Community Corner

Five Things for October 19

What's going on around town today.

  • Local artists will showcase their talents during the Bucks Mont League's Member Show tonight at 7 p.m. at the . All are welcome to attend the show, which will be judged by muralist Jennifer Finch.
  • A U.S. Marine sergeant faces up to 20 years in jail in connection with alleged thefts of approximately 60,000 pounds of metal from , Hatboro-Horsham Patch .
  • National Weather Service says there's going to be showers for most of the day, with a high near 63. 
  • Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and hundreds of Palestinians crossed Israel's borders in opposite directions on Tuesday as a thousand-for-one prisoner exchange brought joy to families but did little to ease decades of conflict, NBC News reports. Simultaneously, Israel freed 477 Palestinian prisoners, most of them to the Gaza Strip, where Hamas leaders greeted former prisoners piling off buses bearing Red Cross insignia.
  • On this day, October 19, 1789, John Jay is sworn in as the first chief justice of the Supreme Court.


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