TOP LOCAL News
By TAPINTO DOYLESTOWN STAFF
July 14, 2025
DOYLESTOWN, PA—A 50-year-old Doylestown woman was charged with attempted murder over the weekend after police found her boyfriend suffering multiple cuts from a meat cleaver.On July 12 at about 10 p.m., police were sent to the area of South Main Street and State Street in Doylestown after a 911 ...
WARRINGTON TOWNSHIP, PA—A second employee of BJ’s Wholesale Club has been charged with processing fake credit card applications to inflate his commissions and other fraud.Warrington police announced that on June 24, they arrested 21-year-old Chance Andrew Lerner of Southampton after the store’s ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—The streets of Doylestown will be packed with 500 vehicles this weekend when the annual Doylestown at Dusk car show returns on Saturday night.Up to 30,000 people are expected to attend the show from 5-10 p.m. to check out a wide range of vehicles, from antique cars to hot rods to ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—A Lansdale-based band that specializes in music by Billy Joel will take the stage in Doylestown’s Central Park as part of the Thompson Performing Arts Summer Concert Series on Wednesday, July 16.Expect to hear songs like “You May Be Right,” “Captain Jack,” “We Didn’t Start the Fire” ...
MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP, PA—If you’re going to be out and about on Sunday night, you should try to avoid the Montgomeryville area.The area around the five-point intersection at Route 309/Bethlehem Pike, Route 463/Horsham Road/Cowpath Road and Business U.S. 202/Doylestown Road will have a complete ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—As construction continues at the Barn Plaza shopping center on Route 611 in the southern part of Doylestown Township, four new restaurants are now slated to open, although one isn’t official.At last month’s meeting of the township’s Board of Supervisors, the latest addition to the ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Doylestown’s cat café officially opened its bigger and better location on Wednesday morning, giving more people the chance to cuddle with cats over a cup of coffee or tea and desert.The café opened the doors at its new location at 4161 East Swamp Road, near the intersection of Route ...
PLUMSTEAD TOWNSHIP, PA—Plumstead Township’s Board of Supervisors has named Chief of Police David Mettin its first Director of Public Safety. The new position will oversee the operations of the police department and serve as a liaison to the volunteer fire company and emergency medical services. The ...
WARRINGTON TOWNSHIP, PA—Police say that a man who was told to leave a Warrington hotel after causing property damage returned the next day to cause additional damage—but without wearing any pants.On July 4, staff at the Hampton Inn & Suites just off of Easton Road called police to complain that ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Several Central Bucks police departments are part of more than 80 local police departments working with the state police to crack down on aggressive drivers in the five-county Philadelphia area now through late August.PennDOT announced that the departments will work with the ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Doylestown Borough’s concert series featuring big band sounds and a community orchestra returns to Broad Commons Park on Thursday nights through early August.The free concerts will feature opening act The Heat, a big band specializing in 1940s-style jazz. They’ll be followed by a ...
NEW BRITAIN TOWNSHIP, PA—Police are looking for two couples who shoplifted from the Wawa at Butler Avenue and County Line Road last week.On July 1 at about 2 a.m., a couple stole unidentified merchandise from the store and left in what appears to be a dark-colored, early 2000s Honda Accord. While ...
WARRINGTON TOWNSHIP, PA—In the first six months of 2025, Warrington Township issued 2,946 violations as part of its red-light camera program.The highest number of violations—826—came from traffic going southbound on Easton Road toward the intersection of Street Road. The second most—654—came from ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—The Doylestown Arts Festival has released the lineup of the 160-plus artists that will be exhibiting at this year’s festival on Sept. 6 and 7. The list includes students and seasoned professionals working alone or in groups sin a variety of styles, media and scale. Festival ...
WARRINGTON TOWNSHIP, PA—Warrington police have charged a man with punching and biting several of his family members last week during an argument that turned violent.On July 1 at about 11:30 p.m., police arrived at the 2500 block of Diane’s Way for the report of an altercation. Family members of ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Doylestown will host a celebration of Oscar Hammerstein’s 130th birthday celebration this weekend.The Oscar Hammerstein Museum & Theatre Education Center will host concerts featuring performances from the Rodgers & Hammerstein songbook. Three performers will sing Hammerstein ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—If you like Top 40 hits from the 1960s and early 1970s, check out the show by AM Radio in Doylestown’s Central Park as part of the Thompson Performing Arts Summer Concert Series on Wednesday, July 9.Expect to hear music from groups like Tommy James and the Shondells, Jefferson ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Police are looking for a male who they say found a way to use his e-bike to vandalize the McDonald’s in town late last month. On June 27, a male entered the restaurant with his e-bike. When McDonald’s staff asked him to remove the bike, the male complied, but he used the back wheel ...
WARRINGTON TOWNSHIP, PA—A woman has been charged with creating fake credit applications so she could pocket the commissions paid by the Warrington store where she works.On June 24, Warrington police charged 66-year-old Martha Karolczak of Horsham with using her work tablet at BJ’s Wholesale Club to ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Doylestown Health Foundation’s golf outing last month raised $125,000 to support capital improvements at Doylestown Hospital and to honor a CB East High School graduate with a scholarship.The 34th annual Doylestown Health Foundation Golf Classic was held on June 2 in New Hope. More ...
NEW BRITAIN TOWNSHIP, PA—The annual Tri-Municipal 4th of July Parade kicks off this year at 9:30 a.m. on Friday morning, bringing back the only Fourth of July parade in Central Bucks.The parade starts at Town Center of New Britain, the shopping center with a Giant on Butler Avenue, in New Britain ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—In an emergency meeting held on Tuesday night, the Central Bucks school board appointed an interim solicitor until a permanent replacement can be found.The school district gave no information about why the previous solicitor—Ed Diasio from the firm Wisler Pearlstine—was no longer in ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—A local author will discuss his book profiling the 100-plus Bucks County Veterans who lost their lives in the Vietnam War at Plumstead’s Grange Hall at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday.Jim McComb, a Plumstead Township Supervisor, will discuss his book, “More Than Names on a Wall.” McComb is a ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Police are asking for the public’s help in finding a woman they say is a serial shoplifter who hit the Doylestown Target twice in June.The Central Bucks Regional Police Department said the woman, pictured above, shoplifted more than $100 of merchandise from the Doylestown Target on ...
WARRINGTON TOWNSHIP, PA—A Chalfont man has been charged with engaging in “lewd behavior” in a hot tub in the Warrington LA Fitness in early June.Police said that staff members discovered Ronald Bratis, 53, engaging in a sexual act while watching explicit material on his cell phone in the hot tub on ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—The federal government has agreed to fund Head Start services for another five years, with the Bucks County Intermediate Unit being chosen to administer the grant.It wasn’t clear whether Head Start services were going to be renewed by the Trump administration. At one point, it looked ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Four students from the Central Bucks are—three from the Central Bucks School District and one from the Middle Bucks Institute of Technology—have received $1,000 scholarships from Foundations Community Partnership.The four are part of a group of 25 students from across Bucks County ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—After being delayed by weather two weeks in a row, the summer concert series will (hopefully) return to Doylestown’s Central Park on Wednesday night for the fifth scheduled show in the township’s 2025 Thompson Performing Arts Series at the C&N Amphitheater.The band Lights Out ...
WARRINGTON TOWNSHIP, PA—The stretch of Street Road between Route 611/Easton Road and Lower State Road, where Street Road ends, will be receiving some much-needed repairs this summer.State Rep. Brian Munroe announced on his Facebook page that construction on that part of Street Road, which ends near ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Doylestown won’t have fireworks or a parade for the Fourth of July, but there are plenty of ways to celebrate the red, white and blue in Central Bucks. Here’s a look at Independence Day celebrations in and around Doylestown.An old-fashioned Fourth. Fonthill Castle will hold its ...