After a most improbable playoff run following a mediocre regular season, the 2022 Philadelphia Phillies fell two games short of a World Series Championship to the Houston Astros on Saturday, Nov. 5. Riddled with injuries, functioning with an interim manager after firing Joe Girardi in June, and touting an 87-win regular season, the Phillies were...

Pennsylvania voters took to the polls on Nov. 8 and chose Josh Shapiro to be the state’s next governor, sent John Fetterman to the U.S. Senate and re-elected Brian Fitzpatrick to represent the 1st Congressional District in Congress. In a midterm election comprised of issues like abortion, inflation, crime, and student loans, these candidates used...

The Bucks County Community College Men's Soccer Team came away with a victory over the Manor Blue Jays in a match with double overtime to win the Eastern States Athletic Conference (ESAC) championship title 5-4. Despite 2022 being their first year in the ESAC the Centurions, and following an early season of injuries and defeats, the team bounced...

In a long-awaited forum, Republican incumbent Brian Fitzpatrick and Democratic challenger Ashley Ehasz publicly debated for the first time on Oct. 25 at the Lower Bucks Bristol Campus to a full, rowdy crowd of supporters, online viewers watching via livestream, and community members, as each candidate answered preselected questions concerning their...

Also see: Disaster Relief and Recovery After Flooding in Lambertville Clouds gathered in a gloomy sky as Bucks Language and Literature Professor Charlie Groth looked out her study window and watched a wall of rain move across Lambertville, NJ. Groth wondered if the deluge would swell the banks of the flood-prone Delaware River. It did. On...

In celebration of Constitution Day, the Epstein Campus at Lower Bucks hosted a panel discussion with five community leaders on Thursday, Sept. 15, about the constitutional implications and legislation of the Dobbs decision on Roe v. Wade. Roe v. Wade was a 1973 Supreme Court decision that gave women the constitutional right to an abortion, however...

It began around noon with a blizzard of tweets announcing that notes were being passed around Parliament to frontbench MPs with apparently distressing news. Scrolling through my phone while shopping at the grocery store, I had a sense of what might be coming – a long-planned protocol for the event had been in the public domain for years – but the...

The New Student Convocation, held on Tuesday Aug 30 at 5 p.m. in the gymnasium, was a night full of inspirational speeches, laughs, food, and a message of positivity and encouragement. The night began with students gathering in one of Bucks’ six houses, Arts & Communication, Business + Innovation, Health Sciences, Lang & Lit, Social &...

On June 24, 2022, in a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the 50-year-old landmark ruling that guaranteed the constitutional right to an abortion.  The decision comes from a review of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case which focused on Mississippi’s Gestational Age Act and prohibiting abortion after 15 weeks...

Bucks County Community College welcomed Pennsylvania First Lady Frances Wolf on Monday, June 27, to the Newtown Campus for a discussion with students about food insecurity. First Lady Wolf toured the Bucks campus, learning just how the college is addressing the basic needs of its students with programs like the campus food market, according to a...