Skippack News

Skippack's John DelVecchio, who lived in a flaming-red 2009 Ford Mustang for 11 days, will have to wait a bit before taking delivery of the car he won.

The budget cut ax is in full swing in Harrisburg, leaving area parks on edge. As the proposed $29 billion state budget stands, Ralph Stover Park in Tinicum and the Upper Black Eddy stretch of the 60-mile-long Delaware Canal State Park and Evansburg State Park near Skippack, Montgomery County, are among 35 state-funded parks on the chopping block.

Brandon Gilbert would have turned 22 years old today. He never got the chance. The Souderton man was killed Monday night in a motorcycle accident in Upper Salford, according to the Montgomery County Coroner's Office.

TH Properties has resumed work at three of its nearly completed Montgomery County housing developments that were abandoned after the company's abrupt April shutdown, signaling some progress in its federal bankruptcy case.

Rep. Matthew D. Bradford is a freshman Democrat who represents the 70th House District in Montgomery County.

The Elizabethtown Area Water Authority wants to sell 124 acres of land located within the former Sheridan Corp.

Developers of the Preserve at Historic Cornwall Village have listened to borough residents' concerns and have revised the project.

A routine traffic update on the radio at mid-morning yesterday carried the first hint that federal stimulus money for road work had finally arrived in the Philadelphia region.

One of the things I love about spring is the opportunity, after the long hiatus of Winter, to drive out to the countryside - sunroof open, windows down - on a warm, sunny Sunday morning and enjoy brunch al fresco.

A robber pulled a gun on tellers at the Wachovia Bank in Upper Hanover Township this morning, collected money from their drawers and fled, police said.

Kincaid's award will be presented during the association's annual spring luncheon at Justin's Carriage House Restaurant in Skippack PA , from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The association annually selects counselors from public and private schools, and county counseling agencies, as award recipients.

I wrote about three closings yesterday. Now for word of six openings over the next week.

Pick up and move on. That's the attitude owners of homes in TH Properties' developments are beginning to express, if not in so many words, as they meet and plan for a future with or without their communities' builder.

State corrections officials announced yesterday that they had picked names for the two prison buildings that will be built on the grounds of Graterford Prison in Montgomery County.

The state Department of Corrections has announced the names for two new state prisons to be built in Montgomery County.

Groundbreaking is months away, but the state has names for two new state prisons.

An upscale Montgomery County builder has suspended all construction activity in the region because of financial troubles.

Paul Callahan walked near Boyd and Gold streets. Here, he told the group, is where a proposed bypass will be.

The North Annville Township Board of Supervisors last night decided to participate in a study to determine the feasibility of a regional police force.

Megan Garvey and Jim Mooney scoured just about every block of Northeast Philadelphia last summer and fall before finding what she calls "the perfect house." By the time they settled on a $223,000 detached home in Fox Chase on Dec.