This fall, as many readers have seen, the Herald’s 20th anniversary was the subject of a video named “Miracle in Bucks County.” It’s the story of the founding of this local news medium …
Farmers say, “One groundhog will eat a ton of beans.” They don’t mean one 13-pound marmota monax in a field can ingest a ton of soybeans, but that a single groundhog destroys bean shoots …
A final Veterans Day salute to my father, Herbert Sandor. Dad died a few months ago, reducing the ranks of American World War II vets alive today to fewer than 400,000. I share this on the eve …
I am in favor of the Neshaminy Greenway Trail. I have been on the Doylestown Bike and Hike Committee for over 10 years. I am presently on the CADC for the ongoing feasibility study for the …
A tiny pooch with a heart-shaped patch of black on her tail end had a story to tell and a Nockamixon Township grandmother had a need to tell it.The peak of the pandemic, said Bonita …
We are now entering the most beautiful time of the year but, regardless of the holiday group hug, recent elections leave Americans cold. We’re facing the continuation of a divided, implacable, …
The U.S. Postal Service has been hard at work preparing for the holiday season since January. Rest assured, we’re holiday ready and well prepared to deliver fast and reliable service to every …
It was alarming earlier this year to learn about the very poor policy and position that the Central Bucks School Board took related to book and library policy. I wrote in these pages that the …
I have always resisted writing letters to the editor but this is where I start. I am 87 years old. In grade school I had two math teachers - Mrs. Morris and Miss Luckey. How they managed to …
Beautiful fall foliage ushered me into the medically defined, SAD, Seasonal Affective Disorder. The drop in temperature produced cold hands and feet, Vitamin D3 deficiency and insomnia. With …
Before Pam and David Anderson moved to Connecticut from Solebury in 2003, they bought 11 acres of land in Upper Bucks County – they knew they would be back. And years later, they came with a vision that would take them into a different world.
A front page article in the Nov. 17 Herald reported a decision by the Central Bucks School District to engage the law firm of Duane Morris LLP, and specifically Philadelphia partner Bill McSwain, …
The results of the midterm election surprised most of us. Since the 1940s, midterm elections following most presidents’ first term, have resulted in a sizable loss of congressional …
During this holiday season, I thought I would share a family story of gratitude about my father – Lester Segarnick, who died at age 88 of natural causes about 10 years ago. Upon turning 18 …
I hate the fact that our politics resorts to lawn and road signs to convince voters to vote for candidates. In an ideal democracy, name recognition would not need to be created for uninformed …
One day I got a call from a stranger inviting me to join a support group. After years of caregiving responsibilities, followed by the death of my husband, I had hit rock bottom.
Journalists like me often get to see things or do things not generally available to the public — happier things I will always treasure and tragic ones I wish I could erase from my memory.
The futures of Americans, and the world, rely on many things other than politics. Yet, so many of those things start with politics. Nations around the world took longer to get on the …
Fall is such a beautiful time of year—comfortable warm days and crisp nights, brilliant cloudless skies and a stunning rainbow of leaves in shades of yellows through purples. Unfortunately …
On Aug. 2, 2021, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is quoted as saying that it “will be hard not to hit” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with the speaker’s gavel if he becomes the Republican …
