Community Corner

Five Things for August 23

What's going on around town today.

  • There's still plenty of time to enter Warminster's Heaviest Tomato Contest. Residents in Bucks and Montgomery County are encouraged to enter the the contest, sponsored by Burpee Seeds, by stopping by the , Mon.-Fri. between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. to weigh their plumpest tomato. The contest runs through Sept. 23, and the winner will receive a prize.
  • Sunny skies with a high near 81 today, according to the National Weather Service.
  • Just before the Neshaminy School Board meeting, the Neshaminy Federation of Teachers leadership will hold a news conference outside of Maple Point Middle School today, Lower Southampton Patch .
  • A status hearing is scheduled for Tuesday in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexual assault case, a day after a New York district attorney said charges should be dropped against the former International Monetary Fund chief, CNN reports. Strauss-Kahn's lawyers applauded the decision. The accuser's attorneys and women's rights activists were outraged.
  • On this day, August 23, 1990, West Germany and East Germany announced they would unite on October 3.


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