Bucks County
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Bucks County Saw An Increase In Housing Growth Last Year
There is a massive boom in suburban housing across the nation, and the counties surrounding Philadelphia are amongst the most well-off. Erin Davis wrote about the boom for Axios. Between July 2020 and July 2021, Bucks County recorded growth in housing units of 0.2 percent. While it did not manage to beat out the national…
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Southampton-Based Franchisee Has Ambitious Growth Plans for New Qdoba Locations
Southampton-based The Integritty Group is planning a major expansion which will include opening 30 new Qdoba locations in the Philadelphia region. Ryan Mulligan wrote about the expansion for the Philadelphia Business Journal. The local group intends to add a total of 60 new Qdoba locations across five states over the following decade. The ambitious expansion…
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Warminster Inventor Creates Safe and Comfortable Face Masks
Current medical mask designs have not changed, in a beneficial way, for decades. But the pandemic-related need for more habitual covering of the face highlighted the call for improvements in protection, comfort, and performance. The patent-pending Properly Made Masks design meets those needs. As the COVID-10 crisis continued to unfold, Warminster inventor, John Melching Jr.…
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Bucks County Leadership: Felicia Ganther, President, Bucks County Community College
Felicia Ganther, the President of Bucks County Community College, spoke with BUCKSCO Today about being born in Kansas and growing up in southern California; being the first youth appointed to the Board of the American Red Cross in Pasadena and sitting on the city’s first Youth Council; and her first job selling concessions for a…
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Pumpkin Coffee Life: Bucks County’s Best Fall Favorites
Now that the weather has finally turned Fall-like, we can grab our PSL and begin our love of all things pumpkin. Or perhaps you’ve been riding the pumpkin train for the last few weeks already? In any case, these Bucks County cafes have got their Pumpkin Spice lives down to a science. Try out these…
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Bucks County Leadership: Blair Rush, Southeast Region President at C&N
Blair Rush, Southeast Region President at C&N, spoke with BUCKSCO Today about spending his entire life in Bucks County; his memories playing baseball and how the sport helped him become a leader; how being diagnosed with diabetes as a teenager changed his life; and beginning his banking career right out of high school and then…
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BUCKSCO.Today Exists to Grow Our Affiliate Partners’ Businesses, Strengthen Communities
Since launching BUCKSCO.Today in December, we have carved out an important niche as a vehicle for sharing positive, upbeat stories that affirm why Bucks County is routinely ranked as one of the most desirable places to live in all of America. While we are flattered when someone calls us a “news site” or “online newspaper,”…
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Boston Globe: In a Polarized GOP, State Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick Walks a Tightrope
Despite Democratic attempts to paint him as aligned with QAnon and other right-wing conspiracy theorists, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick has deftly walked a rather thin tightrope, according to Jess Bidgood, Liz Goodwin and Jasmine Illoa of The Boston Globe. Fitzpatrick has carefully distanced himself from his party’s fringes without ever truly seeming to take a stand against…
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Bucks County Housing Market Seeing Bidding Wars amid Low Mortgage Rates and Inventory
Thanks to low mortgage rates and shrinking inventory, Bucks County housing market is seeing bidding wars break out over the too few currently available homes, writes Peg Quann for the Bucks County Courier Times. Megan McCormick and Gerard Mann, who started looking for a new home online last year, really jumped into a scorching hot…
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See How Bucks Restaurants Ranked in the Search for the Ultimate Philly Cheesesteak
Bucks County spots made a list of 60 cheesesteak favorites in the Philadelphia region, writes Jeff Belonger for myphillyalive.com. The list, ranked highest to lowest, is part of a seven-day tour to find the ultimate Philly cheesesteak. The tour covered Philadelphia, the surrounding counties, and parts of New Jersey. Reviewing, and eating their way through 60…
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Bucks County Officials: We Are Not Getting the Amount of Vaccine We Need
While Bucks County has the means to start vaccinating people by the thousands, due to the shortage of the COVID-19 vaccine it will be able to only tackle hundreds of the hundreds of thousands who are waiting for their turn to be vaccinated, according to a Deanna Durante report for NBC10 Philadelphia. “We are not…
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Newtown Nineteen-Year-Old Is Theater’s Newest Rising Star
Mason Olshavsky got his start in acting during his years at Council Rock School District, where he quickly progressed from ensemble to supporting player to lead, writes Cynthia Marone for the Bucks County Magazine. Since then, the nineteen-year-old Villanova University freshman has placed twice in the Top 10 of competitions that were looking to find…
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Buck’s County’s ‘Travel to You’ Tutoring Service Helps Students Excel at Their Own Home
Teacher Time To Go is a “travel to you” tutoring service in Bucks County that helps students excel by providing individualized tutoring, homework help, test prep, enrichment services, and special education supports, as well as executive functioning and organizational skills, according to a staff report from the Bucks County Magazine. Jennifer Shemtob founded the service…
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Upper Bucks County Native Helped Defend Trump in His Second Impeachment Trial
Attorney Julieanne Bateman, an Upper Bucks County native, was part of former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial defense team, writes Tom Sofield for the Saucon Source. Bateman, who is also the daughter of Bucks County President Judge Wallace Bateman, has a background in criminal law and the child welfare system in Bucks County, as well…
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Bucks County Ready To Vaccinate ‘Everybody Right Now’ If There Were COVID-19 Vaccines Available
Bucks County is ready to vaccinate as many as 15,000 people each week under its new $14 million plan but there is one issue putting a break on the county’s ambitious plan: the lack of COVID-19 vaccine, writes Greg Vellner for The Reporter Online. The plan calls for six clinics and two mobile units to…
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Shop, Stay, Dine: Celebrate Valentine’s Weekend in Bucks County
Valentines’ Day will be upon us soon, and what better place to go than a little corner of Pennsylvania for romance! Head to Bucks County, where you’ll find a while host of places to stay, with some of the best inns and bed & breakfast in the state. Looking for absolute luxury and seclusion? Check out…
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Bucks County Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick Cosponsors Protection Bill for Arctic National Refuge
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, a Bucks County Republican, is co-sponsoring a bill to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that former President Donald Trump wanted to open for drilling, write Frank Kummer and Jonathan Tamari for The Philadelphia Inquirer. During his last day in the office, the Trump administration formally issued leases for oil and gas…
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Legendary Bucks County Vaccinologist Talks Challenges of Getting the Vaccine He Helped Create
Stanley Plotkin, the 88-year-old legendary vaccinologist who lives in nearby Bucks County, did not expect to run into as many issues as he encountered while trying to receive the COVID-19 vaccine he helped develop, writes Eli Saslow for The Washington Post. “I’ve been so focused on helping to develop these vaccines that I barely thought…
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