The Midweek Wire

02/27/2017

ICYMI: “We can keep our country safe and still respect the rights of immigrants. I don’t believe they are mutually exclusive ... I think we can advance both and we must advance both ... I’m going to be front and center on that.”

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In a telephone town hall meeting last week, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick addressed President Trump’s travel ban and the Affordable Care Act, occasionally speaking in opposition to the White House stances…

02/23/2017

“The epidemic of opioid addiction and abuse - and the strains it puts on our communities and families – is too important to be put on the backburner. Bucks and Montgomery county families can’t wait for a solution from Washington partisans; they deserve an independent voice willing to forgo the political games and focus on solutions."

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U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-8th dist.) has joined both the Bipartisan He**in Task Force and the Congressional Addiction, Treatment and Recovery Caucus. A former drug crime federal prosecutor and…

02/22/2017

It's official! Bristol Borough wins the Small Business Revolution

02/22/2017

“I think in sports, especially team sports, when you’re part of a team, it gets into your DNA and you carry it on into life. You look back, it’s 30 years ago, there’s a lot of big life lessons you learned, I did, through football — playing, and being part of a team.”
- Bucks County Commissioner Robert G. Loughery

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This Saturday, Bucks County Commissioner Robert Loughrey will travel to Carlisle in Cumberland County to celebrate a man who, perhaps more than he realized at the time, changed his life some 30 yea…

02/21/2017

Lower Bucks Hospital hosts a heart health expo with everything blood pressure checks to CPR training and yoga on Feb. 27. The hospital then teams up with Artists of Bristol for their art gallery anniversary gala that night.

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Lower Bucks Hospital, 501 Bath Road in Bristol Township, hosts a free community heart health expo on Feb. 27 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Take part in a yoga class, learn how to perform hands-only CPR, h…

02/21/2017

The Council Rock North and South baseball players play their first Backyard “BAT”TLE" event to benefit the Travis Manion Foundation on April 22. On March 10, the Council Rock Education Foundation (CREF) hosts "The Duel" at The Fuge in Warminster.

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First Council Rock Backyard “BAT”TLE event Join the Council Rock South and Council Rock North baseball players for the first Backyard “BAT”TLE event at Arm & Hammer Park, 1 Thunder Road in Tren…

02/21/2017

“When you write something, you don’t know quite what you’re going to do with it until you’re in front of an audience. You react differently in that live setting.”

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Keli Vale Dog and Bull - Brew and Music House

Singer Keli Vale has never been one to rest on her laurels. The jazz vocalist returned to school years into her already successful career for a degree in vocal performance. Then, nearly two decades…

02/20/2017

Proceeds the First Methodist Church of Bristol food pantry, which serves approximately 250 people a month.

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The First Methodist Church of Bristol, 201 Mulberry St. in Bristol Borough, is hosting an amateur chili cookoff on Feb. 25 from 3 to 5 p.m. Proceeds benefit the church’s food pantry, which serves a…

02/20/2017

“Our Patriots are a group of battle-tested members who won hard-fought races in 2016 and are ready to win once again."

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The National Republican Congressional Committee has included U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-8th dist.) in its 10-member Patriot Program. Fitzpatrick and the other incumbents are being targeted by D…

02/20/2017

“I certainly agree that education and awareness is a big part of the battle. What we’re wrestling with is … we’ve made people aware, what is the ‘Now what?’ we need to be focusing on to impact this?”

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Last week, as two towns in Lower Bucks held public meetings addressing the opioid epidemic, Bucks County Commissioners asked the Department of Health and Human Services what next steps they can tak…

02/17/2017

“This is a monster with many, many tentacles. We can’t punish addiction away, and there needs to be steps for communities to embrace this problem and take it on.”

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Hundreds of locals came out to Cairn University in Langhorne on Wednesday night for a town hall on overdose prevention in Lower Bucks. The panel discussion included experts in the fields of governm…

02/17/2017

“It’s been a great event, really. There are no winners or losers. What they’ve done is rekindled pride here in Bristol. It’s just been great, the spirit here.
“It’s like they’ve been saying: We already won.”
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Bristol Borough: Raising the Bar Margaret R. Grundy Memorial Museum

The last phase of the Small Business Revolution contest ended where it started: on computer screens. Two Thursdays ago, Bristolians awoke early to read on social media the news they’d hoped for: Br…