Here are 5 New Hope-Lambertville Facebook groups to check out for fun and fresh info.

NEW HOPE, PA — New Hope is a lively and arty place and it's not easy to keep up with what's happening.

As everyone is reconnecting, one way that's happening is via Facebook groups focused on specific places and interests. There's no need to get lost in the scroll. Patch has done the footwork of separating out inactive pages and has identified 5 must-check-out New Hope-Lambertville Facebook groups.

Visit New Hope
This New Hope Chamber of Commerce site is the place to follow what's happening in business around town. Events, new businesses, connections are here. Below, see a handy FB post that shows how to register as a vendor in New Hope's huge Arts & Crafts Festival coming in September.

New Hope PA
This site has more than 35,000 followers keeping up on New Hope events, business news, shopping, history, and the arts. It provides citizen-based news from around New Hope, Solebury, and Lambertville. Its posts are current and local.

New Hope & Lambertville Community
This public Facebook page lists lots of events and has more than 17,000 followers. Like others, it has guidelines about courtesy and kindness. It's not for promotions and hate speech is not tolerated. Community members post pics from around town and give recommendations. It's a good vibe and a group you might want to be in.

Arts & Cultural Council of Bucks County
If you want to broaden your horizons to include more arty events, consider following this Facebook page along with 2,500 others. The non-profit Arts & Cultural Council of Bucks County brings events to communities across Bucks and this is the place to find out what's happening in nearby towns.

New Hope-Solebury Online Yard Sale
Online yard sales are wildly popular and New Hope has its own with more than 12,000 members hawking and buying, well, stuff. More than 180 new items posted on the site just today, so it's an active place you might want to check out.

For local New Hope-Lambertville news, make sure you go to the New Hope-Lambertville Patch Facebook page and follow.

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