Following a successful "wetdown event" held last summer, the Fountain Hill Fire Department, the borough's summer recreation program and the Fountain Hill Community Coalition are again partnering to host a free event that will allow kids to run through the cool spray created by a fire hose pointed skyward over a field at the borough park/playground complex on Stanley Avenue.
Citing fiscal, neighborhood, environmental and other concerns, a group of Hellertown residents told Borough Council Monday they don't want a new basketball court to be built near their homes.
A community-based nonprofit organization in Fountain Hill is planning to sponsor a free movie in the borough's Stanley Avenue Park later this summer.
There's a small park in the center of Hellertown that will soon have a more park-like atmosphere.
It has been more than a year since Joe Delfoe died at the age of 89, but the longtime Hellertown resident's legacy of civic-mindedness lives on in the local landmarks he had a hand in developing. One of them is a gazebo that was recently built in Borough Authority Park.
No one appeared to be injured after several large tree branches fell onto a path in Hellertown's Water Street Park during a period of heavy rain Sunday morning.
Although summer may seem far off, it's really just a few months away, which is why organizers of events like Lower Saucon Township's annual Movies in the Park series are beginning to seek public input about them.
Some criminally enterprising individuals have apparently decided to brighten their own holidays by stealing credit cards from vehicles in southeastern Pennsylvania parks.
If you are a visitor to Lower Saucon Township's Polk Valley Park police are urging you to remove any valuables from inside your vehicle when parking your car there, as a result of their investigation into recent thefts from vehicles that have occurred in the park.
The Aug. 24 Fountain Hill Borough Council meeting was one of the last council meetings of the summer, and it was a summer pasttime that was a major subject of discussion at it.
