Community Corner

Five Things for August 8

What's going on around town today.

  • The Warminster Library is hosting a summer reading party today at 2:30 p.m. There will be lots of food and prizes and entertainment by DARIA World Music
  • Chance of thunderstorms in the afternoonwith a high of 91 today, according to the National Weather Service.
  • Hundreds turned out for a memorial service held Sunday for Sergeant First Class Kenneth B. Elwell, who was killed in Afghanistan last month, NewtownPatch .
  • U.S. stocks were set to tumble at the open Monday, tracking deep declines in global markets, as investors get their first opportunity to react to Standard & Poor's downgrade of U.S. debt, CNN reports.
  • On this day, August 8, 1974, President Richard Nixon announces his resignation, effective the next day.


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