Toast to Helping Those Affected by Cancer

Support Gilda's Club during a fundraiser at a Doylestown bar this weekend.

Gilda's Club of Delaware Valley is hosting a fundraising event in Doylestown on Friday, Jan. 25. Board Member Gini Gramaglia, owner of Gini G’s Salon and Day Spa in Southampton, will be guest bartending at The Freight House. A portion of the proceeds will go to Gilda's Club Delaware Valley.  The event will run from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the Freight House, 194 West Ashland Avenue, in Doylestown.  Gilda’s Club is a local, non-profit organization that provides more than 100 free social and emotional support programs for men, women, and children with cancer, as well as people who are affected by it. 

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Bucks County Pumpkinfest Draws Big Crowds to Doylestown

Artists use their creativity and imagination to carve eye-catching designs for admiring fans.

When he first visited the Bucks County Pumpkinfest five years ago, Matt Derby knew right away that he wanted to enter the carving competition. He finally got his chance this year, joining 20 other carvers under bright sunshine and warm temperatures at the Moravian Pottery & Tile Works in Doylestown. Starting at noon and working diligently with his wife Erin’s guidance, Derby carefully carved away at the gigantic pumpkin, slowly revealing the familiar American Gothic scene with a decidedly zombie look. “I love Halloween,” said the Newtown resident and art teacher at Bordentown Middle School in New Jersey. “It’s a big part of my life. I’ve been waiting for this opportunity for a while.” Three hours into his carving -- and with another three …

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Rally Tonight to Rescue Kids Castle

Fifteen years of small feet hiding and seeking, sliding and jousting, and pounding up and down hidden stairways have taken their toll on the "crown jewel" of Doylestown-area parks.

Elections 2012

Romney Campaign Opens "Victory Office" in Bucks

With just over three months until the election, GOP "Super Saturday" aimed to energize grassroots support in Bucks County.

Doylestown Borough Republican committeeman Joe Flood was prepared to spend several hours Saturday knocking on doors with one goal in mind. “We’ve lost a sense of optimism in this country,” he said. “I want to get it back.” Flood was among 50 or so stalwart Republicans who braved oppressive heat and humidity Saturday morning to mark the opening of a “Victory Office” on Broad Street in Doylestown. It was one of dozens of events nationally organized by the GOP to fire up the troops in advance of the November 6 election.  “Why are we here?” county GOP chair Pat Poprik asked the sweltering crowd to get things started. “To take back our country,” they shouted in unison.  Part pep rally and part training session, the event featured remarks by …

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Art As Social Inquiry

10:45 am on Wednesday, August 15, 2012

The clever quips are fine but then what happens? We end up NOT talking about a congressman who sent out an letter seniors with the express intent to scare them into voting for him. Look, Mike sent the letter. Why won't he be part of a forum to explain himself? Who is against public forums where information is dissected for the benefit of citizens? Why is that controversial and undesirable? Please…   more ›

Gunman Surrenders After 10-Hour Armed Standoff in Doylestown

The suspect, an off-duty New Jersey police officer, exchanged sporadic fire with responding officers as mid-afternoon standoff lasts until nearly midnight.

DOYLESTOWN (PA) - In the end, Richard Klementovich had nothing to say. The off-duty police officer from Clifton, NJ, was escorted from the back of a Doylestown Township squad car shortly after midnight Sunday after a 10-hour armed standoff that forced neighbors to evacuate their homes in this affluent suburb of Philadelphia. Klementovich remained silent as officers ushered him into the police department where he would be booked to face at least 13 charges of criminal attempted homicide and reckless endangerment. About a half hour earlier, Klementovich had surrendered without incident to officers on the front lawn of his estranged wife's home at 25 Bittersweet Drive in the Doylestown Lea neighborhood of Doylestown Township. As police began …

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Vern

9:15 pm on Wednesday, June 20, 2012

When you see that kind of police response do not stand there and make it their job to tell you to leave. Be an adult and get your kids to a safe place. The police can not protect the whole world. Stop being a "deer caught in headlights" just because you think it might interesting to see what is going on. Go home and read about it later.   more ›

Susan Corbett Visits Bucks County

Gov. Corbett's wife, Susan, visited Doylestown and Washington Crossing on Wednesday to promote local tourist destinations.

Pennsylvania First Lady Susan Corbett on Wednesday toured two Doylestown musuems and Washington Crossing Historic Park to highlight the cultural and historical treasures of Bucks County. Corbett visited the James A. Michener Art Museum and the Mercer Museum before heading to Washington Crossing. After being taken on a guided tour of the Michener Museum by director Bruce Katsiff, Corbett spoke about her visit. As Pennsylvania's Tourism Ambassador, Corbett said, "I was impressed as soon as I walked up to the museum and saw the building it resides in. After my visit, I know this is an exciting, vibrant, well-thought-through museum." The Michener was founded in 1988 by an endowment from James A. Michener and is making news lately because of …

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Stephen Bliss

7:04 am on Saturday, March 10, 2012

Better her than her husband. If he sees things that people enjoy and are even partially paid for with public funds, They go on his list of things to cut. People enjoy going to school. We need to send our children to school. Too bad sats Corbett, I will cut state aide to schools by 45% in two years, That leaves 55% and two years to go in my term, I will cut state funding by 100% before my term is …   more ›

Doylestown Courthouse to Become a Reality

The 10-year study process culminated Thursday with bids to build the biggest, most expensive capital project Bucks County has ever seen.

Charley Martin didn't get his apology, but the Bucks County judges got their courtrooms and Thomas Bock got the contract to build them. That was the result after a tumultuous two-hour, maximum-capacity meeting at the Bucks Countycourthouse in Doylestown Thursday. In the end, Republican commissioners Martin and Jim Cawley voted to hire several contractors to build the courthouse, including the option to build three contested courtrooms on the proposed building's fifth floor. The contruction bids total $83,973,000. Commissioner Diane Ellis-Marseglia voted against the project. She has argued for years, and repeated the assertion Thursday that the proposed building is too big and too expensive. For Doylestown, of course, this means that the …

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Courthouse in Doylestown on Hold

County Commissioners tabled agreements related to the new courthouse for more discussion.

An 11th hour disagreement with the county judges, along with questions about the general contract bidder, led the Bucks County commissioners on Thursday to table action on bids to build its new courthouse. The $82 million justice center, proposed for the Main Street spot across from the current courthouse, would be the largest public building project in the county's history. Discussions have been going on for 10 years. Further complicating the matter is the fact thatCommissioner James Cawley has been elected lieutenant governor. Thursday was to be his final county meeting. Instead, the commissioners now will meet one more time before Cawley's term is up on Jan. 18. The commissioners plan to schedule a special meeting to consider the …

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