Skippack News

A 26-year-old Quakertown woman was killed Christmas Day when her car crossed the center line on Route 29 in Lower Frederick Township in Montgomery County, striking another vehicle head-on, police said.

The canal walk project is set to begin early in 2010. A federal grant will pay for the job.

Lori Levite Whitman of Skippack, Pa., and Stan Whitman of Holland, Pa., announce the engagement of their daughter, Stacey Sarah Whitman, to Daniel Jacob Gerstenblith, son of Miriam and Jay Gerstenblith of Pikesville, Md.

PennDOT awarded two recovery contracts totaling nearly $2.5 million this week that will make it easier to get around on foot in New Hope, Bucks County, and Tredyffrin, Chester County.

A Chester County township will get $1,947,725 worth of new sidewalks, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announced yesterday in a news release.

Montgomery County emergency dispatchers directed police units, firefighters and emergency medical responders within the past 24 hours to a variety of incidents.

Ralph Miller is deep in debt, a victim, he says, of the ravaged economy. After making just one mortgage payment in over a year, the owner of the iconic Bucks County Playhouse was facing a sheriff's sale of the property at 70 S. Main St.

Reported by Haines and Kibblehouse Inc. of Skippack, Montgomery County; tools taken from unlocked vehicle: pipe laser, ground tamper, concrete saw, auto level and transit tripod; taken between 9:30 p.m. Saturday and 6 a.m. Sunday; call state police at Bethlehem with information, 610-861-2026.

Gay Davidson, who is selling TH Properties, in front of a few of the homes in Cliffside Manor in Bedminster.

The head of Montgomery County's public library system is using a red pen to slash away at next year's budget in the wake of decreased state funding.

The autumn leaves may still be on the trees, but with this weekend's exhibit at Living Light Gallery, it will be a White Christmas, with snowy woods and haunting winter tree branches.

Y Safehouse, Halloween Events This Weekend More than a dozen local events and activities, from fall festivals at Pottsgrove elementary schools to a Halloween horse show in Skippack, are among things to do in celebration of the spooky season.

Expect drunk driving checkpoints operated by the Pennsylvania State Police from Troop K barracks in Skippack PA , and across the state, to continue for the next 12 months.

Work started Monday on a $3.1 million reconstruction of the Fifth Street Highway in Muhlenberg Township.

Montgomery County voters can invite the county's 14 judicial candidates into their homes.And, they do not have to worry about feeding them or serving them something to drink.The Montgomery Bar Association, in a unique partnership with the county community college, has taped three-minute interviews with each of the 14 candidates.Voters with access ...

We moved from Central Bucks to Upper Gwynedd about a year ago. We've been exploring in the Blue Bell, Plymouth Meeting, East Norriton, and North Wales areas.

A Pottstown area construction and real estate development company that proposes to build a massive housing and recreation complex in the borough of Cornwall PA, south of Lebanon , has issued a study which says its plans could ultimately bring $1.88 million in tax revenue to Cornwall and its accompanying school district.

A fiscal-impact study of the proposed $250 million, 570-acre hotel and water park in Cornwall indicates the project could produce an estimated $1.88 million annually in tax revenue for the borough and Cornwall-Lebanon School District over time.

PA Songbirds , a day-long course about Pennsylvania songbirds intended primarily for teachers but also open to the public, will be held Oct.

Share + Sep 1, 2009 11:39 pm US/Eastern UPPER GWYNEDD TWP., Pa. Investigators in two Pennsylvania counties are searching for a bandit couple that has targeted approximately 60 cars.