http://www.phillyburbs.com/The latest headlines from phillyBurbs.com, a Calkins Media Incorporated company.en-ushttp://www.phillyburbs.com/http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/images/default/template/pb_logo05.gifCopyright 2008 Calkins Media IncorporatedFri, 18 Jul 2008 12:30:32 -0500This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LouSessinger/~3/328806759/137-07072008-1559558.htmlMon, 07 Jul 2008 06:01:51 -0500http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-07072008-1559558.htmlThe name of William S. Geary appears on Panel 27, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., one name among the 58,249 names engraved on the reflective black surface of "The Wall."http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-07072008-1559558.htmlhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LouSessinger/~3/323187987/137-06302008-1556446.htmlMon, 30 Jun 2008 05:02:54 -0500http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-06302008-1556446.htmlA four-day workweek isn't a new idea, but it's an idea whose time might come soon for some or even all employees of Montgomery County.http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-06302008-1556446.htmlhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LouSessinger/~3/318045272/137-06232008-1553103.htmlMon, 23 Jun 2008 06:06:37 -0500http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-06232008-1553103.htmlThe fight to keep the magnificent art collection of the Barnes Foundation in Lower Merion appears to be over, at least on the legal front.http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-06232008-1553103.htmlhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LouSessinger/~3/312975454/137-06162008-1549741.htmlMon, 16 Jun 2008 03:39:31 -0500http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-06162008-1549741.htmlBob Sander heads up the economic crime unit of the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office. He's a lawyer and prosecutor, naturally, but he also has a degree in finance from Temple where he was in the accounting honors program. He understands the worlds of finance and business, and that knowledge helps catch criminals who prowl the fringes of those worlds hunting for prey to fleece.http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-06162008-1549741.htmlhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LouSessinger/~3/307955320/137-06092008-1546258.htmlMon, 09 Jun 2008 06:03:47 -0500http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-06092008-1546258.htmlJohn Augustine is working on a degree in engineering at Montgomery County Community College. He's 25, a little older than many of his classmates. When he finishes at MCCC, he plans to continue his studies at Temple or Drexel. His age isn't the only thing that makes Augustine a little different from most college students.http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-06092008-1546258.htmlhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LouSessinger/~3/297719817/137-05252008-1539136.htmlSun, 25 May 2008 06:18:32 -0500http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-05252008-1539136.htmlJohn Corbett grew up in South Philly but he has always been in love with the sea.http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-05252008-1539136.htmlhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LouSessinger/~3/292797128/137-05182008-1535763.htmlSun, 18 May 2008 05:38:17 -0500http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-05182008-1535763.htmlThe red, white and blue cakes were decorated with American flags and inscriptions that read: "913th - Gone but not Forgotten." That was the general sentiment Saturday as about 135 members, friends and family of the Air Force Reserve's 913th Airlift Wing came together for lunch at Caf La Fontana in Hatboro.http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-05182008-1535763.htmlhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LouSessinger/~3/290859566/137-05152008-1534343.htmlThu, 15 May 2008 05:59:13 -0500http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-05152008-1534343.htmlJohn Potts, who lent his name to Pottstown and Pottsgrove Township in Montgomery County, was something of a tycoon back in the 18th century - an iron tycoon.http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-05152008-1534343.htmlhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LouSessinger/~3/289379951/137-05132008-1533112.htmlTue, 13 May 2008 04:34:12 -0500http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-05132008-1533112.htmlI can remember having $5 in my pocket on a Saturday night in 1965, putting a dollar's worth of gas in the car, taking a girlfriend to a movie and out for pizza or burgers afterwards, and still having change left over.http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-05132008-1533112.htmlhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LouSessinger/~3/288025078/137-05112008-1532291.htmlSun, 11 May 2008 06:01:13 -0500http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-05112008-1532291.htmlIt's easy to get sentimental on Mother's Day. The shops are filled with all kinds of sentimental, mushy Mother's Day cards. But that's OK because our moms will always be special. If anybody deserves a day of unconditional mushiness, it's our moms. They gave us life and are the first people in our lives to teach us how to receive and, if we're lucky, to give love with no strings attached.http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-05112008-1532291.htmlhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LouSessinger/~3/286042017/137-05082008-1530871.htmlThu, 08 May 2008 05:39:40 -0500http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-05082008-1530871.htmlIf you've ever had the misfortune of trying to navigate heavily traveled Route 309 through Richland Township and Quakertown you can understand why some municipal officials there are irked.http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-05082008-1530871.htmlhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LouSessinger/~3/283306873/137-05042008-1529020.htmlSun, 04 May 2008 07:06:56 -0500http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-05042008-1529020.htmlWell, I just cheated myself out of $216. Not a lot of money, but these days every little bit helps. That's the estimated amount the state says I would have saved on next year's school property tax bill up in the Pennridge District where I own my house. But I can kiss that money goodbye because I didn't file an application for the homestead exclusion with the Bucks County Board of Assessment Appeals before the March 1 deadline.http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-05042008-1529020.htmlhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LouSessinger/~3/282834331/137-05032008-1528742.htmlSat, 03 May 2008 11:07:43 -0500http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-05032008-1528742.htmlStripped of power by the Matthews-Hoeffel alliance, he voiced disapproval of economic development policy.http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-05032008-1528742.htmlhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LouSessinger/~3/281416146/137-05012008-1527700.htmlThu, 01 May 2008 06:41:47 -0500http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-05012008-1527700.htmlTalk about having a bad day. Your house catches fire, and the fire company is delayed getting there because its trucks can't cross a bridge along the way or, even worse, the bridge collapses under the weight of the fire truck. That scenario hasn't happened, but it's something about which people are concerned in at least one Bucks County township.http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-05012008-1527700.htmlhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LouSessinger/~3/276117958/137-04232008-1523442.htmlWed, 23 Apr 2008 04:28:26 -0500http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-04232008-1523442.htmlNot everybody in Pennsylvania, of course, cast ballots in Pennsylvania's hotly contested Democratic primary on Tuesday, but that's not to say they weren't as keenly interested in the outcome as anybody who did vote.http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-04232008-1523442.htmlhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LouSessinger/~3/275358458/137-04222008-1522894.htmlTue, 22 Apr 2008 05:38:33 -0500http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-04222008-1522894.htmlIt would be nice if at the end of the day we could put to bed the never-ending story of who will be the Democratic Party's presidential candidate, but don't count on it.http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-04222008-1522894.htmlhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LouSessinger/~3/274067939/137-04202008-1522052.htmlSun, 20 Apr 2008 06:24:23 -0500http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-04202008-1522052.htmlContention is no stranger to the meeting room of the Montgomery County commissioners, and the three men who run county government were at it again last week.http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-04202008-1522052.htmlhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LouSessinger/~3/272133466/137-04172008-1520659.htmlThu, 17 Apr 2008 05:29:42 -0500http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-04172008-1520659.htmlIf ABC-TV's nationally televised debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on Wednesday night was one of those media circuses you're always hearing about, then I was one of the clowns.http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-04172008-1520659.htmlhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LouSessinger/~3/270866634/137-04152008-1519262.htmlTue, 15 Apr 2008 05:20:58 -0500http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-04152008-1519262.htmlNobody was really surprised at Gov. Ed Rendell's decision to seek all the land inside the fence of the Willow Grove Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Horsham for use as an interagency homeland security hub. That was the best scenario recommended by the consultants commissioned to look at options for the installation envisioned there.http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-04152008-1519262.htmlhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LouSessinger/~3/270665151/137-04132008-1518260.htmlSun, 13 Apr 2008 04:13:47 -0500http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-04132008-1518260.html"Go, Megan! Take it down! Center it!" That's the kind of encouragement you typically hear shouted by parent spectators at a kids' soccer game.http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/137-04132008-1518260.html