{"id":312766,"date":"2026-10-23T16:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T16:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/312766\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T16:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T16:26:11","slug":"threat-prompts-closure-of-saucon-valley-school-district-friday-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/312766\/","title":{"rendered":"Threat prompts closure of Saucon Valley School District Friday | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HELLERTOWN, Pa. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.svpanthers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Saucon Valley School District<\/a> said its schools will be closed Friday after a threat was made against the district.<\/p>\n<p>In a news release on its homepage, the district said it became aware of the threat Thursday evening and is closing schools Friday out of an abundance of caution.<\/p>\n<p>The district said students who attend Bethlehem Area Vocational-Technical School can still attend but must provide their own transportation.<\/p>\n<p>The student can be excused if he or she cannot attend, the district said.<\/p>\n<p>The district said there will be no transportation to non-public schools.<\/p>\n<p>All athletics and extracurricular activities are postponed until further notice, according to the district. The district will release more information about scheduled games Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe safety of students and staff is the utmost priority,\u201d the district said.<\/p>\n<p>\nCopyright 2026 Maranatha Broadcasting Co., Inc.. All Rights Reserved.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HELLERTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Saucon Valley School District said its schools will be closed Friday after a threat was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,58410,155,154,204,13912,46140,3676,16409],"class_list":["post-312766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-area-vocational-technical-school","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-hellertown","tag-saucon-valley-school-district","tag-school-closure","tag-student-safety","tag-threat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}