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34th Annual “Touch the Future” Art Show Honors Bucks & Montgomery High School Students
Top works of art from Bucks and Montgomery County high school students were featured during the 34th Annual “Touch the Future” art show, presented virtually this year in collaboration with Montgomery County Community College. “Touch the Future” is a professionally juried art exhibit created in honor of Christa McAuliffe, the NASA teacher and astronaut who…
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“Hope Travels 5K” Supports Mission to Help Patients Cover Medical Expenses Through Community-Based Fundraising
It can be a lonely and frightening road for the chronically ill or injured, especially for those facing transplant surgery, or dealing with a sudden spinal cord injury. Not only do they have to cope with the trauma of their diagnosis, they and their families also face exorbitant medical costs. The COVID-19 pandemic has only…
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Sherriff Woody and Buzz Lightyear on Duty: Police Force Employs Special Team of Recruits
Quakertown Borough Police Department’s 22 new recruits were volunteered to assist with law enforcement, and during that time, they rode with officers, handled paperwork and swung into action. What’s unusual is that this patrol was made up entirely of playthings, reports Jamie Stover at WFMZ. The criminal justice/cartoon star mashup was the idea of Ashton Miller, coordinator of the Quakertown…
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FDA Clearance for Bucks County Medical Device Company May Steady MS Patients’ Walking
Helius Medical Technology — a medical device company in Newtown — has received marketing clearance from the Food and Drug Administration, clearing its flagship product, writes John George for the Philadelphia Business Journal. The device is a portable neuromodulator stimulator (PoNS). It was approvied for use as a short-term treatment of the gait deficiencies that affect walking in patients with mild-to-moderate symptoms…
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The List of New Hope Descriptors — Artsy, Open, Vibrant, Upscale — Just Gained a New One: Exciting!
New Hope, which once rose to prominence for being halfway through a day’s journey from Philadelphia to New York, has stepped out of the shadow of both nearby metropolises to stand on its own as one of Thrillist.com’s Most Exciting Suburbs of 2021. The ranking cites a two-for-one excursion point for visitors, who can explore New Hope’s quaintness and charm…
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Meridian Bank House of the Week: Charming Modern Rancher Nestled in the New Hope Woods
A gorgeous contemporary ranch home with three bedrooms and two bathrooms is available for sale in New Hope, writes Sandy Smith for the Philadelphia Magazine. This beautifully renovated home perfectly combines the old-school charm of a mid-1970s rancher with all the amenities of modern living. . . The reclaimed wood-beamed ceilings and matching floors along…
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Bucks County Schools Meet Students’ Nutritional Needs with Some Out-of-the-(Lunch)-Box Thinking
By the end of the 2020-2021 school year, the 13 Bucks County school districts will have distributed more than 2 million free meals to students. That provision — especially breakfasts — was already a key component of healthy learning environments. But in a timeframe where unemployment and economic stability wracked local families, it became even more vital, writes Damon C. Williams for the Bucks…
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NYT: Local Pandemic Numbers — Like a Good News/Bad News Rollercoaster — Continue to Rise and Fall
The number of cases has started increasing once again over the last two weeks, keeping Bucks County at a very high-risk level for the coronavirus, according to The New York Times. The number of hospitalized patients has remained about the same while COVID-19-related deaths have increased compared to two weeks ago. The test positivity rate stayed high. In…
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Road Relief: PennDOT Schedules Pothole Repairs for Five Bucks County State-Owned Highways
The gut-wrenching ka-WHAM of bouncing your car through a bomb-crater in the middle of a Bucks County highway may become a little rarer, thanks to a PennDOT effort. Travel may be restricted over the next few weeks, as road crews patch and fill, but the delays will make spring and summer travel less stressful, reports CBS Philly. Six local state routes are…
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Bucks County Couple, Married 30 Years, Recounts their Story: It All Started with a Blind-Date Doorbell Ring
Not many marriages begin with a nervous man hesitatingly pushing the doorbell button on a blind date. But that was exactly the scenario that brought Ben and Cindy Singer together, writes Kellie Patrick Gates for The Philadelphia Inquirer. They went to a jazz club danced to Nat King Cole and dated for weeks thereafter. He moved from Northeast Philadelphia to an apartment in Holland…
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From the Darkness of a Church’s Easter Vigil Comes a COVID-19 “Memorial of Light”
St. Andrew Episcopal Church in Yardley is adding a COVID-19 memorial service to its traditional 8 p.m. Easter Vigil, reports the Bucks County Herald. The April 3 “Memorial of Light” will honor all the victims of the pandemic, many of whom went publicly unmourned because of distancing restrictions. Submitted images of lost loved ones will be projected on the church building. A solo flute will accompany the…
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The Number of Vaccinated Bucks Countians is Rising, But So, Too, Is the Number of Infections
Over the past two weeks, the number of COVID-19 vaccines delivered in Bucks County has risen, with 11,000 shots last week, an increase of more than a third over prior weeks. But positive test results are also still climbing, reports Doug Gross of the Warminster Patch. There were 1,349 new coronavirus infections reported in Bucks County from March…
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Out of Reel Concern about COVID, PA Consolidates 2021 Trout Season Opening
The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) has standardized the 2021 opening of trout season across all waterways in the Commonwealth. It has also moved opening day two weeks earlier to April 3. The change is COVID related, designed to reduce the travel associated with both stocking and fishing multiple waterways across staggered openings. “Thank you to the anglers and boaters of Pennsylvania for their understanding…
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Regional Medical Center Earns Spot on Newsweek’s Best-of List both Locally and Nationally
Doylestown Hospital has been ranked eighth in Pennsylvania and 142nd in the U.S. as part of Newsweek’s 2021 list of World’s Best Hospitals. “Doylestown Health is dedicated to continuous improvement in quality care and patient safety,” said President and CEO Jim Brexler. “Achieving regional and national rankings is not our goal, but we humbly accept this prestigious recognition of our amazing health…
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“Arrested Development” Star Passes; Her 60+ Year Hollywood Career Started at Bucks County Playhouse
Actress Jessica Walter, who played TV matriarch Lucille Bluth on Arrested Development, passed away March 24 at age 80. Her career started gaining traction in the late 1950s, boosted by an appearance at Bucks County Playhouse, reports Mike Dougherty for KYW Newsradio. Walter spent much of the 1950s and 1960s playing small parts on network television, evidenced by extensive once-and-done IMDB listings for shows such as The Fugitive and Mission: Impossible. In 1971,…
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The Sweeter Side of Spring: Local Artists Create Displays Using Heaps of Peeps
For the second year in a row, Peddler’s Village is hosting a peep show. But this one is much more family friendly that that label may suggest. It comprises artwork made from the sugar-coated marshmallow treats made in nearby Bethlehem, Pa., writes Peter Blanchard for the Doylestown Patch. More than 90 creations — mainly made from PEEPS — are on display in…
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¿Cómo obtengo una vacuna? St. Luke University Health System Offers COVID Vaccine Information in Spanish
Shot-Line, St. Luke’s over-the-phone vaccination scheduling system, is now in Spanish — facilitating and expediting outreach to Spanish speakers who have yet to register for a COVID vaccine appointment. The health system is providing vaccines to Bucks County residents via its Quakertown campus. This unique outbound-dialing system, developed by and exclusively for St. Luke’s, enables those whose preferred…
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After the Pandemic Put an Intermission in its Renovations, the County Theater Flickers Back to Life
If the multimillion-dollar renovation of the County Theater were a list of coming attractions, it would read something like this: Nestle in the new seats! Gaze at the gigantic screen! Marvel at the state-of-the-art projection technology! And bask in the glow of the refurbed neon sign! Opening… soon? That’s TBD, writes Freda R. Savana for the Bucks County Herald. John Toner, the arthouse cinema’s founding director…
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