Community Corner
Holly Nights at Pennsbury Manor, Holiday Open House in Middletown
Check out what's happening in Levittown today.
- Middletown Township hosts the annual open house to welcome the holiday season Thursday, beginning at 6 p.m. and lasting until 8 p.m. at the municipal complex. Come and enjoy the Neshaminy High School Orchestra, listen to carols sung by the Our Lady of Grace Children’s Choir and take a ride in a carriage drawn by regal, Belgian draft horses. Santa will arrive amid sirens on a fire truck and will visit with children. Don’t forget to bring a non-perishable food item, new mittens or gloves as your admission to this gala event. Items received will be donated to a local food pantry or assistance agency. Middletown Township wishes everyone a safe and happy holiday season.
- Pennsbury Manor will become a winter wonderland when it hosts its annual Holly Nights Thursday and Friday between 6 and 9 p.m. Enjoy crackling bonfires, carolers, candlelit tours of the Manor House, craft demonstrations and musical entertainment from the Pennsbury Brass Ensemble, Levittown Choraliers, the Youth Orchestra of Bucks County's Honors String Quartet and more. Tickets cost $12 for adults, $10 for seniors and $6 for children ages 3-11 years old.
- The Bristol Township Council meets tonight at the township building at 7 p.m. The busy agenda includes a presentation on the proposed 2014 budget and consideration of preliminary and final approvals for the Bristol Township School District's land development plans for James Buchanan and Ralph Waldo Emerson elementary schools.
- The staff and students of Walter Miller Elementary School in the Neshaminy School District recently organized a school-wide collection to help the victims of the Philippines typhoon disaster. The efforts collected $865 for the American Red Cross that will be directly earmarked for the Philippine relief effort to provide emergency care for all of those in need.Â
- The dense fog will remain throughout most of the morning, with rainy conditions the rest of the day and highs near 60, according to the National Weather Service.
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