Falls Township
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Only Two Bucks County School Districts Enrolled to Receive Pa.’s Free COVID-19 Tests
Despite low child vaccination rates and spikes in the number of coronavirus infections, schools around Pennsylvania have been slow to take advantage of the state’s free COVID-19 tests. Here in Bucks County, only two are participating, writes Jamie Martines for The Philadelphia Inquirer. As of Feb. 16, only 750 out of the more than 5,000…
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Falls Township Couple Is Floating on Air With Pandemic-Inspired Inflatable Amusement Business
Needing a break from providing home care to her father, Megan Wachter sought something fun in her life. She and her husband bounced several ideas around before launching an inflatable amusements business. Their story, supplied by SCORE, the Bucks County entrepreneurial mentoring service, blew into the Lower Bucks Times. The idea of turning Megan’s yearning…
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Flushed with Anticipation, Aqua Pennsylvania Acquires Lower Makefield Sewer System
Aqua Pennsylvania has acquired the sewer system of Lower Makefield Township, along with its 11,000 wastewater customers. Andrew Maykuth got a handle on the deal’s particulars for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission unanimously approved the deal, which reportedly set Aqua back $53 million dollars. The 11,151 commercial and residential customers along the…
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Wind Turbine Manufacturer Gamesea, Blown Away in the 2009 Great Recession, Finally Sheds Former Site
A commercial real estate plot in Falls Township, which once held the promise of wind technology as a green energy source, has sold. Natalie Kostelni, for the Philadelphia Business Journal, covered the history of the property and the arc of its tenant, Gamesea Corp. Last week’s $19.2 million purchase of the plot turned 93 acres…
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Pennsbury School District Censorship Ruling May Ripple Through Other Districts as Well
The fallout of the federal court order against Pennsbury School District may have implications for neighboring educational systems, and perhaps further than that. Maddie Hanna addressed the development for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The order came from U.S. District Judge Gene Pratter, responding to an Oct. 1 suit filed by four residents in the Pennsbury School…
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Falls Township Police Corporal Steve Langan Bids Farewell to His Long-Term Canine Partner
After Corporal Steve Langan met Tag — the dog who would become his 11-year partner — in April 2008, the two became virtually inseparable. The K-9 officer and the then three-year-old Belgian Malinois lived, worked, and even vacationed together. Tag ingratiated himself not only to Corporal Langan’s fellow officers and his family, but also to…
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Thousands of New Jobs and Millions of Square Feet of Industry Set to Revive Former U.S. Steel Site
By this summer, construction should be well underway to transform U.S. Steel’s Falls Township site from a vestige of the area’s grim industrial past to a harbinger of economic resurrection, reports Bucks Local News. Rising from the former hulks of steel-producing machinery will be the first 1 million square feet of large-scale warehouse space on the eastern side of River Road, south of Biles…
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Falls Township Wawa May be at the Forefront of a Complete Overhaul of Traditional Convenience Stores
COVID-19 has caused Bucks County residents to rethink everything from car purchases to weddings. It may now redefine how we get our grab-and-go morning coffee and Tastykakes, writes Ashley Gurbal Kritzer for the Philadelphia Business Journal. The Falls Township Wawa is the first in Pennsylvania to offer drive-through service. Its grand opening makes it the second in the market to serve up sandwiches, beverages,…
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Amazon Warehouse Project in Falls Township ‘Not Happening’
An Amazon warehouse at the former Strick Trailer property in Falls Township is “not happening,” according to Bill Koelewyn, general manager of 225 Lincoln Properties, the company that owns the site, writes Chris English for the Bucks County Courier Times. However he confirmed that a preliminary sketch plan was sent to township officials. There were…
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