It has been chilling to once again hear of possible nuclear war. Something no one wants has been hinted at in press coverage of Putin’s war on Ukraine. As a long-time member of the Coalition for …
Presidential candidates Mike Pence and Ron DeSantis have both promised that, as president, they will restore the newly christened Fort Liberty back to its previous name of Fort Bragg.
When we moved to this part of Bucks County about 30 years ago it looked a lot different. Dublin ran along Route 313 from Elephant Road to Route 113, just about the way it does today, but behind those …
A few months ago, I looked for an opportunity to make a civic contribution. I was introduced to Jennifer Williford, the dedicated executive director of Fisherman’s Mark. Although extremely busy …
We certainly have our problems in this great nation but, despite that, it is the greatest country on the planet and I am thankful every day to live here. That being said, I must admit I scratch my …
According to the U.S. Census, the population of the world is nearly 8 billion people. Also, according to the U.S. Census, the population of America is over 335 million. These figures include women, …
Stafford Wavrek’s kitchen wall is plastered with concert schedules and he’s got the tickets to match. He rarely misses a concert in either Bucks County or the Lehigh Valley. Now retired, this …
Henry Townsend Darlington (1832-1878) was born in Chester County in 1832. He moved to Doylestown as a young man and eventually became publisher of the Bucks County …
Oh Moon, whose ancient face has viewed this mortal sphere from Alpha on, until this very night, when silent shafts of glow creep down to change each daytime shape with soft, ethereal light.
House Bill 1239, the Veterans Entering the Sustainability Sector (VETSS) Program Act, recently introduced in the PA House of Representatives by State Rep. Joe Webster, is a first-of-its-kind program …
Nobody wants a flat tire. Especially when you’ve left your phone at home (darn), there’s no one else on the road, and you are a 78-year-old woman who hasn’t changed a tire since age 16, when …
Kids across Pennsylvania are enjoying their summer break. And while school’s out and their parents are at work, it falls on all of us — parents, guardians, neighbors and community members — to …
I am writing to you today to write about something that I think is very important to me in my neighborhood. My home is in Yardley and my neighborhood —Sandy Run — does not have streetlights.
In the June 29 edition of the Herald, Kathryn Finegan Clark’s By the Way: “Ideological fences might as well be canyons” appropriates Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” to fit a ideologically …
Some disasters, like earthquakes and tornadoes, are natural and we can only prepare for them. Other disasters, like droughts, floods and forest fires, are aggravated by our warming planet and we are …
Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick has broken his long habit of silence related to anything to do with Donald Trump and has issued a statement about the former president’s 37 felony-count indictment. …
Books by local authors have piled up on my desk for years, some skimmed, others unread, some set aside for another day. Art Ross wrote one of those books. I always meant to write about it, but every …
The era of picnics in the middle of the 19th century gave all who participated a great deal of pleasure, according to Doylestown historian W.W.H Davis.
The day after my mother’s death, my niece and I pour through photo albums, find a box of loose, curled, snapshots — images of the massacre at Gardelegen —a barn door opened by American …
There are several ancient uses for the term, “going to pot”; all boil down to old food sources, alive or cooked, good for nothing but the soup pot. Here, now, is America, going to pot.
