After a year’s worth of odor and runoff complaints from a local slaughterhouse’s neighbors, Plumstead Township, the County of Bucks and Heritage Conservancy are suing to compel Kingdom Provisions LLC to clean up an operation they claim is violating numerous regulations.
Slate Hill Burial Ground in Lower Makefield is said to be the oldest cemetery in Bucks County, with interments dating to the 1690s. The oldest tombstone has 1698 inscribed on it and the last internment occurred in 1918.
Norval Reece, who worked with Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy during the 1960s on civil rights and anti-Vietnam marches and campaigns, will speak on “Why Activism in the …
Mary Sheridan Park in Lambertville is diminutive in size but rich in items of historic interest, from its 1840s vintage city jail, to its 1870 Civil War monument, to its often-overlooked Civil War naval cannon.
Last Thursday evening Doylestown Composite Squadron 907 of Pennsylvania Civil Air Patrol held its annual holiday party at Albert Atkinson Post 210 of the American Legion located at 315 North St. in …
Only three days after war broke out between the states in April 1861, the Doylestown Guards, under the command of Captain William W.H. Davis, answered President Lincoln’s …
Learn about Afro Brazilian culture and civil rights at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 17, in the Gallagher Room in the Rollins Center building on the Newtown Campus of Bucks County Community College, 275 …
A documentary that revisits the tumultuous and chaotic year of 1983—when hundreds of protesters were arrested in the tiny Bucks County village of Point Pleasant—will premiere at 1 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 17, at the County Theater, 20 E. State St., Doylestown.
In a new complaint, the Pennsylvania ACLU is accusing the Central Bucks School District administration and its retained lawyers of “misleading the public” in a 151-page report that refuted the ACLU’s earlier findings of a “widespread culture of discrimination” against LGBTQ students.
A federal court in Pennsylvania has found the general manager of a Quakertown Hampton Inn in civil contempt for violating a February consent judgment, the U.S. Department of Labor said Wednesday.
The National Park Service recently awarded $61,995 to the Friends of Washington Crossing Park as part of the Historic Preservation Fund’s African American Civil Rights grant program.
The National Park Service recently awarded $61,995 to the Friends of Washington Crossing Park as part of the Historic Preservation Fund’s African American Civil Rights grant program.This program …
Since our beginning in 1953, Historic Fallsington Inc. has been the depository of thousands of objects and archival records. They all help tell the narrative of Fallsington’s past and the people that helped create this village and how they lived.
Yardley officials are denying allegations of discrimination on the part of the borough's civil service commission and others in the government.In a recent "open letter to Yardley Borough Council," …
Yardley officials are denying allegations of discrimination on the part of the borough’s civil service commission and others in the government.In a recent “open letter to Yardley Borough …
On Saturday, June 3, the Titusville Presbyterian Church presents Civil War era artists Libby Prison Minstrels for a two-hour musical concert from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.Libby Prison Minstrels offer history …
After a months-long investigation, a law firm hired by the Central Bucks School District found no evidence of systemic mistreatment of LGBTQ+ students and a responsive staff should bullying occur.The …
As a former president of the board of CB Cares Educational Foundation, I strongly support the Central Bucks School District Superintendent’s Call for Civility. I have been a victim of the …
Black History Month is intended as a time “to make all Americans aware of [the] struggle for freedom and equal opportunity.” But today, few people may know about the experiences of a Pennridge …
