Quakertown News

The Quakertown School District is looking to increase the rigor of its academic programs and next year will offer more cyber courses and a new engineering class.

Marian C. Healey , 76 of Ambler, died Saturday, February 4, 2012 in the Abington Memorial Hospital.

A 16-year-old was arrested Saturday after stealing a container of $219 from a Girl Scout cookie sale held outside a Walmart store that day.

A 43-year-old Northampton man was killed and three other people were seriously injured when the man drove off Route 212 in Springfield Township early Saturday morning and struck a telephone pole and two trees, police said.

Authorities in suburban Philadelphia say a man killed his estranged wife and her boyfriend in an early-morning ambush at their apartment building.

Last year, during contract negotiations, the Quakertown School support staff union agreed to work with the administration to find ways to save the district money.

A group of student volunteers from United Friends School in Quakertown used their day off from school on January 16, Martin Luther King Jr.

A Health officials in Bucks County say eight students in the QuakertownA Community School District have been diagnosed with whooping cough as of Thursday.

"People think we're closing," Linda Fox said with a laugh. "Why would you do that? Why would we count down the days to our closing?" The numbers in the storefront of Sine's 5 & 10, which Fox's parents own, are marking the countdown to the Quakertown store's 100th anniversary.

The borough had employed Ann Thornburg Weiss, of Timoney Knox in Fort Washington, for about eight years, but council members decided they wanted to look for a solicitor a little closer to home.