Community Corner

Five Things for June 20

What's going on around town today.

  • Time is running out to purchase a brick for the Hartsville Fire Company's 9/11 Memorial. Purchase a 4x8-inch brick for $50, or an 8x8-inch brick for $150, by July 1 in order to ensure it is completed in time for the 10th anniversary service and dedication of the memorial.
  • Showers and thunderstorms possibly in the afternoon with a high of 85, according to the National Weather Service.
  • The 16-year-old Upper Moreland boy who jumped from the top floor of a 3-story parking garage at Willow Grove Park mall on Wednesday was smoking synthetic marijuana, Abington Police Deputy Chief John Livingood told .
  • Suspected U.S. drones fired missiles at a vehicle and a house in northwest Pakistan, killing 12 people Monday in a rare attack in an area where some of NATO's fiercest enemies have reportedly traveled, Pakistani officials told the Associated Press. The first attack in the Kurram tribal area hit a vehicle, killing five people, said Noor Alam, a local government official. As tribesmen rushed to the scene, the vehicle was again struck, killing two more people, he said.
  • On this day, June 20, 1840, Samuel Morse received his patent for the telegraph.


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