Community Corner

Five Things for December 23

What's going on around town today.

  • The Klinger Middle School Concert Choir will perform today at the Ben Wilson Senior Center at 10 a.m. Following the concert, they will hand out ornaments and cards created by Klinger students.
  • Two Doylestown Township residents were injured Thursday in a car crash on Almshouse Rd. that left their vehicle crumpled against the side of a building, Doylestown Patch . Yakov Kamyshev, 79, and his wife, Inna, of the 1200 block of Almshouse Road, were taken to Abington Hospital after the crash, which happened shortly after 10 a.m.
  • Mostly cloudy today, with a high near 50, according to the National Weather Service. 
  • House Speaker John Boehner announced Thursday that he had agreed with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on a two-month extension of a package including a payroll tax cut and an extension of unemployment benefits, MSNBC reports. Boehner said in statement he and Reid "reached an agreement that will ensure taxes do not increase for working families on Jan. 1 while ensuring that a complex new reporting burden is not unintentionally imposed on small business job creators."
  • On this day, December 23, 1913, the Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve.


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