Since elementary school I dreamed of building robots. They were cool, but I also wanted to use them to get out of doing my chores. I went to MIT, winning third place in the 6.270 robotics competition …
Over the last couple of weeks, you may have heard news about the Pennsylvania Award for Student Success program, or PASS. You may have also heard that this program, aimed at giving children in …
Anthony Kulish turned 100 last week.He’s an artist living in a house among the trees along the Paunnacussing Creek, next to the farm where he grew up. He attended the Solebury Township one-room …
At 16 N. Franklin St. (between West State and Wood streets) in Doylestown, a wagon spoke factory burned to the ground in 1901. It is unclear when the property was …
Dad taught me how to search forripe blueberries, how to tickle the stemsand gently strip branches cleanwithout bruising the fruit. Back then, giggling, we’d pop a fewin our mouths, and I’d roll …
I remember asking, when I was a kid, why children didn’t have a “Day” like Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. The adults usually said something like, “… because every day is kids’ day” …
A letter in the June 1 issue (“Don’t tie paying our debts to controlling future spending”) tries to argue that our government has no alternative but to continue to spend ever more than the …
I may have a friend who may want to open a website design business one day. But he has a strange “religion.”His “religion” tells him that LGBTQ+ people are evil and should be shunned. Ditto …
For the past 3+ years, we have tended to my mother’s resting spot in St. Isidore’s Catholic Church Cemetery (in Milford Township). It is lovingly known to us as “Mary’s Meadow.”
I’m sad that you have turned Pennridge into your fiefdom.You have created and made changes to policies like the bathroom, advocacy, and other controversial issues. You have crafted a library policy …
In early August, the privately owned Perkasie Park National Historic District will hold one of Bucks County’s most unique historic events. Its Founders’ Day open house allows visitors to stroll …
The previous League of Women Voters article in the Bucks County Herald (published June 15) addressed the issue of whether the Pennsylvania primary elections should remain closed or should be opened. …
Author, attorney and inspirational speaker Iyanla Vanzant writes, “It is important that we share our experiences with other people. Your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else. …
Part of putting our opinions on paper is committing to being quotable and dissectible, whether by supporters or cynics. Today, we’re on a limb about young Americans’ futures. Raising children has …
The Shelly One-Room-School is an island in time, untouched by the traffic that roars by on Route 212 as it passes through Richland Township. It is filled with memorabilia and, perhaps more telling, …
Your kitchen, in grey hesitant light— coffee, French bread, goat cheese served on blue unmatched china.Breakfast is simple as always. We eat quietly.The hiss of the espresso potintersects careful …
Running behind the Doylestown Inn and adjacent buildings was an alley named Oyster Shell Lane, so called because surrounding restaurants threw oyster shells there in bad weather to …
In response to the (April 20) Chatterbox column on the Oregon Trail, the tradition of hope and new beginnings embodied in the Oregon Trail is a chapter of the American Dream. Our Bucks County …
We all have a sense of inferiority, but we respond to it in different ways. Some of us try to be as good as we can to prove to everyone, and ourselves, that we aren’t inferior. Some of us, instead, …
Brian Fitzpatrick owes his constituents an explanation on a great deal of issues aside from his disingenuous promises on gun control. Not to understate his deceitful record on the topic, but taken as …
