• Toll Brothers Secures 86-Acre Stone Meadows Farm in Langhorne for $40.5 Million for Senior Living Community

    Toll Brothers Secures 86-Acre Stone Meadows Farm in Langhorne for $40.5 Million for Senior Living Community

    Toll Brothers has acquired an 86-acre parcel of land in Langhorne, for $40.5 million, eyeing the development of a 55-plus community at the former Stone Meadows Farm, writes Paul Schwedelson for the Philadelphia Business Journal.   Toll Brothers aims to cater to the active adult segment under its Regency Collection, although the exact number of…

  • Malvern Hospitality Company to Acquire Sheraton Bucks County Langhorne

    Malvern Hospitality Company to Acquire Sheraton Bucks County Langhorne

    ANZ Hospitality, a Malvern hospitality company, has agreed to buy the 186-key Sheraton Bucks County Langhorne and plans to invest millions of dollars into its renovation, writes Emma Dooling for the Philadelphia Business Journal. The sale is expected to close at the end of this month or early November, according to ANZ Hospitality founder and…

  • Husky Who Stopped Traffic on I-95 Brought Back Safely to Bucks County Pet Center

    Husky Who Stopped Traffic on I-95 Brought Back Safely to Bucks County Pet Center

    A young Husky called Enzo, the four-legged escape artist who stopped traffic at rush hour on I-95 on Friday, had to be rescued once again and brought back to a Bucks County pet center after he took off on Sunday, writes Liam Price for the Philly Burbs. The pup first made the news when the…

  • Bucks County Mall to Open Two New Stores This Fall. Read to Learn When, Where, and What

    Bucks County Mall to Open Two New Stores This Fall. Read to Learn When, Where, and What

    A popular mall in Bucks County is preparing to open two new stores as they continue to update their decades-old building. Peg Quann wrote about the new store for the Bucks County Courier Times. The Oxford Valley Mall, located at 2300 East Lincoln Highway in Langhorne, has announced a new store and a restaurant to be added…

  • Bucks County Hotel, in Operation for Over 300 Years, Hits the Market

    Bucks County Hotel, in Operation for Over 300 Years, Hits the Market

    One of nearby Bucks County’s most well-known hotels has hit the market, and sellers are asking a hefty price for the old estate. JD Mullane wrote about the estate for Yahoo! Sports. The Langhorne Hotel, one of the oldest continuously operated inns in Bucks County, has hit the market for $2.5 million, This historic inn…

  • Pennsylvania Game Commission Warns Residents of a Unique Visitor to the Area

    Pennsylvania Game Commission Warns Residents of a Unique Visitor to the Area

    Chester County is no stranger to rare animal sightings, and neither is nearby Bucks County as a one-year anniversary approaches of a coyotes being spotted in the area. Authorities are warning residents to remain diligent. Gregory Vellner wrote about the local animals for NewsBreak. The Pennsylvania Game Commission has sent out a reminder of last…

  • These Local Drive-Through Holiday Light Displays Are Electrifying

    These Local Drive-Through Holiday Light Displays Are Electrifying

    Although strolling by your neighbor’s holiday lawn décor is a nice way to spend an evening, sometimes you need a professional for something first class. To kick the bulb-and-extension-cord experience up a major notch, get behind the wheel of the car, fill the backseat with neighbors or friends, crank up the holiday tunes, and make…

  • Local Grade School Teacher, Former Sesame Place Dancer Moonlights as Eagles Cheerleader

    Local Grade School Teacher, Former Sesame Place Dancer Moonlights as Eagles Cheerleader

    When the staff of Maple Point Middle School in Langhorne returned Monday morning and described their weekends, most of it was predictable. When instructional assistant James LeGette explained what he did Sunday, it was extraordinary. Rashad Grove covered this male Eagles cheerleader for Billy Penn. LeGette spent Sunday at Lincoln Financial Field. He wasn’t in…

  • Historic Organ Donation Enables Bucks County Mother of Two to Help Montana Woman Become the Mother of One

    Historic Organ Donation Enables Bucks County Mother of Two to Help Montana Woman Become the Mother of One

    Cheryl Cichonski-Urban, of Langhorne, gave a priceless gift — her own uterus — to Chelsea Jovanovich. The historic organ donation was Penn Medicine’s first living-donor uterus transplant. But it also drew two women together in maternally grounded friendship, as Sarah Gantz reported for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Cichonski-Urban saw television coverage of Penn Medicine’s uterine transplant…

  • College in Bucks County Shuts Down Its Social Work Program Over Disagreement on Values

    College in Bucks County Shuts Down Its Social Work Program Over Disagreement on Values

    Cairn University in Langhorne halted its social work courses, citing a disconnect between its religious underpinnings and the values of its accreditation agency. Claudia Lauer of The Associated Press covered the contention in The Allentown Morning Call.  The school’s board of trustees claimed that funding and enrollment shortfalls primarily caused the change. The accreditation issue was only tangentially related, according…

  • Ancestral Roots: Local Woman Preps Site for a Tree, Replacing One Her Grandfather Grew Decades Ago

    Ancestral Roots: Local Woman Preps Site for a Tree, Replacing One Her Grandfather Grew Decades Ago

    Barbara “Bluejay” Michalski, a Native American storyteller from Langhorne, paid homage to both her biological grandfather and her spiritual Earth Mother, according to the Bucks County Herald.  She lovingly prepared the soil by the Aquetong Spring for the planting of an Eastern red cedar. As it grows, it will replace a decayed cedar originally tucked into the ground by her grandfather, Chief Whippoorwill (Bill Thompson), 30 years ago.  Cedar and sugar maple trees were special additions…