Community Corner

Five Things for August 2

What's going on around town today.

  • Warminster's Communications Advisory Committee meets tonight at 7 p.m. at the .
  • Today it'll be sunny with a high near 89, according to the National Weather Service.
  • Westboro Baptist Church, the Kansas-based church known for protesting homosexuality at military funerals, has plans to picket at St. Andrew’s Catholic Church this Sunday during a service for Sergeant First Class Kenneth B. Elwell, NewtownPatch .
  • U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords returned to the floor of the House of Representatives Monday evening for the first time since she was grievously wounded during a January assassination attempt, CNN reports. Giffords, D-Arizona, was met by thunderous applause from colleagues as she walked into the chamber to support a hard-fought bill that would raise the U.S. debt ceiling.
  • On this day, August 2, 1934, Adolf Hitler becomes Fuhrer of Germany.


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