Community Corner

Five Things for September 14

What's going on around town today.

  • Warminster's Heaviest Tomato Contest is still going. Residents in Bucks and Montgomery County are encouraged to enter the the contest, sponsored by Burpee Seeds, by stopping by the , Mon.-Fri. between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. to weigh their plumpest tomato. The contest runs through Sept. 23, and the winner will receive a prize.
  • chance of showers this afternoon with a high near 85, according to the National Weather Service.
  • In an effort to keep the Neshaminy community informed, the Neshaminy Federation of Teachers [NFT] held a press conference Tuesday afternoon about the contract talks and what teachers are doing to reach a compromised agreement with the school district, Lower Southampton Patch .
  • A gunman armed with several weapons opened fire in an Arkansas courthouse on Tuesday, wounding two people including a court employee before he was shot dead by police, officials told Reuters. The officials told the news service the man, armed with two handguns and an assault rifle, opened fire on the second floor of a courthouse in Van Buren, Arkansas, in violence a police dispatcher said appeared to have been related to a domestic issue.
  • On this day, September 14, 1901, President William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt on Sept. 6, with Vice President Theodore Roosevelt succeeding him.


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