Hellertown Area

House Speaker Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries visited Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional District Thursday to promote their parties candidates. Democratic incumbent Susan Wild and Republican challenger Ryan Mackenzie are locked in one of the tightest U.S. House races in the country.

The Louisiana Republican, who became House speaker nearly a year ago, will rally with 7th Congressional District candidate Ryan Mackenzie in Northampton County, according to a campaign advisory.

The accident is at least the third this week in the Lehigh Valley.

A document written for Lower Saucon Council emphasizes its members stop personal insults, reject misinformation, avoid political speech and advocate for unity.

The township’s fire services tax is planned to foot the remaining principal and interest on one of the volunteer fire company’s tower trucks, while also paying toward repairs on one of its ladder trucks.

The borough is after $618,464 in state gaming revenue funding to build a footbridge and path connecting the Saucon Rail Trail to Tumminello Park.

The township is back on the hunt once again for another manager after its most recent hire, Sheldon Hudson, of Millsboro, Delaware, stepped down on Monday. That's the second manager hired in two months.

Former Hellertown Police Chief Robert Shupp was formally arraigned in a Northampton County court Thursday on charges of stealing from the borough, inching the case towards a trial.

Township Council on Wednesday got an idea of what 39 garden apartments and parking lots could look like in the open space across from the municipal complex on Old Philadelphia Pike.

At a nine-hour council meeting on Wednesday, Lower Saucon Township officials voted 3-2 to offer the township manager job to Sheldon Hudson, of Millsboro, Delaware, at a salary of $155,000. The previously announced new manager declined the offer.