Our school district’s most critical site for protecting all our futures—the elementary school—continues to post equity ratings and academic performances that should turn our stomachs.

Because we’re a community where spiky extremisms take root as readily as those banned bamboos species you see near the bike path. As Mick Jagger puts it in “Sympathy for The Devil,” if you want to know who killed the Kennedys, don’t look too far: “It was you and me.”

Hellertown’s own director extraordinaire, Matt Pfeiffer, brings a world-class, bluesy version of Shakespeare’s sweet comedy “Much Ado About Nothing” to Saucon Valley through Aug. 7 to the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival.

What do you when so many of your fellow Saucon Valley citizens support the Big Lie when it's been meticulously disproven again and again and again and again?

… While there have been a steady number of fentanyl-caused deaths over the last three years in Northampton County, a relatively small number—that we know of—occurred in Saucon/Freemansburg:

“In Hellertown, It’s Not Hard to Find Feathered Friends …”

Uncool is the new cool.

I myself was real excited about Kate Bush for about a week in late 1983, in Ohio. I loved 1978’s “The Kick Inside” because it was the law for brooding pre-English majors in that era, and “Wuthering Heights” was pure literary candy floss.

We need, as a community, to remember Babashak’s school board campaign of 2017 when he ran, unsuccessfully, for Saucon Valley School Board.

There are also too few volunteers in Saucon Valley in general to serve organizations as press-release writers, press contacts or marketing specialists.

The abject petty stupidity and arrogance of the alleged crimes described here are what gall me. It’s so perfectly Lehigh Valley, it actually makes me feel physically ill.

Overall, I felt that Obi-wan satisfyingly brings a lot of new depth to sketchy storylines and famous characters who had been pretty two-dimensional and backgrounded in the films (Owen Lars and Breha Organa become more complete characters, for example). There are several great trailers to see.