The real Hilde Lysiak's publication was called the Orange Street News.
Though the show takes place on Erie Harbor, Washington, the real Lysiak family moved to Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania.
The Johnson farm in season 2 is the Kent Farm from Smallville.
Typically police officers are not allowed to drink alcohol in bars while in uniform, even at a "cop" bar.
At one point Hilde says to friends that "there's no such thing as a permanent record, it's just something adults say to scare you." In a way she's right. In general, juvenile records do disappear when you become an adult. You continue to have a record, it's just now it's your adult record and it is permanent.