improving upon traditional fairness metrics.
Unofficial results from Tuesday's general election indicate that Democrat Amy Zanelli has won the district magistrate's seat for West Bethlehem and Fountain Hill in Lehigh County. Zanelli ran against Republican Van Scott for the seat, which was vacant.
