- William Tennent's football team opens the regular season with a home game against Wissahickon tonight at 7 p.m.
- Centennial School District has issued a to allegations found in court documents, originally by Upper Southampton Patch. Editor Jen Mohan has a .pdf file of Dr. Thomas Turnbaugh's contract with CSD that she as obtained by filing Right-to-Know requests.
- Skies will be sunny today but the chance of thunderstorms is back this weekend, according to the National Weather Service.
- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 struck Friday off the coast of Alaska, the U.S. Geological Survey reported to CNN. The quake was initially reported to have occurred a depth of 6.2 miles, but the Geological Survey later updated its reading to say it was 22 miles deep. The earthquake occurred 120 miles east-southeast of Atka, Alaska, in a sparsely populated part of the Aleutian Islands known as the Fox Islands. The epicenter was 1,658 miles west southwest of Anchorage, the Geological Survey told the news network.
- On this day, September 2, 1789, the U.S. Department of the Treasury is founded.
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