Mercedes Padrino Anderson arrived in the United States in 1962, a refugee from Fidel Castro’s Cuba.
This month, a Target store is set to open in Doylestown. It’s the closest thing to a department store like the Bon-Ton, which closed in 2018. The new store is built where the Bon-Ton used to be. I grew up in the era of department stores that lined Market Street in Philadelphia between Eighth and 13th streets – Strawbridge and Clothier, John Wanamaker, Gimbel’s, Frank and Seder, and Lit Brothers.
John Larsen should have been pleased last Tuesday when local folks got together to bid him farewell.
At the 50-year benchmark, the Bucks County Audubon Society realized it was time to revise “The Inventory of Natural Resources at Honey Hollow,” which it had created in 1972.
The New Hope Colony Foundation for the Arts opened an exhibition of paintings and drawings by David Stier in the “English Village” at Phillips’ Mill in late April. The foundation, according to a …
Nadine Sobusiak was beside herself with excitement last Friday.Before a stadium filled with thousands of cheering fans, the Buckingham Elementary School second grade teacher was introduced as a …
The Bucks County Opportunity Council presented its 2024 Economic Self-Sufficiency Graduation last week as about 200 supporters gathered at The Warrington to cheer the graduates on.
The Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center in Buckingham Township has a Public Service Wall of Fame at its entrance. In March, the center unveiled a photograph of Mark Schweiker, former governor and …
Phillips’ Mill may be best known for the art exhibitions that have been presented by the Phillips’ Mill Community Association for almost a hundred years. It’s also a social club, producer of …
Back in the 1970s, Langhorne Borough had five churches — and it still does — Presbyterian, Methodist, Episcopal, Baptist and Bethlehem AME, which was founded in 1809 by the Colored Methodist …
How could Patricia Mervine resist the urge to write about Boone Farm? Her parents, Richard and Louise Dougherty Bleiler, were part of its history – they lived in an apartment over the carriage …
In 1970 Ann Hawkes Hutton convened a press luncheon at the Washington Crossing Inn to announce that the original Emanuel Leutze painting, “Washington Crossing the Delaware,” would be removed from …
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? To surrender dreams, this may be madness...Too much sanity may be madness! But maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should …
Chad Dion Lassiter, who looked like a pro basketball player in a pinstripe suit, was taller than everyone in the room on that mid-December day when he visited Bucks County — but his background is social work, and he is the executive director of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission.
In a year like no other, the Bucks County commissioners have mighty big challenges ahead, not the least of which is an unprecedented presidential election — seismic, in fact. But first come county …
From January to December, every week, all year long, the Bucks County Herald offers the news you really need to know — what’s going on in your own backyard.
Justin Anchinsko grew up at Cedar Maze, the magical sculpture garden Steven Snyder created in a wooded area on Cafferty Road north of Point Pleasant. It was a wonderland of stone figures, fountains …
It’s an enormous challenge to write about Mira Nakashima. Her own words tell a story so well that it’s difficult to say anything she hasn’t already said. The best I can do is distill Mira’s …
Architect J. Robert Hillier, owner of the property, assures us that the demolished mansion called Cintra will be rebuilt — the exterior will be almost identical to the original, but …
