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Wild underage drinking in Saucon …
Rumors have been flying all over town about underage drinking at the last homecoming dance in Saucon. There is, as I understand it, some kind of district investigation underway. You’d be surprised how little school directors are told about these kinds of things initially from the district itself. We do hear from community members.
Saucon Valley High drops in rankings
Who knows? Perhaps it’s all part of some perverse, unconscious plan to make sure I’ll never be re-elected to Saucon Valley School Board, but it’s very freeing when one can learn to speak freely without fear of political repercussions.
I realize, I just don't care about being politically palatable on this blog—and I’m not willing to lie to voters.
My thinking about Charlie Kirk
Saucon Source ran a commentary I wrote on this issue. I’ve thought carefully about it, and even wondered, briefly, if I’d made some sort of big political blunder. But the deeper I scooped down into the issues, and the more I see overreactions and suppression of free speech, the more I feel content with my take on this complex topic.
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Saucon Valley school board failing low-income families
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.
Satan comes to town
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.”
“Much Ado” at DeSales about much more than “nothing”
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.
Fentanyl in Saucon kills, but alcohol kills more
… 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:
Saucon Source: Birdwatching in Saucon Valley
“In Hellertown, It’s Not Hard to Find Feathered Friends …”
A tragic death but a legacy worth remembering
We need, as a community, to remember Babashak’s school board campaign of 2017 when he ran, unsuccessfully, for Saucon Valley School Board.
Saucon Valley orgs need to get serious about public information
There are also too few volunteers in Saucon Valley in general to serve organizations as press-release writers, press contacts or marketing specialists.
The rumor grist mill: Hellertown’s not-so-secret gambling thing?
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.
MPH is a personal blog about the most ornery, wondrous and complicated small town in America. MPH is produced purely to entertain and has zero relationship, obviously, with any political, corporate or governmental entity. Why do this? Because as Hellertown goes, America goes.