TOP LOCAL News
By TAPINTO DOYLESTOWN STAFF
April 14, 2026
NEW BRITAIN TOWNSHIP, PA—New Britain Township police are praising the quick thinking of an 88-year-old resident who nearly fell prey to a grandparent scam but avoided forking $8,000 over to scammers.The intended victim of the scam, who police are identifying only as Gretel, received a call from ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Spring is here, and so is the return of community yard sales in the Doylestown area. Here are two sales that are coming up. The Hanusey Park Community Yard Sale will take place on April 18, 2026, from 8 a.m. to noon at 4757 Gordon Road in Doylestown. The sale is open to buyers and ...
WARRINGTON, PA—Warrington police say a series of thefts from a Home Depot netting nearly $7,500 in goods was an inside job coordinated by a store employee.On April 10, 2026, police charged 19-year-old Freddy Iban Madrid-Lopez of Philadelphia with working with two accomplices who gathered ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Two events in the Doylestown area will ring in Arbor Day 2026, which will take place on April 24.Doylestown Township will host the first of the two events with an Arbor Day Tree Planting & Mulching Work Day on Saturday, April 18, from 9-11 a.m. in the township’s Central Park on ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—For the eleventh week in a row, PennDOT has released its schedule for repairing potholes in area roads. This round of repairs is scheduled to begin on April 13, 2026, and targets the following roads in Bucks County:Route 232/Second Street Pike/Windy Bush Road, Upper Southampton, ...
LOWER SOUTHAMPTON TOWNSHIP, PA—Bustleton Pike will have its northbound closed near the road’s intersection with Street Road for most of this week for pipe work.The road, also known as Route 532, will be closed on the northbound side between Ruth Street and Route 213/Bridgetown Pike. Ruth Street is ...
PLUMSTEAD TOWNSHIP, PA—The Doylestown Post 175 VFW this week presented its Officer of the Year award to a Plumstead Township officer who helped save the life of a man who had shot himself in the leg with a shotgun.The veterans’ group presented the award to Officer A.J. Elkadousy for his actions in ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—The Central Bucks Regional Police are looking for information on two males involved in a retail theft that started with them trying to sell candy in the parking lot of the Wawa in Doylestown Borough.The incident began on March 24, 2026, at about 6:41 p.m., when an adult male and a ...
NEW BRITAIN TOWNSHIP, PA—Route 152 in New Britain and Hilltown townships is scheduled to be closed during the day for three days next week for a pipe replacement, directing motorists who need to get around the work to take a nine-mile detour.Route 152, which is also known as Main Street and ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—The League of Women Voters of Bucks County will have a candidate forum in late April for the two Democrats running to replace U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick in the 1st Congressional District in the primary on May 4, 2026.The candidate forum will be held on April 27, 2026, and feature ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—A 25-year-old passenger sitting in the back seat of a car has been charged with strangulation, simple assault and harassment after police said she choked the driver while it was parked at the McDonald’s in Doylestown Borough.On April 3, 2026, Central Bucks Regional Police responded ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—At a Wednesday night Q&A-style discussion at CB West High School, the next superintendent of the Central Bucks School District answered questions from the community, talking about everything from special education to budgets for Pennsylvania’s third-largest school district.Joanna ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—The CB East High School community is reeling after a student died unexpectedly this week.On Wednesday morning, the school district announced in an e-mail that Samuel Hanson, a sophomore at the school, had passed away. His mother, Megan Hanson, has been a special education teacher at ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—The Doylestown Historical Society is inviting students in grades K-12 to celebrate the country’s 250th birthday by taking part in its “Student Historian Contest.”The contest has three categories based on the age of students. Entries are due by May 1, so the window to participate is ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Doylestown Borough has begun the task of removing forever chemicals from three of its wells that supply water to the borough.Forever chemicals are more technically known as PFAS, which stands for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. The chemicals are found nearly everywhere, ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—The Doylestown Historical Society is continuing its year of events to commemorate the United States 250th birthday next week with a focus on the history of a local tavern and beer brewing in Pennsylvania.“Ale Through the Ages,” which will take place at the Water Wheel Tavern on April ...
HARRISBURG, PA—A group of Republican state lawmakers has joined the call for PECO to reconsider its recent rate hikes.PECO has proposed raising electric rates by 12.5%, which would lead to a hike of $20 a month for average families. It has also proposed an 11.4% hike for natural gas, which would ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Doylestown kicked off its annual fishing derby on Saturday morning, ushering in the first day of trout fishing and giving a new generation of anglers an experience that many will remember for years.An estimated 500 young anglers accompanied by parents and siblings stood ...
HARRISBURG, PA—A bill sponsored by a local state senator aims to modernize police technology in the Keystone state by allowing local police to use radar to catch speeding motorists.In Pennsylvania, only state police can use radar guns. Senate Bill 1237 aims to change that.The bill was introduced by ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Friends of the Doylestown Library will hold its third annual artisan market on Saturday, April 11, at Doylestown Township’s new Community Center on Wells Road from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.The free market is scheduled to feature 36 artisans and craftspeople selling a variety of goods, from ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—PennDOT this week is beginning repair and paving operations on 20 state roadways in the five-county Philadelphia area. Workers will repair, resurface and improve more than 240 miles of asphalt on the following roadways around Doylestown:Doylestown and Warwick townships: On Monday, ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Doylestown Township’s Environmental Advisory Council and Bird Town Committee will offer information on Eastern Bluebirds at a presentation and bird walk this weekend.The program, For the Love of Bluebirds, will be held on April 11, 2026, from 10 a.m. to noon in the main meeting room ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—For the tenth week in a row, PennDOT has released its schedule for repairing potholes in area roads. This round of repairs is scheduled to begin on April 6, 2026, and targets the following roads in Bucks County:U.S 13/Bristol Pike, Falls Township and Tullytown Borough.Route ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Doylestown held its third annual Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday morning, bringing out hundreds of kids and their families to Broad Commons Park on a beautiful spring morning.This year’s Easter Egg Hunt was a little bigger than last year’s with 300 kids divided into three groups. The ...
HARRISBURG, PA—Pennsylvania and New Jersey officials will join forces on April 14 to crack down on aggressive driving in hundreds of locations as part of a month-long campaign to reduce crashes, injuries and deaths.PennDOT is working with the Pennsylvania State Police and the state of New Jersey as ...
WARRINGTON TOWNSHIP, PA—Three Colombian nationals operating out of Queens have been charged with burglary and other crimes in several Pennsylvania municipalities that included a January theft in Warrington.After investigating a burglary on Magdalene Drive (near Folly Road and Street Road), ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Going into Nat’s Pizza on West State Street in Doylestown is a little like taking a step back in time. For Tim Wylie, who’s run the borough landmark since 2014, that’s entirely intentional.Wylie took over Nat’s Pizza after working there since he was a kid. Natale “Nat” Stabile, the ...
HARRISBURG, PA—Pennsylvania is warning motorists with unpaid tolls to pay up or face a ticket—or worse. The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission and the Pennsylvania State Police have begun a toll-enforcement campaign to target aggressive drivers and motorists driving on suspended registrations from ...
WARRINGTON TOWNSHIP, PA—A 35-year-old Horsham man is in trouble after blowing through a stop sign with marijuana in his car that he had smoked earlier in the day.On Feb. 24, a Warrington police officer saw a car fail to obey a stop sign at Kansas Road and Garden Avenue, which is behind the ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Penn Medicine Doylestown Health will offer free skin cancer screenings in May.As part of Skin Cancer Awareness Month, the health system and local dermatologists Mary Toporcer, MD, and Shannon Wiedersum, DO, will offer free screenings to people with no insurance or ...