On the evening of June 5, the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission issued a “Code Orange” air quality alert for the Delaware Valley for June 6 as smoke from Canadian wildfires blanketed …
Trepidation. The word is more intriguing when we associate it with “intrepid.” The world is filled with those of us who are not intrepid. What separates those who “do” from those who …
We’ve learned so much about the moon since Neil Armstrong first set foot on it in 1969 but its mysterious attraction is still very real. Scientific exploration has painted it as a not very welcoming …
Father’s Day was introduced by Sonora Smart Dodd in Spokane and was celebrated statewide in Washington in 1910. The intent was to complement Mother’s Day in celebrating …
A red roan Appaloosa moseys to the railand pokes her nose across at me to snuffsome sweet hay in my fist, switching her tailas her eyes cross to focus on the stuffthe better in the dim air. Stars are …
Footprints on my barn floor To whom do they belong? To what do they belong?
“There is an emphasis and a great push to have Americans, and the rest of the world for that matter, to move from internal combustion engines to electric motors.” A guest opinion writer opens his …
Gun violence is still a major problem in our country today. Reading and watching extremely negative news stories is getting tiresome. Some of the violence stems from the escalation of the …
In Harrisburg, Republicans believe in creating a child-first, family-focused educational experience where every graduate is prepared for the opportunity to experience earned success. We understand …
In an October 2022 Education Week article titled, “What’s the Point of Civics Education,” Rick Hess, of the American Enterprise Institute, wrote of being “gobsmacked” by the results of a …
Starting in 1964, the Doylestown Youth Recreation Council sponsored basketball and football games, summer recreation programs, the Fanny Chapman swim team, dances in Central …
Nothing beats the real thing – not copies, not photographs, not images on the internet. That’s why the Freeman’s Auctions display at Phillips’ Mill, the birthplace of the original Pennsylvania …
This coming Wednesday is Flag Day here in America.Most of us have heard of it, but what is it? It’s a day of commemoration but not an actual holiday. Signed into law in 1949 simply to honor the …
I was glad to see that a number of Bucks police departments have engaged collaboratively with the NAACP regarding transparency in the three years since the George Floyd killing (“Just, safe …
Recently I attended the Pennridge High School Arts Festival. It was a wonderful display of student art and an incredible concert by the orchestra, chorus and band. Congratulations to the music …
In last week’s article about the New Hope-Solebury School District raising taxes 2 percent (New Hope-Solebury eyes final budget with 2% tax increase, June 1), Board President Judy Finn is quoted as …
On May 24, I attended my first Doylestown Human Relations Commission meeting. I am so glad I went. The program “Step Up, So Others Won’t Get Stepped On!” was an anti-bullying forum with …
Let’s face it. The Pennridge community has never been a hotbed of progressive thinking. During my junior year of high school, 1964-65, Robert Hollenbach stuck his neck out and had us read …
The Doylestown area was once rife with poultry production.
A widow weeds beside the house that has become her husband. She’s annoyed he hasn’t shaved. She walks to the lake that has become her sister. They pour into each other. She tells the lake about …
