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Central Bucks District loses out on property tax assessment boost
A missed deadline and a computer glitch means it could be 2013 before the Central Bucks School District gets additional revenue from prop
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13 years ago
Waterfront Corporation plans to work with women- and minority-owned businesses
The Delaware River Waterfront Corporation has plans to spend about 25 to 30 percent of its discretionary budget working with women- and m
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13 years ago
Drawing on voter input for new Philadelphia Council district map
Philadelphia City Council must approve a redrawing of the city’s election map by Sept. 9. There’s incentive to meet the deadl
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13 years ago
West Philly bar celebrating National Watermelon Day
Since you were planning to spend the day spitting watermelon seeds anyway, why not do so in a more official way?
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13 years ago
Delaware priest indicted on charges he stole $300,000 from parishioner
A Delaware priest faces charges in a New Castle County indictment alleging that he stole more than $300,000 from a parishioner.
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13 years ago
District: students can request to be kept from blogging teacher’s class
About 60 Central Bucks East students have already requested to be kept out of Natalie Munroe’s classes, and the district expects mo
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13 years ago
District proposes scaling back Promise Academies
This morning’s special meeting of the School Reform Commission has proven anything but uneventful.
NewsWorks/Notebook
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13 years ago
Upper Moreland is Pennsylvania’s first Bird Town
A group of Upper Moreland residents has taken the first steps in making the township a native bird habitat.
Using the
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13 years ago
Wildwood’s tram car voice will welcome the Globetrotters
“Watch the Globetrotters, please.”
That ought to get a lot of heads turning on the Wildwood Boardwalk when the infamou
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13 years ago
Free at last! Our long national nightmare is over, the debt ceiling is newly raised, and the ideological buffoons who ginned up the self-
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13 years ago
Group says Pennsylvania lawmakers using legislation written by lobbyists
The American Legislative Exchange Council has been writing legislation that Pennsylvania legislators have been passing off as their own w
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13 years ago
Riverfront residents do all they can to prevent flooding
After floods this winter and spring, some New Jersey towns turned to FEMA relief to help them recover.
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13 years ago
Camden agrees to county police department concept
While Camden City Council was discussing plans for a business curfew yesterday, the city, county and state reached an agreement to form a
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13 years ago
Delaware enacts DUI reforms including stiffer penalties and more treatment alternatives
Tougher penalties and avenues for treatment are part of a package of DUI laws enacted by Delaware Governor Jack Markell.
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13 years ago