Dugout, PoV, Mahlors Rock Lansdale Music Factory

The event took place Friday night at the new music and arts venue on West Main Street in downtown Lansdale.

The Mahlors, Dugout and Pillars of Villainy rocked the stage inside Lansdale Music Factory Friday night. The arts and music venue at 315 W. Main St.—the former PEAK Center—in downtown Lansdale opened about a month ago and has already been a hit with local musicians and vinyl record collectors. Check out the photo gallery from the show and add your own.

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Lansdale Hires GIS Analyst

Justin Smith, of Doylestown, will guide various borough departments through a new Geographic Information Systems implementation in the borough. Borough Manager Timi Kirchner also announced the first-ever boroughwide employee meeting.

Borough Manager Timi Kirchner announced to borough council this month that Lansdale Borough has begun its implementation of a new Geographic Information System for its departments with the hiring of a new GIS analyst. "Yet again, as we have said before, we don't let reports sit on the shelf, gathering dust. We identified a comprehensive IT report for the borough and ... brought aboard a new GIS analyst," she said. The new analyst is Justin Smith, of Doylestown, who recently graduated from Rutgers University with a 3.6 GPA. "He's a very bright young man," said Kirchner. "He's really excited about doing this. Other folks are really excited too, as are other departments." Kirchner told council that Smith has begun working with the public …

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Route 202 Parkway a Suburban Skyline Drive

Driving the parkway went smoothly on opening day, but it remains to be seen if the scenic road will be able to handle heavy traffic

It's like a suburban Skyline Drive. That's the impression I got as I drove the Route 202 Parkway just minutes after it opened to traffic late Monday afternoon. The real Skyline Drive is a 105-mile-long, two-lane road that runs the length of Shendandoah National Park in Virginia, featuring overlooks with sweeping vistas. The 35 mph road is free of commercial development, has overpasses and underpasses to avoid traffic lights, and is restricted to cars and passenger trucks. The new Route 202 Parkway would be a fantastic road if it were located in the Endless Mountains of Pennsylvania. It is protected from commercial development and private access, and is paralleled for its entire length by a paved 12-foot-wide bike-hike trail separated from …

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Route 202 Parkway Set to Open Dec. 3

The $200 million Parkway will have a 40mph limit and feature 12-foot-wide shared-use bike and pedestrian pathways

After many years of construction, and numerous traffic restrictions for new guardrails, traffic signalization, sound walls and the like, the $200 million U.S. Route 202 Parkway will open to traffic Monday, Dec. 3. The 8.4-mile Parkway, according to PennDOT, is a direct route from Montgomeryville to Doylestown, beginning at Route 63 near Stump Road and ending at Route 611. “We look forward to opening Pennsylvania’s newest roadway as the Route 202 Parkway will provide additional transportation capacity and enhance travel along this congested corridor in Montgomery and Bucks counties,” PennDOT District Executive Lester C. Toaso said in a statement. The Parkway boasts four 11-foot-wide travel lanes (two in each direction), between Route 63/…

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Route 202 Parkway to Open in December

The $200 million Parkway will provide a direct route between Doylestown and Montgomeryville

After decades of discussion and years of planning and construction, the Route 202 Parkway will open in early December, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation said Thursday. The $200 million U.S. Route 202 Parkway will connect Doylestown and Montgomeryville. “We are eager to finish the remaining work along the nearly nine-mile-long Parkway so we can open the new roadway and its shared-use path to commuters, bicyclists and pedestrians,” PennDOT District Executive Lester C. Toaso said in a statement. “The Parkway is nearly completed but contractors will work the next few weeks to wrap up a number of project-related tasks.” Items still left to finish include extensive landscaping; more than 10,000 trees, shrubs and perennials will be …

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News Next Door: Naked Doylestown Man Arrested After Gnawing on Woman’s Head

A 20-year-old Doylestown man has been arrested in northern Pennsylvania after stripping naked, jumping out a window and attacking a woman walking nearby.

Naked, screaming and bloody from jumping out a second-story window, a Doylestown man has been arrested in northern Pennsylvania after attacking a woman and “gnawing on her head,” according to state police there. Richard Cimino Jr., 20, of Doylestown is in custody and faces multiple charges in connection to the attack, which Pennsylvania State Police said occurred Friday. The bizarre attack happened in the borough of Hawley in Wayne County in northern Pennsylvania. State Trooper David Aulisio told Doylestown Patch Wednesday night that the incident happened between 4:30 and 5:15 a.m. on Hudson Street in the tiny town, which is home to about 1,200 people. Aulisio said it started when Cimino drove his car off the road behind some houses on …

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NP '01 Grad Has Hunger for Online Restaurant Ordering

Jake Wallace, a 2001 North Penn grad, and Chuck Hall, are Doylestown residents who are the brains behind Local Brands LLC, which combines restaurant menus and online ordering in one

The next time you're hungry and in the Doylestown area, just satisfy your indecisiveness at DoylestownMenus.com. There, most restaurants in Doylestown and surrounding Bucks County area are listed with links to either their online menus or online ordering, or both. As featured in The Reporter, the creators of DoylestownMenus.com are 2001 North Penn graduate Jake Wallace and his business partner Chuck Hall. They both run LocalBrandsLLC.com. Both reside in Doylestown, which led to the creation of DoylestownMenus.com. On the back burner: LansdaleMenus.com, BucksCountyMenus.com and MontgomeryCountyMenus.com. Eventually, these three, like DoylestownMenus.com, will be online-ordering websites that combine all local restaurant information in one …

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Nominate the Region's Best Cover Band

Who do you think rocks your favorite songs?

Gunman Surrenders After 10-Hour Armed Standoff in Doylestown

The suspect, an off-duty New Jersey police officer, exchanged sporadic fire with responding officers as mid-afternoon standoff lasts until nearly midnight.

DOYLESTOWN (PA) - In the end, Richard Klementovich had nothing to say. The off-duty police officer from Clifton, NJ, was escorted from the back of a Doylestown Township squad car shortly after midnight Sunday after a 10-hour armed standoff that forced neighbors to evacuate their homes in this affluent suburb of Philadelphia. Klementovich remained silent as officers ushered him into the police department where he would be booked to face at least 13 charges of criminal attempted homicide and reckless endangerment. About a half hour earlier, Klementovich had surrendered without incident to officers on the front lawn of his estranged wife's home at 25 Bittersweet Drive in the Doylestown Lea neighborhood of Doylestown Township. As police began …

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Vern

9:15 pm on Wednesday, June 20, 2012

When you see that kind of police response do not stand there and make it their job to tell you to leave. Be an adult and get your kids to a safe place. The police can not protect the whole world. Stop being a "deer caught in headlights" just because you think it might interesting to see what is going on. Go home and read about it later.   more ›