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UPDATE: Route 412 Has Re-Opened

PennDOT reported earlier that the state route was closed at Yale Avenue in Bethlehem due to a fire.

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The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation reported at 2:13pm that Route 412 just north of the Hellertown exits at Interstate 78 was closed due to "an auto dealership fire."

At 2:35pm, PennDOT issued a statement reporting that Hellertown Road, which is Route 412, had reopened.

The road was temporarily closed at Yale Avenue, which is in the city of Bethlehem, .

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Christine Widgren May 24, 2013 at 02:33 pm
When I try to take an alternate route into Easton, I encounter "Road Closed" barricades…Read More along Industrial Drive and try another route through Glendon along the Lehigh and there are massive barricades and closed roads and bridges there as well. Add to that the High Street debacle where work has not even started yet. But the Rail Trail advocates must be happy....now they can walk anywhere they want between Hellertown and Bethehem and not encounter any moving vehicles.
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To Mr. Puerta, I have been a resident of Saucon Valley for 16 years. In that time, most of that…Read More with you on the school board, my taxes have nearly DOUBLED. Teacher Salaries, have wait for it.... nearly DOUBLED. Our test scores, well I wish I could say they Doubled too, but well..... For you to be running as a fiscal conservative is as amazing a bought of hipocracy as I have ever witnessed in Politics..... Please if I am wrong, correct me. Let me know what the Millage rate was when you took office, and what it is today? or perhaps the per student funding when you took office (to a larger enrollment) and what it is today..... Or perhaps the average teacher salary..... Or even better the annual raises for the union when you were Schoolboard chairman? Don't get me wrong, you have been a duly elected Collectivist ( means the subjugation of the individual (in this case tax payer) to a group (the NEA).... Perhaps a leopard does change his spots..... You will probably be re-elected by populace and your challenge is to be the fiscal conservative you now purport yourself to be....
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6. Just for the record, I have opposed the last three teachers" strikes and I am not in favor…Read More of just throwing money at problems. 7. If the board was serious and the community was serious, they would have adopted my suggestion that all athletics at Saucon be abandoned and the saving, about a million dollars, would be used for educational purposes. When I made that suggestion at one of the superintendent's meeting to develop a million dollars in savings, Bryan Eichfeld rose from the audience to say that he liked my intention but he thought the schools should provide for a well rounded education. There was no sense in pointing out the irony to Bryan that he had favored cutting teachers, purchase of need books and other educational improvements to graduate "well rounded" students who could play football, basket ball and field hockey but couldn't think. Bryan, of course, is now on the board. 8. I agree with Bert that the outsourcing of the buses is a terrible idea for exactly the reasons that Bert says it is.
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I love ya, of course I'm against books....I'm a neanterthal....I opposed one book and that was a…Read More propaganda piece that in every chapter clearly stated that Man-made global was destroying the environment in all areas of the world.... and again you ignore that our Student to teacher ratio is lower than when you were on the board... we didn't replace some retiring teachers to keep things in balance. It is interesting that when I try to find this back and forth on the Patch, you can't find it anymore so I guess I will stop wasting my time on this.
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Dear Mr Katz,, I am sorry I didnt find the patch sooner. Please explain why you didnt disclose the…Read More Teachers union affiliation of those you endorsed?.... Perhaps the public doesnt need to know? Also please take a position and state what you think our teachers who average a Measly 98K a year for working 5.5 hours per day, for a 160 days work a year are entitled too? Its ok to write editorials, but they should disclose the facts and backgrounds..... There are two Fiscal Conservatives running in this election, and an additional two who are self purportedly reformed big spenders.... the rest of the candidates are NEA members or the family of the same... The saddest part of the whole thing is what are we getting for our investment of paying teachers in the top 5% nationally? Certainly not top 5% test scores.... Yes I am a parent of two Saucon Valley students by the way.
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