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.

… 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.

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.

You’d think it deserved more attention since we’re literally the backyard of one of the largest casinos in Pennsylvania, and to say Hellertown has an historic rep as a gambler’s den is an understatement of the first order.