TOP LOCAL News
By TAPINTO DOYLESTOWN STAFF
October 10, 2025
WARRINGTON TOWNSHIP, PA—Warrington police arrested a woman this week and charged her with assaulting—and threatening to kill—a relative who is confined to a wheelchair.Police were called to a house on Lincoln Circle on Oct. 7 for the report of a domestic disturbance. When they arrived, they were ...
UPPER SOUTHAMPTON TOWNSHIP, PA—A man accused of breaking into an Upper Southampton Township home early on Tuesday morning and restraining a female resident in her bed before fleeing was arrested in Philadelphia on the same day thanks to tracking technology in some of the items he stole.On Oct. 7 a ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Here’s a list of family-friendly Halloween activities around Doylestown for 2025. All events appear in order of date and are free unless otherwise noted.YMCA Boo Bash & Trunk or Treat: Oct. 17, 5:30-7:30 p.m.“Not-spooky” activities for the family include trick-or-treating, ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—A local group will hold a Diwali celebration on Sunday in Doylestown Township’s new community center.Desis of Doylestown will celebrate Diwali on Oct. 12 from 1-4 p.m. in the Community Recreation Center in Central Park. The free event will feature the lighting of an oil-filled lamp ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—A local veterans’ organization is asking the community for a little help with a pre-holiday wreath-laying ceremony at Doylestown Cemetery in December.The Doylestown Post 175 VFW hopes to place about 1,400 wreaths on the graves of veterans buried in the borough’s cemetery on Dec. 13.
DOYLESTOWN, PA—An expert gardener will be coming to Doylestown later this month to give advice and ideas on creating “intentional outdoor spaces.”Dan Bangert, leader of the grounds team at Penn Medicine, will speak on Oct. 23 at the James-Lorah Memorial Home Auditorium. Doors open at 6 for a ...
WARRINGTON TOWNSHIP, PA—A Jamison woman was arrested late last month and charged with assault and strangulation after getting involved in a road rage incident.Warrington police said that on Sept. 26 at about 4 p.m., a driver backing out of a driveway near Neshaminy and Philadelphia avenues ...
WARWICK TOWNSHIP, PA—Police took a man in custody on Monday afternoon following a shelter-in-place order that had residents wondering what was happening.Police set up in the Mill Ridge neighborhood near Ridge Drive and Deborah Court. The intersection is in a housing development off of Mill Road ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Doylestown will kick off its celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States next weekend with a celebration that includes town criers reading the day’s news, a barbershop quartet and a visit from Ben Franklin. The Doylestown Historical Society will hold Doylestown ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—The sidewalks of Doylestown had extra pedestrian traffic on Saturday thanks to a new free festival that put live music on porches across the borough. The borough’s first annual Porchfest featured 14 stages on the porches of homes and businesses. Musical acts that ranged from full ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Two of the three Central Bucks high school football teams won their games this week on Friday night. Here’s a recap of this week’s scores.The CB West Bucks beat Pennsbury 17-7 in a home game on Friday night, giving the team a 5-2 record. The Bucks host Pennridge for a home game on ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Hundreds of people packed the front lawn of the old courthouse in Doylestown on Thursday night for a vigil remembering Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist who was shot and killed on Sept. 10.The vigil part was memorial and part political rally that mixed Christian theology with ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Two Doylestown-area restaurants are calling quits less than two years after opening.Water’s Edge Winery & Bistro, which opened in the spring of 2024 in a newly renovated building at 50 North Main Street, just across the street from the old courthouse, closed last week. The ...
MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP, PA—The five-point intersection where Route 309 meets Route 463/Horsham Road/Cowpath Road and Business U.S. 202/Doylestown Road will close overnight from Sunday, Oct. 5, at 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 6.While the intersection has been a hotbed of construction during ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Two of the last outdoor concerts of 2025 will be held in October, with one a makeup of a September show in Doylestown and the other a first-of-its kind concert in Chalfont.On Oct. 5, Chalfont Borough will host a free show with Barefoot Bobby and the Breakers in Kelly Park from 4-6 ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—CB East High School will be hosting an electronics recycling event on Saturday, Oct. 4, from 10 a.m. to noon.The free event, which is being sponsored by State Rep. Tim Brennan and State Sen. Steve Santarsiero, will accept “most items with a plug,” including small appliances, ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Bucks County will be holding weddings and vow renewals for veterans and first responders next month as part of its Weddings for Heroes program.The “Vows and Veterans” event will be held on Monday, Nov. 10, the day before Veterans Day. The ceremony will go from noon to 2 p.m. on the ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Two Philadelphia men received lengthy sentences in state prison this week for straw purchasing firearms in Bucks County, some of them in the Doylestown area.On Monday, Jawone Shakour Williams, 33, was sentenced to 10-20 years in state prison for straw purchasing 20 firearms. Williams ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—The three Central Bucks high schools fared much higher on a new list ranking the nation’s public high schools than they did in last month’s list from U.S. News & World Report.According to the newest survey by Niche, a website that ranks and profiles schools, Central Bucks East ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Doylestown Fire Company No. 1 is holding a fire expo at Central Park on Saturday, Oct. 4, from 4-8 p.m.The free event will feature live demonstrations and give attendees a chance to try on gear and check out firefighting equipment. Saturday’s event will feature the following:• Live ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Doylestown Porchfest will bring live music to the porches of 14 homes and businesses this weekend for what organizers hope will be an annual event.Porchfest events have been held in nearby towns from Perkasie to Princeton, but this will be the first time one is held in Doylestown.
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Doylestown Hospital had a special kind of graduation ceremony on Sunday morning for children who spent their first days and weeks in the neonatal ICU (NICU) after being born.Most of the children who came to the reunion were young, so the Hubbard Playhouse at Children’s Village, the ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—In week six of high school football, only one of the three Central Bucks teams won. Here’s a recap of the scores from Sept. 26, 2025.The CB West Bucks lost their away game to the Neshaminy Redskins 28-18 on Friday night. The Bucks turned the ball over three times, including on the ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Delaware Valley University will now accept some credits from Northampton Community College, allowing students from Northampton to earn a four-degree in Doylestown.The new partnership means that Delaware Valley University will honor certain core requirements from Northampton, allowing ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Two outdoor concerts will roll into Doylestown this weekend.On Saturday, the season’s last Picnics on Pine show will take place on Pine Street between East Oakland and East Ashland streets. The concerts are a combination block party and picnic that feature food trucks and live ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—The organization that founded Doylestown Hospital just over 100 years ago with the goal of improving health in the Doylestown area has set its sights on a more modern challenge: improving mental health.The Village Improvement Association of Doylestown, or VIA, founded Doylestown ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Three Doylestown-area students were among the winners in a local theater organization’s contest for solo performers.The Oscar Hammerstein Museum and Theatre Education Center’s International Youth Solo Contest attracted contestants from around the country and the world.The goal of the ...
Editor's note: This show has been rescheduled to Oct. 16 with a new lineup because of weather. Check back with TAPinto Doylestown for more details.DOYLESTOWN, PA—Doylestown Borough will host the last show in its Concerts at the Commons music series on Thursday night. This week’s free show at Broad ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—A Central Bucks administrator fired over the handling of the abuse of nonverbal autistic children at Jamison Elementary School has filed a lawsuit saying she was used as a scapegoat for the district’s mistakes.Alyssa Wright, former director of pupil services with the Central Bucks ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Groups of teens were allegedly causing trouble on State Street near the County Theater on Saturday night, leading to an arrest of a 16-year-old and a group of teens trying to free him from a squad car.On Sept. 20, a group of juveniles allegedly taunted what police said was “an older ...