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Residents frustrated by the lack of progress on a bridge replacement project on Blue Church Road in Upper Saucon Township received an update from on it from township officials Monday night, although the news probably wasn’t music to anyone’s ears.
Hellertown Borough Council members listened and tried to assuage concerns about a proposed public works building at a roundtable meeting held Saturday on what could ultimately be the location of its construction.
A special Fountain Hill Borough Council meeting held Tuesday to discuss various options for providing police coverage to the borough drew a large crowd and the accusation by the head of the borough’s police officer association that at least some council members are “anti-police.”
Fountain Hill Borough Council will consider options for controlling cost of the borough’s police budget at their next meeting Sept. 3. In this opinion editorial, council president Leo Atkinson explains why.
The state’s EPA has given Fountain Hill a two-and-a-half-year timeframe to meet the obligations of its MS4 stormwater program. Council is considering creating a local authority that would levy a fee on all borough property owners in order to pay for the improvements.
Nobody’s going to be driving westbound on E. Saucon Street between Rentzheimer Drive and Northampton Street anytime soon.
Upper Saucon Township residents packed a special board of supervisors meeting at Southern Lehigh Middle School Wednesday night to tell the board and representatives for Kay Builders that they dislike a proposal to build a large residential and retail complex along Rt. 309 in Center Valley.
A proposed public works building that would be constructed on borough-owned property in a residential neighborhood was the subject of a special council meeting held Tuesday that was attended by several dozen residents.
A mixed use development proposed for approximately 120 acres along Rt. 309 between Center Valley Parkway and E. Hopewell Road in Upper Saucon Township is drawing concerns from local officials and residents; concerns which are expected to be shared at an upcoming board of superviors meeting on Wednesday, April 10 at 6:30 p.m. at Southern Lehigh Middle School.
The future of a Lower Saucon Township cemetery in which local citizens have been buried ever since the Civil War era will be decided at a March 30 meeting.
