• Vintage Irving Cliff Brewery Bottles May Further Bucks County Representative’s Recycling Goals

    Vintage Irving Cliff Brewery Bottles May Further Bucks County Representative’s Recycling Goals

    An antiques collector from Wayne County, 33 miles northeast of Scranton, happened on an Irving Cliff Brewery crate containing empty beer bottles from 1913. He decided to return them for their deposit. The payment from the brewer was a minor windfall. But it highlighted an evolving effort, including from a local champion, to revive bottle…

  • ‘America’s Got Talent’ Vocal Trio, Including Plumstead Tenor Liam Fennecken, Falls Flat in Quarterfinals

    ‘America’s Got Talent’ Vocal Trio, Including Plumstead Tenor Liam Fennecken, Falls Flat in Quarterfinals

    The professional singer career arc of Liam Fennecken, of Plumstead, has returned to earth. His shot at stardom, as part of vocal group T.3, ended in the America’s Got Talent (AGT) quarterfinals. Jason Addy covered the local competitor for the Doylestown Patch. Fennecken and his two fellow vocalists started small. They practiced in the hallway…

  • Bucks County Opportunity Council Improves Lives, Sometimes One Teen at a Time

    Bucks County Opportunity Council Improves Lives, Sometimes One Teen at a Time

    Plumstead Township’s Jacob Newman, 18, had three priorities:  An advanced education  A permanent home  A reliable car  Juggling all three with just a high school diploma and no permanent residence proved understandably difficult — very difficult, reports Chris Ullery for The Philadelphia Inquirer.  Even though his job at a garden center paid more than minimum wage, Newman’s situation was no-win:  Car payments knocked out college tuition and rent  A decent…