• Hatboro Pizza Celebrates 25 Years of Serving Up Tradition and Community

    Hatboro Pizza Celebrates 25 Years of Serving Up Tradition and Community

    Hatboro Pizza has been a local favorite for 25 years, but its roots go even deeper, writes Dino Ciliberti for the Patch. Owners John and Monica Katelas have been in the pizza business since the 1970s, starting in Philadelphia before making their way to Hatboro, where they’ve built a true community staple. Since opening on…

  • Hatboro’s Azzur Group Files for Chapter 11, Plans $56M Sale of Consulting Division

    Hatboro’s Azzur Group Files for Chapter 11, Plans $56M Sale of Consulting Division

    Hatboro-based life sciences consulting firm Azzur Group has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, writes John George for the Philadelphia Business Journal. The company has agreed to sell its consulting division to Eliquent Life Sciences of Washington, D.C., for $56 million, pending approval from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court. Supported by Eliquent’s lead investor, GHO Capital,…

  • Hatboro-Horsham Students Honor Teacher’s Late Sister Through Acts of Kindness

    Hatboro-Horsham Students Honor Teacher’s Late Sister Through Acts of Kindness

    When Kristina Ulmer, an English teacher at Hatboro-Horsham High School, lost her sister Kate Amodei in a tragic 2014 car accident, she sought a way to honor her memory, writes Brea Dangelo for The Reporter. In 2018, she found it—through her students. Kate had dreamed of joining the Peace Corps and dedicated her life to…

  • Dill Dinkers Brings the Pickleball Craze to Hatboro

    Dill Dinkers Brings the Pickleball Craze to Hatboro

    The pickleball craze continues to sweep across the region with a new Dill Dinkers club opening soon on Warminster Road in Hatboro, writes Dino Ciliberti for the Patch. The new facility will open by the end of the month. This will be Dill Dinkers’ second Montgomery County pickleball location following their recently opened Lansdale location.…

  • Hatboro-Horsham Students Create Beautiful Black History Mural

    Hatboro-Horsham Students Create Beautiful Black History Mural

    Hatboro-Horsham Senior High School students have merged art and technology to create a beautiful Black history mural aimed at teaching diversity and inclusion, writes  Kim Hudson for CBS News. Black artists featured on the nine-foot-tall mural include woman guitarist and 1940s hitmaker Rosetta Tharpe, late actor Chadwick Boseman, and visual artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. The piece…

  • Aqua Pennsylvania Cuts Ribbon on New PFAS Treatment System at Hatboro Well Station

    Aqua Pennsylvania Cuts Ribbon on New PFAS Treatment System at Hatboro Well Station

    Aqua Pennsylvania recently cut the ribbon on its new PFAS treatment system at its Hatboro well station, ensuring 13,000 people in Montgomery County now have cleaner drinking water, reports CBS News Philadelphia. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, PFASs are a group of widely used, long-lasting chemicals whose components degrade at an extremely slow…

  • Aqua PA Installs 5th PFAS Treatment System in Montco

    Aqua PA Installs 5th PFAS Treatment System in Montco

    Aqua Pennsylvania has completed the PFAS treatment system at its Hatboro well station in Montgomery County. This is the fifth PFAS treatment facility that Aqua Pennsylvania has completed and placed into operation since 2018, all of which meet the new PFAS national drinking water standard. This new system removes PFAS from drinking water from two…

  • Hatboro Bakery Serves Cookies with a Side of Politics

    Hatboro Bakery Serves Cookies with a Side of Politics

    Lochel’s Bakery in Hatboro has once again brought back its Election Cookies, writes Ryan Genova for Glenside Local. The local tradition adds a fun twist to election predictions by selling red and blue cookies, serving as an unofficial poll of local voters. This year, the family-owned bakery at 57 S. York Road in Hatboro has…

  • Pennypack Events Committee To Host Music in the Meadow Friday, Sept. 20

    Pennypack Events Committee To Host Music in the Meadow Friday, Sept. 20

    The Pennypack Events Committee will host “Music in the Meadow” at the Pennypack Community Center (130 Spring Ave., Hatboro) on Friday, Sept. 20 (with a tentative rain date of Sept. 21). The event starts at 5:00 PM, and fireworks start at 8:00 PM. General parking is available at the bank street lot and Lehman Church,…

  • Montgomery County Visitors React to New Ocean City Rules for Teens

    Montgomery County Visitors React to New Ocean City Rules for Teens

    Following a Memorial Day weekend of chaos, Ocean City officials have decided to implement new rules aimed at reining in rowdy teens, and some Montgomery County visitors think they are being too strict, writes Chris O’Connell for Fox 29 Philadelphia. Ocean City leaders described a wild and raucous weekend where close to 1,000 calls were…

  • SCORE Bucks County Helps Winemaker Increase Annual Revenues

    SCORE Bucks County Helps Winemaker Increase Annual Revenues

    Shakia Williams always had an appreciation for wine. When she and her now-husband, Clifford, started dating, the couple savored moments together visiting wineries and doing wine tastings. From there, she began working at wineries. “I learned how to operationalize a winery and make wine,” said Shakia, the owner of Hatboro-based Cyrenity Sips Winery, a micro-winery…

  • Family-Run Ross and Company Kitchen Brings Culinary Excellence and Entertainment to Hatboro

    Family-Run Ross and Company Kitchen Brings Culinary Excellence and Entertainment to Hatboro

    Family-run Ross and Company Kitchen is expanding to Hatboro and bringing good food, sweet cocktails, and live music for everybody to enjoy, reports Rachel Moore for PHL17. The eatery is owned industry veteran Bob Ross, who got his first restaurant gig flipping pancakes when he was just fifteen years old. “I grew up throughout the…

  • MONTCO Today Interview: Wife of Hatboro Officer Taken by Bee Sting Describes Her Journey

    MONTCO Today Interview: Wife of Hatboro Officer Taken by Bee Sting Describes Her Journey

    It’s been 16 months since Whitney Lyn Allen’s husband — Hatboro K9 police officer Ryan Allen — was felled by a happenstance bee sting at his Quakertown home. She spent much of that period grieving and attending to her newborn son, who she was carrying during Ryan’s initial incapacity. But she also carved out both…

  • Apartment Building Construction at Hatboro CVS Site Progressing

    Apartment Building Construction at Hatboro CVS Site Progressing

    The developer of the long-dormant former Hatboro CVS site is starting to make progress towards construction, writes Dino Ciliberti for the Patch. According to borough officials, plans to develop a four-story building with 36 apartments and retail space on South York Road are inching forward. The apartments will be “high-end, professional,” said 24-28 South York…

  • Ross & Co. Continues Preparations to Replace Bernie’s in Hatboro in 2024

    Ross & Co. Continues Preparations to Replace Bernie’s in Hatboro in 2024

    Ross & Co., the restaurant that will replace Bernie’s in Hatboro, may take a bit longer than expected to finish the revamping process and open its doors to eager patrons, writes Dino Ciliberti for Patch. A banner currently hanging from the building states that the new eatery from the owners of popular GypsyBlu in Ambler…

  • Micro-Winery Cyrenity Sips Has Found a Sweet Spot in Hatboro

    Micro-Winery Cyrenity Sips Has Found a Sweet Spot in Hatboro

    Shakia Williams, who launched her micro-winery Cyrenity Sips a little over a year ago, has found a sweet spot in Hatboro, writes Kristen Mosbrucker-Garza for WHYY. Located right on Main Street, Cyrenity Sips is one of the few wineries in the country owned and operated by a Black woman. Right there on the premises, they…

  • Two Hatboro Police Officers Honored for Saving Elderly Man from Fire

    Two Hatboro Police Officers Honored for Saving Elderly Man from Fire

    Montgomery County’s Joe Keegan, 97 years old, was reunited with the two Hatboro police officers who rescued him from a fire on Thanksgiving Day, writes Ellen Kolodziej for Fox 29. At a ceremony where Officer Aaron Simon and Rob McMahon were honored by the Borough, Keegan was able to express his gratitude to them for…

  • Kate Scott, Groundbreaking Voice of 76ers, Is Only Second Woman to Serve As Full-Time Play-by-Play Announcer in NBA History

    Kate Scott, Groundbreaking Voice of 76ers, Is Only Second Woman to Serve As Full-Time Play-by-Play Announcer in NBA History

    Kate Scott, the groundbreaking voice of Philadelphia 76ers, is only the second woman to serve as a full-time play-by-play announcer in NBA history, writes Emily Goulet for the Philadelphia Magazine. Scott is still amazed at where she landed in her career. “There’s absolutely no reason I should be here,” she said in a recent interview…