Community Corner

Five Things for December 1

What's going on around town today.

  • The Warminster Board of Supervisors will meet tonight at 7 p.m. at the administration building. On the agenda is the recognition of outgoing supervisor Gail Johnson for his years of service and honoring Caroline Gallis, who is retiring as library director, and David Ralston, who is retiring from the Ben Wilson Senior Center.
  • Nineteen teens ranging in age from 15 to 19 years old were charged with underage drinking Saturday, after Hatboro Police received a report of an underage drinking party at an East Lehman Avenue residence, Hatboro-Horsham Patch .
  • Sunny again today, with the temperature at a crisp 51, according to the National Weather Service.
  • Private-sector payrolls surged and planned job cuts eased in November, indicating some improvement in the job market and raising hopes for the government employment report due later this week, CNN reports. The private sector added a seasonally adjusted 206,000 non-farm jobs in November, according to a monthly report issued Wednesday by payroll-processing company ADP. The company also boosted the number of private-sector jobs reported in October to 130,000 from the originally reported 110,000.
  • On this day, December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.


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