Charles Malinchak

Saucon Valley High School students clad in masks dismiss in the fall of 2020. (Monica Cabrero

Election 2025: Saucon Valley School Board candidates talk budgets, cellphones, transparency

October 15, 2025 at 7:00 a.m.

Six candidates are seeking four seats on the Saucon Valley School Board in a race where they have given their views on budgets and taxes, cell phones, transparency and keeping...

Macungie Elementary School exterior June 17, 2019. (Kristen Harrison/The Morning Call)

Election 2025: East Penn School Board candidates discuss taxes, school safety and realignment

October 1, 2025 at 2:04 p.m.

Taxes, community involvement, school safety and the district’s thorny realignment plan were some of the topics discussed Tuesday night by six candidates seeking four seats on the board of the...

The entrance road to the Haycock Camp Ministries camp property is seen Tuesday, Nov, 21, 2023 on School Road in Springfield Township. (Monica Cabrera/The Morning Call)

Upper Bucks Christian camp is changing its expansion plans, thanks in part to a sunny outlook for a trout creek

September 16, 2025 at 7:01 a.m.

An Upper Bucks Christian camp has significantly scaled back a plan to expand with amenities like a splash park, firearm range and 100-space parking lots, bringing relief to neighbors who...

The normally quiet Haycock Township, home to Nockamixon State Park, has been roiled by discontent among residents for township leaders. (Rick Kintzel/The Morning Call)

This Upper Bucks community canceled a township meeting after a threat. Residents met anyway amid growing concerns

September 15, 2025 at 7:01 a.m.

A normally quiet upper Bucks County township is roiling from a threat against a township supervisor and growing mistrust from residents over its governing body.

Emmaus High School exterior, June 17, 2019. (Kristen Harrison/The Morning Call)

Here’s how much East Penn’s plans to realign middle schools, enlarge high school could cost taxpayers

June 24, 2025 at 4:19 p.m.

Plans in East Penn School District to realign the middle schools and enlarge the high school could require dramatic tax hikes that would add hundreds, or even thousands of dollars,...

Students at Quakertown Elementary walk to a school bus after early dismissal due to heat in 2008. The district is considering tearing down the historic building in part because it can’t handle required upgrades to air conditioning and other systems. (Catherine Meredith/The Morning Call)

‘As a history person it kills me’: Lehigh Valley area district may demolish century-old school

June 17, 2025 at 7:00 a.m.

The nearly century-old Quakertown Elementary School could face the wrecking ball in 2026 to make way for a $60 million replacement.

Tyler Coleman and his son Elliott, 3, walk through the former Mativ factory on North Fourth Street on Friday, April 18, 2025, in Quakertown. The property is being redeveloped for industrial use. (Monica Cabrera/The Morning Call)

A developer wanted to raze a historic Quakertown mill and replace it with housing. The building’s new owner has a different plan

April 22, 2025 at 7:02 a.m.

About a block off Quakertown’s main thoroughfare, the long building speaks to an age when manufacturing was close to home rather than tucked away in a manicured industrial park.

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