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Amazingly thorough Saucon supe contract story
This Lehigh Valley News story on the superintendent contract dives so deep! It hits hard. And it even has a dateline, like the nationals:
Beautiful new math: When 6 is actually less than 3
It was a very bitter pill for the community to swallow.
A deeply ick four-year extension to the Saucon Valley School District superintendent’s contract passed at last night’s standing-room-only meeting at the Saucon High School Audion.
Check out this sophisticated Hellertown-based blog
The Hellertown-based writer Steve Wiggins (“obscure private intellectual, unfluencer, and recovering academic,” as he sardonically describes himself) writes widely about a variety of topics—religious studies and horror, among others—and his writing is fascinating.
Wild West Wind blows through Saucon Valley
Like anyone else in Hellertown and Lower Saucon, I’ve been this last week feeling the west wind churn through our neighborhoods, scattering bright leaves every which way. Don’t you love all that? I feels so good somehow. I don’t understand why, exactly. It seems to reflect some deep need in the soul.
5 perfect reasons why school board should table any renewal of Saucon superintendent contract
That this was crammed, at the 11th hour, onto new business two weeks before two new school board are sworn in is an utter disgrace. The backdoor “November Surprise” manner of it all gives the appearance of subterfuge and treachery. It should be immediately tabled.
Here are five perfect reasons why:
A disgusting post-election stunt
So I received this, the very morning after Tuesday’s change-mandate election. Nice timing!
Is Hellertown the perfect small town to walk?
Do you ever feel quietly amazed by that sneaking small-town sense that, yes, you can walk to excellent restaurants, to nice several decent parks, to an ice cream shop, to an incredible rail trail, to barbers and hairdressers and bakeries and a great bike shop?
Hunter Gress for Lower Saucon Council
This one’s almost too easy.
I’ve known Hunter Gress (mostly through others) since he was a kid, and to nutgraf it: Hunter is a brilliant and brave young person who will bring a subtle intelligence, a “crazy good work ethic” (as a mutual friend of ours puts it), independence and pragmatism to Saucon Valley’s largest and most troubled municipality.
Meghan Lomangino & Christian Tatu for Saucon school board
I humbly urge Saucon voters to elect Meghan Lomangino and Christian Tatu—along with Cedric Dettmar and Shamim Pakzad—to Saucon Valley school board on Tuesday, Nov. 4.
There are many areas where I can imagine these four people in conflict with one another, and personally, I wouldn’t want it any other way. They need to be themselves. But I foresee productive, well-mannered tension, not bitter, uncivil, energy-sapping battles.
Too much light in the darkness?
I’m not sure when it started, but a few years ago, I noticed little tacky solar lights going up everywhere in Hellertown.
I wasn’t immune from the craze, and neither was the rest of small-town America. I bought a set of string of solar paper lanterns from Ikea, a set of walkway lights from Home Depot or somewhere, and a more expensive and serious (and ultimately, less cheerful) set of string bulbs. I think they’re all more or less broken or discarded now.
A teasing glimpse into the Hellertown darkness
I’m not sure when it started, but a few years ago, I noticed little tacky solar lights going up everywhere in Hellertown.
I wasn’t immune from the craze, and neither was the rest of small-town America. I bought a string set of solar paper lanterns from Ikea, a set of walkway lights from Home Depot or somewhere, and a more expensive and serious (and ultimately, less cheerful) set of string bulbs. I think they’re all more or less broken or discarded now.
My cheap lights phase is over.
Re-elect Cedric Dettmar and Shamim Pakzad
Cedric and Shamim are exactly the kind of intellectually oriented, whip-smart volunteers you want running a high-achieving, aspirational public district like Saucon Valley. They expect great things, they get stuff done, and they’re focused on two things: academic excellence and financial sustainability.
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.