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Peg Quann

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Freelance reporter

 Bucks County, PA
Joined November 2010
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Federal agency orders #EnergyTransfer to inspect, fix miles of pipeline in several states after leaks found in #BucksCounty, #Pa. and #Michigan. buckscountyherald.com/news/f…
Federal agency orders Sunoco parent to fix its pipelines

Federal agency orders Sunoco parent to fix its pipelines

The federal agency that oversees the interstate transport of hazardous materials has issued a 17-page “Corrective Action Order” to Energy Transfer to fix its pipeline system

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Registered #nurses at #Jefferson #Bucks #Hospital seek to unionize. buckscountyherald.com/news/h…
Jefferson Bucks Hospital nurses mount unionization effort

Jefferson Bucks Hospital nurses mount unionization effort

Approximately 160 nurses at Jefferson Bucks Hospital and another 40 at two centers connected with Jefferson Einstein Hospital in Philadelphia held a press conference Tuesday at the Bucks hospital in

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The #Bucks County relatives of those lost on #9-11 and others affected remember that fateful day: buckscountyherald.com/news/r…
Remembering the September 11 terrorist attacks, 25 years later

Remembering the September 11 terrorist attacks, 25 years later

It’s been a quarter-century since the tragedy of 9-11 changed the nation. Many Americans alive today weren’t yet born or are too young to remember. But for those who do,

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#LowerMakefield #police officer ranked best in nation in #pool trick shots. buckscountyherald.com/news/p…
Lower Makefield's trick-shot cop patrols both town and table

Lower Makefield's trick-shot cop patrols both town and table

Lower Makefield Police Officer Steve Markle travels the world as the United States' top trick-shot pool player. Markle, 34, is ranked first in the Billiard Congress of America artistic pool

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#AlongtheWay helps families in #Bucks, #Montgomery counties, #PA who work unusual hours with #childcare. buckscountyherald.com/news/b…
Souderton nonprofit fills the childcare gaps that crop up "Along the Way"

Souderton nonprofit fills the childcare gaps that crop up "Along the Way"

Along the Way helped 411 families last year and has provided 25,000 hours of childcare since it was founded in 2014 to help area moms needing childcare services when daycares

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#PennsylvaniaHouse breaks summer recess to plan deadline vote on bill addressing second-degree murder convictions in light of #Pa.SupremeCourt ruling. #Bucks legislators head to Harrisburg. buckscountyherald.com/news/p…
PA House to reconvene for session on second-degree murder conviction sentencing guidelines

PA House to reconvene for session on second-degree murder conviction sentencing guidelines

Their summer break had begun but members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives are heading back to Harrisburg Thursday to try to iron out an agreement with the state Senate

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Residents in #Bucks community want #EnergyTransfer and #SunocoPipeline to step up cleanup of 6,500 gallon spill under their neighborhood. buckscountyherald.com/news/a…
Alternate water supply absent from Sunoco jet fuel cleanup plan in Upper Makefield

Alternate water supply absent from Sunoco jet fuel cleanup plan in Upper Makefield

On Wednesday at Crossing Church in Upper Makefield, Energy Transfer/Sunoco representatives listened as residents and officials described problems they face due to about 6,500 gallons of jet fuel...

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Double #rail trouble as a #SEPTA train derails in #Philadelphia after #CSX train accident in #Bucks County. buckscountyherald.com/news/p…
Freight train derails in Trevose Tuesday; No hazardous materials leaked

Freight train derails in Trevose Tuesday; No hazardous materials leaked

A freight train derailed in Bensalem near the Neshaminy Falls Train Station Tuesday, Bensalem police reported. Some 16 cars on the 72-car train derailed, including two that were carrying hazardous

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#CongressmanBrianFitzpatrick and #FoxNews #WhiteHouse Senior Correspondent #JacquiHeinrich wed at #St.Patrick's Cathedral in New York. buckscountyherald.com/news/u…
U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick weds

U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick weds

U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick married Fox News’ senior White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich Saturday at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York.

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The first #elementaryschool named for #WaltDisney celebrates its 70th anniversary in #Bucks County. buckscountyherald.com/news/w…
Walt Disney's first namesake school turns 70

Walt Disney's first namesake school turns 70

At a Friday ceremony, Pennsbury Superintendent Thomas Smith told Walt Disney Elementary students that when their school was named for the famed animator, all of America noticed. “This was the

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#Pennsbury breaks ground on its new high school! buckscountyherald.com/news/b…
"Building a future": Pennsbury breaks ground on $269.5M high school in Falls

"Building a future": Pennsbury breaks ground on $269.5M high school in Falls

After years of planning and hours of meetings within Pennsbury School District offices and with the public — including some who vocally opposed the project — construction of the almost

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#Pa. Gov. #JoshShapiro rallied #Democrats after primary election Tuesday at rally in #BucksCounty. buckscountyherald.com/news/e…
At The Fuge in Warminster, Shapiro launches Democrats' November campaign

At The Fuge in Warminster, Shapiro launches Democrats' November campaign

Hundreds of cheering Democrats welcomed Gov. Josh Shapiro to The Fuge in Warminster Tuesday night. It wasn’t so much a primary election victory lap, as Shapiro and his running mate

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#Toll subsidiary plans to build $1.7 million plus homes on site formerly owned by #DeLuca subsidiary in #LowerMakefield, #Bucks County. buckscountyherald.com/news/d…
DeLuca sells Wright farm project in Lower Makefield to Toll Brothers subsidiary

DeLuca sells Wright farm project in Lower Makefield to Toll Brothers subsidiary

A DeLuca Homes subsidiary has sold the former Wright farm, located in Lower Makefield off the Newtown Bypass, to a Toll Brothers subsidiary for nearly $20 million. Toll plans to

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For some #JeffersonHealth patients, the #harp helps ease #hospital visits. buckscountyherald.com/news/h…
For patients at Jefferson hospitals, the harp helps

For patients at Jefferson hospitals, the harp helps

Edie Elkan and musicians with her Langhorne-based Bedside Harp are fixtures at Thomas Jefferson hospitals around the region because the staff has come to recognize the power of music as

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In preparation for 25th anniversary of #Sept11 #Bucks' most affected township plans early evening ceremony not to conflict with #RoshHashanah. buckscountyherald.com/news/w…
With Rosh Hashanah on 9-11, Lower Makefield tries for candlelight compromise

With Rosh Hashanah on 9-11, Lower Makefield tries for candlelight compromise

Remaining members of the 25th anniversary committee that's planning 9-11 remembrance ceremonies in Lower Makefield on Monday endorsed an earlier evening candlelight ceremony that would end before...

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#LowerMakefield residents in #Bucks ponder how to mark 25th anniversary of #9-11 when it takes place on #RoshHashanah. buckscountyherald.com/news/c…
Confluence of 9/11, Rosh Hashanah claims three members of remembrance committee

Confluence of 9/11, Rosh Hashanah claims three members of remembrance committee

Lower Makefield is asking its 9/11 25th Remembrance Committee to hold its traditional Sept. 11 evening candlelight vigil ceremony at the Garden of Reflection in the afternoon to avoid conflicting

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#PrickettPreserve shopping center in #LowerMakefield in #Bucks is for sale. buckscountyherald.com/news/b…
Prickett Preserve for sale in Lower Makefield

Prickett Preserve for sale in Lower Makefield

Prickett Preserve, the Lower Makefield shopping center with the new Wegmans supermarket as a major tenant, has been put up for sale, according to a listing on a commercial real

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#MaeKrier, who worked to get the #CongressionalGoldMedal for women who worked as #RosietheRiveters, celebrated her 100th birthday Sat. buckscountyherald.com/news/a…
At 100, Mae Krier still a riveting figure in the fight to honor Rosies

At 100, Mae Krier still a riveting figure in the fight to honor Rosies

Mae Krier's birthday, now known as “National Rosie the Riveter Day," brings another chance for the Levittown resident to honor the hard-working women, who like herself, built the bombers and

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#Harvard professor from #Ukraine gives interesting talk about #nuclear issues in conflicts during visit to #LaSalle University. buckscountyherald.com/news/a…
At La Salle, Cold War historian from Ukraine confronts politics of nuclear power

At La Salle, Cold War historian from Ukraine confronts politics of nuclear power

Serhii Plokhy grew up in Ukraine and was there during the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster in 1986. He is now a Harvard professor and considered one of the world’s leading

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#Yardley #Refillery receives #LowerMakefield #environmental award for saving 92,000 containers from #landfills. buckscountyherald.com/news/b…
Yardley Refillery honored for environmental stewardship

Yardley Refillery honored for environmental stewardship

Since its September 2023 opening, Yardley Refillery estimates it has kept 92,000 containers out of landfills. Its owners, in February, earned the Environmental Stewardship Award given by the Lower...

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