Thank you for including Maximillian Driks article “Chalfont residents blast council for clearing trees with no notice for walking trail they oppose” in last week’s edition of the Herald. It is …
Due to the number of returning World War II veterans impacted by mental health issues, in 1949 Congress designated May as Mental Health Awareness Month. Today our system is underfunded and collapsing …
Ask any Pennridge parent, and you will hear story after story of our kids’ teachers going the extra mile to support students and make learning engaging. Ms. Granite and Ms. Wetzel’s Deibler …
Fisherman’s Mark is well known for food support through our Free MARKet food pantry, but there’s so much more to what we do. We advocate at every level for individuals and families in need of …
Sally Fabian Oresic was having second thoughts about retirement when I talked to her in mid-May. “What was I thinking?” she asked as the June 30 day approached. Her leaving the Ann Silverman Health Clinic is tinged with sadness as she is parting from a career she has cherished.
In the year 1950 on a cool September morn Was a tragic disaster yet to be born. Just ahead was a troop train stalled on the track And the Spirit of St. Louis was coming in the back. Then it all happened, …
Chatterbox is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re going to get. I confess, “Forrest Gump” wasn’t my box of chocolates; I couldn’t get through it, but it birthed some …
In the last week of May 1904, The Intelligencer announced, “Nothing unusual is scheduled to appear in the Memorial Day celebration in Doylestown. Year after …
Four score and 13 years ago, I came into the vale of tears, the product of Mary McMonagle Forbes and Arthur Forbes of Germantown. The ensuing five decades all contained periods of hardship, despair …
Recently, we have all seen the closing of local movie theaters. Quakertown has been impacted by this as well. Formerly a multi-screen theater operated off California Road behind Walmart, the building …
I want to add a comment after reading about the Solebury supervisors’ intent to add a charging station to the township-owned land at the Route 202 site of the former flea market near Logan Square …
After every mass shooting there is a furtive quest to discover why the shooter would do something so horrible to other fellow human beings. It is hard to imagine why someone could take a life, let …
I read the recent opinion column from Amy McGahran (“Study the implications of bringing in a school resource officer,” April 13) concerning the issue of school resource officers and would like to …
Lambertville, with a population of around 4,000 is supposedly one of the smallest cities in the U.S. It is unclear what justifies its claim to be a city. In the U.K. by contrast, a place can only be …
Most average people disapprove of the proliferation and hypocrisy of photoshopping models’ and celebrities’ wrinkles, pimples, and body flab. Years ago, we talked about airbrushing photos, …
One of the many outstanding features of Doylestown’s handsome James-Lorah Memorial Home is the St. Cecelia stained glass window designed by Willet Stained Glass and Decorating Co. in Philadelphia. …
We speak in whispers, move in silence from room to room, listen to the oxygen’s steady pump moisture bubbling through the tubes. Three days unresponsive. I sit with her until someone else comes in. …
The Doylestown Intelligencer of June 13, 1889 reported, “A band of gypsies are encamped near the town and several of the women have been going from house to house importuning housewives to …
Since Republicans took over House leadership, they’ve focused on settling political scores but made no serious effort to do the job. Instead, they are taking us to the brink — refusing to pay the …
A recent article by Associated Press reporter Matt Sedensky “Impoverished and living on pennies in a nursing home” exposed the hardships so many of our elderly experience in nursing homes across …
