Although the 2023 Hellertown borough budget holds the line on property taxes, borough property owners can expect to pay more in sanitation and recycling fees next year.
If you’ve accumulated a drawer full of electronic devices you no longer need and you live in Lower Saucon Township, an opportunity to recycle them is available to you this weekend.
If you have been setting aside electronics that are no longer useful are functional for future recycling, you’ll have an opportunity to responsibly dispose of them at an e-waste event this Saturday, April 24 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Hopewell Park in Center Valley.
Some local students were kept at school because their bus couldn’t reach their regular stops, and trash collection in one borough was postponed due to what officials in a phone message called “larger than expected snowfall” from Monday’s predicted winter storm.
Fountain Hill Borough Council spent a large portion of their Oct. 5 meeting going over their options for a new trash and recycling contract. Council ultimately decided on a bid which will reduce trash pickup from twice a week to only once a week.
Save money and help protect local streams by building your own rain barrel in which to collect water at a collaborative community workshop May 5 in Lower Saucon Township. The workshop is being sponsored by the Saucon Creek Watershed Association and Lower Saucon Township’s Environmental Advisory Council.
Property owners in Hellertown will be paying more in taxes in 2018 if a preliminary budget approved for advertisement by a 7-0 borough council vote Monday night is ultimately adopted.
Lower Saucon Township Police are investigating a theft of aluminum cans.
Parade chairman David Heintzelman recently released a letter appealing for donations for the beloved parade, which is known to draw hundreds if not thousands of onlookers to the borough each October.
Are you looking to get rid of e-clutter, i.e. old electronics that you no longer use? Most items can no longer be disposed of in the garbage, which is why electronics recycling events have become the norm in recent years.
