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Musicians, like painters and writers, are dedicated to a lifelong passion. The Delaware Valley is blessed with towns that promote that dedication.

HISTORY LIVES: Operation ‘64

The Doylestown Plan for Self-Help Renewal. Operation ‘64 resulted from a group of farsighted Doylestown merchants who refused to “modernize” their historic town center.

NICK O’ TIME

Tristan Buttigieg is a singer-songwriter, musician and poet.

Through the “Investing in America” agenda, the Biden-Harris administration is cutting costs for hardworking American families in every corner of the country.

There are getting to be fewer and fewer places to go to for peace and quiet. For example, many libraries are not quiet.

Last week, a family member from New Jersey visited our home for a couple days, during which the most recent Herald was sitting on our coffee table. After reading it, she commented, “That’s a good newspaper!”

I would like to publicly commend Officer Gina Ferzetti and Sergeant Marc Mansour, of the Solebury Township Police Department for their extraordinary assistance to me when my car broke down on River Road/Greenhill Road on Monday July 8.

Reusable bags: Make it a habit

Have you noticed this sign in the windows of Newtown Borough businesses?

Wrightstown Friends Meeting, like many faith communities, has been looking at how we can put our testimony of stewardship for the Earth into action.

Reforming juvenile justice system benefits kids, communities

We are youth advocates who were incarcerated at the ages of 14 and 15. We don’t want the juvenile legal system to do to others what it did to us and our peers.

Separate ideas from identity

Running along Creamery Road in New Hope, I couldn’t help but notice a kaleidoscope of different campaign signs that lined my route: Trump, Biden, Fitzpatrick, Ehasz — all names peculiarly positioned above the election year 2024.

Ah! The political noise and chatter that precede the November elections are already growing to a bothersome level and will only get worse as time goes on.

When I think of searching for missing persons, my mind summons up hikers lost in the mountainous terrain and vast canyons of the American West.

HISTORY LIVES: Fordhook Farm

In 1888, Washington Atlee Burpee (1858-1915) purchased about 100 acres of land outside of Doylestown and named it Fordhook Farm, after his ancestor’s estate in England.

Getting Unstuck

I stood at the edge of the gorge near the abandoned Allegheny coal mine.

People read the Herald for stories they can’t get anywhere else, not for news they can get virtually everywhere else. That’s why you won’t find coverage of the assassination attempt on our news pages this week.

At the recent presidential debate, virtually every question posed to Donald Trump, regardless of topic, resulted in an over-the-top rant about illegal immigration.

The July 11 letter arguing that abortion is not murder because “a human does not come into being until it is independent of that from which it came” is lacking in understanding of logic, law and science.

Send 65 F-16s to Ukraine

I am writing to express my strong support for the United States supplying Ukraine with 65 F-16 fighter jets. As a U.S. Air Force officer veteran, I firmly believe that this strategic move is essential for Ukraine to achieve air superiority over Russian forces, ultimately leading to a cessation of hostilities and the return of imperialist Russian troops in defeat.

The petals of the tulip poplar are strewn across the forest floor, their orange and tawny yellow hues mirroring the stormy sky I glimpse snatches of through openings in the now-full canopy.

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