Doylestown News

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Doylestown merchants and businesses are gearing up to celebrate Doylestown Wednesday-along with the rest of the region.

Doylestown will be featured on live television from 7 to 10 a.m. as part of the Good Day Philadelphia show's "Celebrate Your Town" series.

Memorial Day is a time to commemorate those who have fallen in service to the United States.

Residents of the Zimmerman Road and Midway Avenue area of Middletown Township were treated to two black bear sightings in the past week.

This week: How much do lawn services cost? How much do you pay for your lawn service? And what does that cover - just mowing, or does it cover weeding, pruning, planting? Please share in the comments below - we promise we won't judge you! And if you've got a lawn service you love, tell us that too.

Wednesday night's Powerball jackpot has climbed to $360 million-the third highest Powerball prize of all time.

For the fifth year in a row, Doylestown area bikers will ride in honor of those who can't join them.

Doylestown will be featured on live television this Wednesday from 7 to 10 a.m. as part of the Good Day Philadelphia show's "Celebrate Your Town" series.

Where/when: Town and Country Players , 4158 York Rd., Buckingham, May 10-11 at 8 p.m. What: Opal Kronkie, a middle-aged recluse, lives in general disarray in her tumbledown mansion at the edge of the municipal dump.

In 1988, Doylestown native and Pulitzer Prize winner James A. Michener lent his name and support to a new art museum.

Police say two men already imprisoned for bilking one Pennsylvania town out of $800,000 in a streetlight scam have done the same thing to another township.

He was a preacher who could hold thousands spellbound...a photographer who captured images of vanishing cultures...an explorer who traveled to the ends of the earth.

If you are a fan of comic books or want to encourage children to read the original form of The Avengers , Spiderman , Batman and more, you'll be happy to hear that Free Comic Book Day is May 4. Free Comic Book Day, created in 2002, always falls on the first Saturday in May.

Former Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Jeremiah Trotter has debuted in his movie, "The North Star," about a runaway slave in Bucks County.

When you have First Friday and Shabbos, it makes sense to combine them. The Old City Jewish Arts Center shows works by photographer Lynn Rae Fenimore, painters Fonda Hartman and Yitzchok Moully, animator Liz Goldberg, printmaker Mordechai Rosenstein, and calligrapher Karen Shain Schloss, then hosts a traditional Shabbos dinner open to all at the ... (more)

Sandra Cimino begged a Wayne County judge on Thursday to see her son as a recovering drug addict who recently enrolled in college, not the naked, blood-streaked maniac who rampaged through Hawley and gnawed on a stranger's head.

Where/when: Busy Bee Toys , 58 E. State St., Doylestown, Friday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. What: Join Christa M. Tinari, creator of the Feel & Deal Activity Deck, to learn some easy and fun ways to foster social and emotional intelligence skills in your children.

California Tortilla is celebrating Cinco de Mayo with online and in-store promotions, including a virtual twist on the traditional piA±ata. Visit the California Tortilla website this Friday, May 3 through Sunday, May 5 for your chance to swing at the virtual piA±ata and hit the jackpot.

Honesdale, Wayne County- A man who accused of biting two women in the face while under the influence of bath salts was sentenced in Wayne County on Thursday.