Northampton County

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• ET: Connie Sutton Falk Out

  
  Lehigh Valley Ramblings — Authority: 138
  Sarah Cassi at The Express Times has reported that controversial Human Services Director Connie Sutton-Falk , is leaving Northampton County at the end of the year. Vilified by County employees like most Human Services Directors, she was clearly the most unpopular of County Executive John Stoffas appointments. Her ...
  1 week ago

• LV Residents Can Download Free Prescription Discount Cards

  
  Lehigh Valley Ramblings — Authority: 138
  Lehigh County’s discount prescription drug card is now available online and can be printed directly from the county web page . Northampton County residents can download a free card here . These free cards are available to all residents, regardless of age, income or existing health coverage. You can save on ...
  1 week ago

• Northampton County Council Passes No Tax Hike Budget

  
  Lehigh Valley Ramblings — Authority: 138
  When the Northampton County taxman cometh in January, youll be surprised to see that your bill is no larger than it was last year. Despite all the dire warnings of an impending 9.3% tax increase in recent weeks, Council and the Stoffa administration came up with an amended budget that gives non-union workers a 2 1/4% ...
  2 weeks ago

• Some Light Reading: DA Morganellis Complaint Against Angle

  
  Lehigh Valley Ramblings — Authority: 138
  Below you will find the Complaint DA John Morganelli has filed, seeking Ron Angles ouster from Northampton County Counil. Morganelli Complaint
  2 weeks ago

• DA Morganelli: We Dont Need No Steenkin Angle

  
  Lehigh Valley Ramblings — Authority: 138
  Last week, Northampton County Council and Bangor School Board member Ron Angle fired off a letter to the LV delegation to the state legislature. He asked them to review our antiquated School Code, adopted before Home Rule governments like Northampton or Lehigh County even existed. The law is obviously unclear. In the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gracedale Has Defenders

  
  Lehigh Valley Ramblings — Authority: 138
  Northampton County Council member Mike Dowd last night proposed the creation of a committee to study how Gracedale stacks up against other county nursing homes, as well as privately owned facilities. "We want to be sure that the residents are taken care of in the best possible way, we want to be sure that were doing ...
  3 weeks ago

• Northampton County Council: Haggis For Everyone!

  
  Lehigh Valley Ramblings — Authority: 138
  Tiny Nazareth is home to six different Italian restaurants. We also have two Chinese restaurants, a Japanese sushi bar that replaces a taco house, a bakery that specializes in Moravian sugarcake and a Brazilian steakhouse. On the outskirts, we even have an Indian grocery. But one thing you wont see, here or anywhere ...
  3 weeks ago

• LV Iron Pigs Strike Out With Northampton County Council

  
  Lehigh Valley Ramblings — Authority: 138
  Last night, Northampton County considered a $10,000 grant request to the LV Iron Pigs for next years AAA Minor League Baseball All Star Game. The money would come from hotel taxes, and Lehigh County has already committed $25,000 for this event. Council member Lamont McClure initially supported this request, noting our ...
  3 weeks ago

• John Stoffa, Birdhouse Man

  
  Lehigh Valley Ramblings — Authority: 138
  When I attended college, several centuries ago, the last thing on anyones mind was the future. It was a different time, when the focus was on developing a well-rounded education instead of manufacturing prospects for the corporate world. Now that Im an old fart, some local journalism professors invite me to speak to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Northampton County Child Placement Increasing

  
  Lehigh Valley Ramblings — Authority: 138
  Last year, Northampton County budgeted for the placement of 220-225 children. But according to CYF Director Kevin Dolan , 239 children were under the countys care by November, when budget hearings started. According to Dolan, the bad economy and drugs are the main reason. In some cases, both parents are imprisoned ...
  3 weeks ago

• Prison Advisory Board: We Dont Need No Steenkin Flipcams

  
  Lehigh Valley Ramblings — Authority: 138
  (Bloggers Note: I have a video to post here, but youtube is down for maintenance. Once funcionality is restored, Ill embed my illegal video from inside the walls of Northampton Countys jail and delete this note.) Its happened again. In October, Bethlehem Townships Zoning Hearing Board ordered me to turn my ...
  3 weeks ago

• How Joe Long Stacked the Deck

  
  Lehigh Valley Ramblings — Authority: 138
  Northampton County Democratic bossman Joe "Bossman" Long is affectionately referred to by lame duck Charles Dertinger as "chairman for life." But if truth be told, hes been an unmitigated disaster. I want to tell you how it happened. In eight years at the helm, Long has alienated Lehigh County Executive Don ...
  3 weeks ago

• Should We Cut Open Space Funding to Reduce Tax Increase?

  
  Lehigh Valley Ramblings — Authority: 138
  Several years ago, Northampton and Lehigh County both overwhelmingly adopted referendums to approve public funding for farmland preservation, county and municipal parks and environmentally sensitive land. Its what we call open space. After being elected County Executive, John Stoffa proposed a half mill tax increase ...
  4 weeks ago

• Lorenas Story:

  
  Lehigh Valley Ramblings — Authority: 138
  Northampton Countys seal contains just two words - "mercy" and "justice." Those lofty words are there to remind us, better than any mission statement, of the Countys core responsibilities. County officials have finally agreed to allow Lorena , a female inmate with medical problems, to be examined by the doctor of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Northampton County Female Inmates Denied Equal Treatment

  
  Lehigh Valley Ramblings — Authority: 138
  Over the past two weeks, Ive been regaling you with stories about a female inmate at Northampton Countys jail. Her name is Lorena. She claims to be a victim of medical neglect and to have even witnessed what certainly appears to be physical abuse. A drug offender, shes also the inspiration for the rehabilitative ...
  4 weeks ago

• Who Will Lead Northampton County Dems?

  
  Lehigh Valley Ramblings — Authority: 138
  Northampton County may be increasingly Democratic, but you wouldnt know that from the election results. Bossman Joe Longs heavy handed machine style of politics, in which candidates are pre-selected by some small group and foisted on the rest of us, has been an unmitigated disaster. Thankfully, Joe Long intends to ...
  4 weeks ago

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