Citizens for Responsible Development-LST (CRT-LST) will host the second annual Save the Forest Music Festival on Sunday, July 28, 2024 from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Heller-Wagner Grist Mill, 150 W. Walnut Street in Hellertown.
Two helicopters and six fixed-wing aircraft will be used to help control the spread of the invasive species, with the state estimating that 227,820 acres will be treated, including 12 state forests, 18 state parks and one federal property.
The Bethlehem Area School District has purchased two electric buses to help reduce its fleet's carbon emissions and in doing so become the first district in the Lehigh Valley to add EV buses to its transportation lineup.
From seed planting to bingo to earth-friendly photo opportunities, the Upper Saucon Township retail center is offering guests multiple ways to get involved.
Bucks County has filed a lawsuit against oil companies BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil, Philips 66, Shell and API alleging that the county has suffered catastrophic effects of climate change caused by the fossil fuel industry.
Northampton County officials announced the designation for the arboretum in a Feb. 28 news release, which noted that that arboretum has a history dating back nearly 45 years.
Citizens for Responsible Development - Lower Saucon Township announced that it is "profoundly grateful" for the 2023 Sierra Club Huplits Wildlife Grant, which is administered by the Allegheny Group of Sierra Club.
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.
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."
