- State representative Bernie O’Neill will host a Q & A session with a PECO representative Wednesday, 1-3 p.m., about the new electricity options available to residents and how they can choose a new supplier.
- Warminster Department of Parks and Recreation is looking for volunteers to help build Safetytown, a new, interactive model town that will be constructed in Warminster Community Park. The scheduled build dates are May 21-22 9 a.m.-2 p.m., June 5, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., and June 18 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
- Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett a statement honoring May as Older Americans Month. “Older Pennsylvanians are such an important part of our communities,” he said. “They carry the wisdom of experience, the lessons of hard work and they deserve our respect.”
- Record flooding of the Mississippi River has caused thousands of residents from Arkansas to Tennessee to flee their homes, ABC News reports. More than 1,300 homes have been ordered to evacuate and another 240 have been warned that they might need to leave. Nearly 400 people are staying in shelters.
- On this day, May 9, 1955, Jim Henson and Kermit the Frog make their television debut on Sam and Friends.
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