Monday, April 22, 2013
Mandy Jesse, owner of Hatboro re-purposing business Primitive Dwelling, shares insight on the differences in furniture and home decor styles.
Would you recognize–and appreciate–"distress" in a piece of furniture? Mandy Jesse, owner of Hatboro-based furniture and home decor re-purposing business, Primitive Dwelling, shared with Patch what sets various furnishing styles apart. To create the primitive look, for instance, Jesse takes what some would deem a perfectly fine piece of painted or stained furniture and she uses a hand sander to strip away its color. "You always do it where they're supposed to be worn," Jesse said, adding that knobs and edges are popular points to "distress." From there, she applies different stains to darken it. For "really primitive" pieces, Jesse said she adds "distress all over." "Primitive is mess-friendly," Jesse said. "It looks rustic." For …
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Hatboro-Horsham High School students from the Helping Little Hands and Interact clubs combined forces to present "Noogiefest," a non-scary Halloween event at Gilda's Club in Warminster.
Two clubs from Hatboro-Horsham High School came together with one common goal: Give back to the community. On Friday, Helping Little Hands and Interact combined forces and put together “Noogiefest” - an un-scary haunted house for children at Gilda’s Club in Warminster. “We are a group that reaches out into the community, and this is just one of the places we go here at Gilda’s, but we reach out to the community and help children,” said Helping Little Hands President, Danielle Lang. “There are families that come to Gilda’s that have cancer in the family and tonight we are having a haunted house for the kids.” The main theme for the third annual Halloween event was Scooby Doo, with separate concepts in different rooms of the Club to delight …
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Funeral arrangements will be held Sept. 1 at Nativity of Our Lord Church in Warminster for Susan Ben, a former Hatboro resident.
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Susan D. (Hvasta) Ben, a Scranton native and former Hatboro resident, died on Aug. 26 at Abington Memorial Hospital. She was 79. She was the wife of the late Adam M. Ben. A 1950 graduate of Central High School in Scranton and a 1953 graduate of State Teachers College in Bloomsburg, Mrs. Ben taught in Hatfield and was an adult evening classes instructor for more than 20 years in the Hatboro-Horsham, Upper Dublin, Upper Moreland and Centennial school districts. She was also a daily substitute teacher. She retired from Crane Chempump in Warrington in 1997 after working 21 years as an administrative assistant. Mrs. Ben is survived by her children, Adam Ben and his wife Dee; Michael Ben and his wife Karen; Carl Ben; Susan (Ben) Van Abs and …
Friday, August 17, 2012
Warminster’s loss is Hatboro’s gain as merchants flee the indoor retail village for their own stores.
They sell jewelry, vintage albums, collectibles and electronic cigarettes and offer communication and computer services. Their businesses, on the surface, appear varied and seem to have little in common. But, on closer review, seven Hatboro businesses have all shared the same roof. That is, all have gotten their starts, or spent time growing their ventures, at the 263 Marketplace in Warminster. Looking to expand, they separately, yet collectively, moved from the nearly 2-year-old weekend-only indoor shopping center to Hatboro’s downtown shopping district along York Road. In all, the influx of merchants trading booths for brick and mortar storefronts in the last year represents about 10 percent of the borough’s new businesses, according to…
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
A man who claimed that he had beaten and robbed at a Sunoco mini-mart at Warminster and County Line roads Tuesday afternoon, has been arrested for filing a false police report.
A man who initially appeared to have been a victim of a beating and robbery Tuesday has been arrested after Upper Moreland Police said the man fabricated the entire story. The man, who police have not named, had claimed that two Hispanic males between the ages of 18 and 20 had beat him and robbed him at the Sunoco mini-mart, located at Warminster and County Line roads in Upper Moreland, on the Hatboro border. Following the report, police issued an alert on Nixle asking for help in locating the alleged suspects. K9 units and patrol officers from multiple jurisdictions assisted in the search for the suspects. As a result of the information provided by the man, two subjects were briefly detained and investigated. Police sent a followup …
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Four suspects have been arrested and another is incarcerated for an unrelated offense.
Four men have been arrested and charged in connection with a March 2011 home invasion robbery in which a 33-year-old disabled Hatboro man was pistol-whipped and severely beaten with a crow bar. This week's arrests of Troy Schussler, 30, of Horsham, Teron Utsey, 29, of Warminster, Robert Johnson, 31, of Perkasie and Michael Wroblewski, 26, of Hatfield follow a year-long joint investigation conducted by the Hatboro Police Department and the Montgomery County Detective Bureau. Charges include felony counts of robbery, criminal conspiracy, burglary, aggravated assault and weapons offenses. A fifth suspect, Huett Kendall "KG" Johnson, formerly of Hatboro and presently incarcerated in the state of New Jersey, is also facing charges related to …
Starting Monday and lasting until August, SEPTA will bus customers at the Warminster and Hatboro stations to the Willow Grove station while workers repair electrical lines.
The new SEPTA schedule beginning next week will have a major change for Warminster and Hatboro travelers. The restoration project of overhead catenary wires along SEPTA’s Warminster Regional Rail Line will result in mid-day weekday shuttle busing between Warminster, Hatboro and Willow Grove Stations from April 2 until August 2012. Catenary wires are used to propel the trains along their routes. The shuttle buses will operate between Warminster, Hatboro and Willow Grove stations on weekdays from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Passengers traveling to Center City will board shuttle buses at Warminster Station, 13 minutes before their regularly scheduled train times, as shown in the newly revised Regional Rail timetable. The buses will travel to Hatboro…
Friday, January 27, 2012
The suspects were said to have stolen property from two commercial businesses in Hatboro on two different occasions in November.
Three Warminster residents have been arrested in connection with a pair of November burglaries at commercial businesses in Hatboro. Michael E. Jones, 47, Richard Jastrzebski, 18 and a 17-year-old boy, all of Warminster, allegedly stole two industrial air-conditioning units valued at $3,500 each from the exterior of a commercial building in the 400 block of Lincoln Avenue overnight between Nov. 6 and Nov. 7. Police said the units were then sold as scrap metal for $174. Hatboro police also said that overnight between Nov. 12 and Nov. 13, the alleged thieves entered a commercial business in the 400 block of Springdale Avenue and stole approximately 50 used car batteries which were then sold as scrap for $243. As a result of the first alleged …
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Bux-Mont Meals on Wheels volunteers bring food - and friendship.
He greets his regular visitors with a plastic fork and spoon tucked into the pocket of his flannel shirt. It’s 10:30 a.m., but Joe Celano gestures with his hands to “mangi, mangi.” The ever-charismatic Celano, 95, who served as Hatboro’s mayor from 1982 through 2006, peels back the foil cover over his green beans and lasagna and encourages his meal deliverer, Betty Shepherd, to join him in dining – but not before serenading her in Italian. It’s one of a dozen regular scenes that play out for Betty Shepherd and her husband John, of Horsham, as they deliver meals to residents of Hatboro, Horsham, Upper Moreland and Warminster as part of the Bux-Mont Meals on Wheels. “This is an excellent, rewarding volunteering opportunity,” John Shepherd …
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Betty Carpenito's homemade gingerbread serves as the foundation for edible houses - and family bonding.
The wreath adorned with gingerbread men in Betty Carpenito’s kitchen says it all: “Baked With Love.” Love is what inspires Carpenito, of Hatboro, to buy and mix – with help from her three Kitchen Aid mixers - 50 pounds of flour, 10 pounds of brown sugar, 20 bottles of molasses, 40 eggs, a half pound of ginger and a half pound of cinnamon every year, beginning the weekend after Thanksgiving. With a batch of gingerbread baking in the oven, another cooling in a container and still others partially assembled on her kitchen countertop and on her dining room table, the smell of gingerbread wafts through her home, but Carpenito’s nose is none the wiser. “The first day I smell it,” Carpenito says. “And then, afterward, I don’t.” Smelling it could …
christina Wise
9:42 am on Saturday, October 13, 2012
The teens did an amazing job last night with the haunted house, decorating, baking, crafts, face painting, games & clean up. Thank you Interact & Helping Little Hands clubs and a special thank you to Mrs. Harmon. You all made the night very special for our Gilda's Club Members. Christina - Children & Teen Coordinator at Gilda's Club Delaware Valley more ›