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Effort To Turn Hammerstein's Home Into A Museum Gets Big Boost
With the $150,000 donation, The Leff Family Foundation has naming rights for Oscar Hammerstein’s study when the museum opens.

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With the $150,000 donation, The Leff Family Foundation has naming rights for Oscar Hammerstein’s study when the museum opens.

The brewing equipment arrived this week. Plus, Iron Hill will begin hiring for more than 100 positions starting Monday.
A two-car crash is causing "significant" delays on southbound 611 Thursday morning, Doylestown Township Police said.
Nearly 20 restaurants are participating in the annual Delaware River Town's Restaurant Week, which kicks off this Sunday.
High winds capable of knocking down trees and power lines are expected throughout the Philadelphia region Thursday.
A Levittown woman and area bank teller was arrested Wednesday and charged with stealing thousands from customer accounts, police said.
An employee at the PNC Bank in Doylestown was arrested Wednesday and charged with stealing thousands from customer accounts, police said.
A Philadelphia man has been charged in connection with seven overnight burglaries in Newtown, as well as one in Upper Makefield.
A Philadelphia man has been charged with six overnight burglaries in New Hope.
Grammy Award-nominated Sweet Honey in the Rock will perform in Newtown this week at Bucks County Community College.
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A law that lifts the hunting ban for three Sundays is now in effect in Pennsylvania.
Communities, schools and businesses should begin preparing now for “the expectation that this could be bad,” CDC officials said Tuesday.
The fire broke out just before 1 a.m. at two buildings on Sand Road, Central Bucks Regional Police said.
Nearly three years after her son's murder spree on a Bucks County farm, Cosmo DiNardo's mother has spoken.
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Council Rock School District parents have launched a petition to prevent the relocation of a special needs program.
Stephanie's in Doylestown has reinvented itself.
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