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buckscountyherald.com
The Doylestown Rugby Academy high school girls team went 3-0 at the Gonzaga Rugby Classic 2025 in Aldie, Virginia.
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buckscountyherald.com | Chris Ruvo
Upper Makefield officials are considering pursuing up to $1 million in grant funding to assist in paying for a potential project aimed at helping to mitigate some flooding in the township, while satisfying an unfunded mandate that requires the municipality to reduce stormwater pollution.
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buckscountyherald.com | John Anastasi
A Warminster man is facing charges that he used a township hotel room located fewer than 500 feet from a day care center to package and prepare cocaine for resale. The scheme allegedly unraveled when Eric Daniel Lucier, 39, didn't pay his bill or move out, prompting staff to clean out the room to be rerented while he wasn't there. It was then, police said, that the staff found a white powdery substance roughly the size of a golf ball and called the cops.
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buckscountyherald.com | Jeff Moeller
Owin Brunner thought it was a bad dream. Unfortunately, it proved to be a dose of stark reality – and the biggest challenge he’s ever faced. In mid-February last year, Brunner was diagnosed with T-ALL, or better known as T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. It is an aggressive blood cancer that affects T-cell development. T-cells are white blood cells made in the bone marrow, and they help the body fight off infections.
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buckscountyherald.com | Bridget Wingert
Slavery in Pennsylvania was accepted as normal in 1682. Even the benevolent founder, William Penn, owned slaves. But the Quaker conscience took hold in Pennsylvania and by 1776, the Society of Friends banned its members from holding slaves. Bucks County, with its strong Quaker population, was a leader in America’s anti-slavery movement, which ended officially in 1863, with President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation – 200 years from Penn’s arrival on the Welcome.
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buckscountyherald.com | Melinda Rizzo
Who doesn’t love the warm embrace of a comfy chair? From reading to lounging, entertaining or watching TV those chairs, ottomans, side tables and other accessory furnishings elevate a room. Style, item type, color and contrast are key starting places for selecting furniture home accessories, according to Phillip Greenburg, owner and principal designer for Paramount Home Interiors in Lahaska’s Peddlers Village. Take a seatIdentifying the use and location for a new purchase should be the first step.
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buckscountyherald.com | Freda Savana
The Central Bucks School District plans to elevate one of its elementary school principals to Assistant Superintendent for Elementary Education, following the retirement of Nadine Garvin, who will be leaving at the end of May. In a “community message,” district superintendent Steven Yanni said Tuesday, he’ll recommend the school board approve Helen Sclama Zaleski for the position at its April 24 meeting. Zaleski is the principal at Titus Elementary in Warrington.
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buckscountyherald.com | Lauren O'Neill
The Walmart Supercenter in the Valley Gate shopping center in Warrington has submitted a variance request for a 4,967-square-foot addition to the existing store to create a designated area for online pickup and delivery services. The existing parking area would be relocated to sit adjacent to the new addition, near the garden center facing Route 611. Currently, township regulations require a minimum of 741 parking spaces. Walmart already operates at a 94-space deficit with only 647 spots available.
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buckscountyherald.com | Freda Savana
Brent Celek was part of the Super Bowl-winning Philadelphia Eagles in 2018. The former tight end is now the owner of Chalfont Village Shopping Center. Earlier this year, Celek bought the 12-space center that, despite its name, actually sits along Butler Avenue (Route 202) in New Britain Township. According to property records, the $4.7 million sale closed Feb. 28. Built in 1989, it has approximately 46,000 square feet of space, much of which is currently empty.
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buckscountyherald.com | Chris Ruvo
April showers have spelled trouble for the township administration building in Wrightstown, but officials are taking steps to rectify things. At a recent meeting, the three-person board of supervisors that locally governs the township approved emergency repairs to the administration building’s roof, which has sprung a number of leaks that have allowed water to accumulate in lighting fixtures and ceiling tiles and then fall through to an employee’s desk and into the lobby area.