NEWS
May 15, 2012 | By Bill Reed, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Who would want a 25-foot cell pole fronting their yard? Not Ed Bendzlowicz, Beth-Ann Wolfson, Janet Swenson, or several other Bucks County residents who are surprised and shocked that the black metal poles are about to be erected along their plush, green lawns. They are demanding answers and warning unsuspecting homeowners that they could be next. Not just in Northampton Township, but around the Philadelphia area and across the state. "This should concern everyone in Pennsylvania," says Bendzlowicz, one of the leaders of hundreds of Northampton residents opposing the poles.
NEWS
May 13, 2012 | By Michael Klein, PHILLY.COM
The Bucks County street was choked with cars and a TV news van Friday. Police cordoned off the end of the block. But inside the colonial on the cul de sac in Feasterville, it was just another calm morning for Stacey and Brendan Carey and their 11-month-old sextuplets and 2-year-old daughter. Bam went the front door. Brendan Carey asked Stacey to get it. Emeril Lagasse stood there in a white chef's coat. Behind him was a camera crew from ABC's Good Morning America, along with Warminster's William Tennent High marching band, neighbors, and friends.
NEWS
May 11, 2012 | By Peter Mucha, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
A man suspected of making three pipe bombs was arrested Thursday in Bucks County. John Grzyminski, 50, was taken into custody after a Solebury Township police officer spotted his black pickup truck. Grzyminski was charged with multiple counts of risking catastrophe and unlawful possession or manufacture of weapons of mass destruction, and other offenses. Wednesday afternoon, his mother called authorities after finding a pipe bomb in the kitchen of her home in the 1800 block of Saddle Drive in Warrington.
NEWS
May 11, 2012 | By David Gambacorta & MICHAEL HINKELMAN, Daily News Staff Writers
JOHN GRZYMINSKI's life has gone from bad to worse. Clad in a yellow prison jumpsuit, the 50-year-old appeared before a federal magistrate Friday, after being charged with knowingly possessing unauthorized destructive devices, just a few days after cops found three pipe bombs in his Warrington home. The magistrate ordered him to remain behind bars until a hearing Tuesday to determine if should be eligible for bail. According to a criminal complaint filed Thursday in the eastern district of Pennsylvania, Grzyminski allegedly argued with his mother, Catherine Wilson, and his brother, Michael Grzyminski, when Wilson returned home Wednesday from a hospital stay for surgery.
NEWS
May 3, 2012 | By Bill Reed, Inquirer Staff Writer
Since 1943, Joyce Block says, she has voted in every election - even the two times she left hospital beds to get to the polls. "That's how important it was for me to vote," the 89-year-old Doylestown Township woman says. And that's why she called the ACLU a few weeks ago to join the civil liberties group's fight against Pennsylvania's new law requiring voters to produce photo identification. Block is one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed Tuesday. She says she also raised a "ruckus" at the state Department of Transportation office in Dublin until she got her temporary photo ID, with a little help from State Sen. Chuck McIlhenny (R., Bucks)
NEWS
May 2, 2012 | By Bill Reed, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Down-on-their-luck residents of Tent City, a homeless enclave in a wooded area in Bristol Borough, have next to nothing — a few tarps, blankets, and clothes. Some have a heater to warm their shelter and a chair to sit outside. There's no electricity, no running water. By Monday, they'll need to pack up their meager belongings and find another place to call home. Their refuge is about to be leveled for a warehouse. "I have nowhere else to go," 46-year-old John Haacke said Monday as eviction loomed.
NEWS
April 23, 2012 | By Bill Reed, Inquirer Staff Writer
The outcry over the state's new voter-ID bill is not limited to the big cities. It has been dominating the public comment at Bucks County Board of Commissioners meetings, and it escalated last week when Det Ansinn, the Borough Council president in Doylestown, told of taking his wife's 91-year-old grandmother to a PennDot office, looking for a photo ID so she could keep her 70-year voting record intact. Joyce Block of Doylestown Township is such a dedicated voter that Ansinn took her from the hospital in a wheelchair to vote in 2010 because she couldn't get an absentee ballot.
NEWS
April 6, 2012 | By Bill Reed, Inquirer Staff Writer
Members of the Perkasie Borough Council violated the state Sunshine Act last month because of "an innocent mistake," a Bucks County grand jury concluded in a report released Thursday. The elected officials will not be held liable for the violation because they had been advised incorrectly by Borough Manager Daniel Olpere and Solicitor Nathan Fox, county District Attorney David Heckler said. "This was nothing but an innocent mistake," Heckler said, although "the solicitor and a manager as experienced as Mr. Olpere should have known better," Only elected officials can be penalized for violations, with fines of $100 to $1,000 per person for a first offense, Heckler said at a news conference in his Doylestown office.
NEWS
April 2, 2012 | By Dan Hardy, Inquirer Staff Writer
In a cozy corner of a third-grade classroom at Holland Elementary School in Bucks County's Council Rock School District, 9-year-old Conner Weinberg confidently read to a companion, glancing up once in a while for approval. In return, his listener offered a soulful gaze and, occasionally, a slight wag of a tail. Which is about what you can expect when your audience is a 140-pound Rhodesian ridgeback named Kicho. "Sometimes, I get jittery inside when I read [aloud], but not with Kicho," Conner said.
NEWS
March 27, 2012
Mary Ann DeSantis Kulka, 77, a former public elementary school teacher in Bucks County, died of heart failure Friday, March 23, at her home in Barnegat, N.J. Born in Philadelphia, Mrs. Kulka graduated from Little Flower High School in 1952 and after years of evening classes earned her a bachelor's in 1958 at what is now St. Joseph's University, her husband, John, said in a interview Monday. She was among the first women to graduate from St. Joseph's, became editor of The Nighthawk, the evening school's newsletter, and played on the women's basketball team, he said.