A new trail will offer Delaware Valley School students expanded opportunities in environmental science and conservation education. The trail is funded in part by Greater Pike Community Foundation’s Richard L. Snyder Chair of Conservation Studies Fund. New Greater Pike Fund focuses on conservation education The late Richard L. (Dick) Snyder, local philanthropist and conservationist, aimed to maintain local woodlands and waterways... Home 05 Dec 2022 | 10:08
Hand-carved bird houses at the Festival of Wood sponsored by the Grey Towers Heritage Association ( Photos by Marilyn Rosenthal) Women’s visions at Grey Towers Cornelia Bryce Pinchot, wife of conservationist Gifford Pinchot, was not only a conservationist herself, but also a progressive... Home 17 Oct 2022 | 08:32
Fire tower near Grey Towers ( Photo by Linda Perlman Fields) Fire tower by Grey Towers: more history to explore Visitors to Grey Towers National Historic Site are offered a twofer: natural beauty surrounding the mansion of Gifford Pinchot,... Home 28 Sep 2022 | 05:41
Len Cariou and Heather Summerhayes Cariou ‘Blue Bloods’ Star to Appear Opening Night of Milford Readers & Writers Festival Tony Award-winner Len Cariou, currently featured on the hit TV series “Blue Bloods,” will join his wife Heather Summerhayes... Home 14 Sep 2022 | 10:22
Milford’s future To the editor: We all love Milford for different reasons. It is a diamond in the rough. Whether you are a native and have... Letters to the Editor 06 Jul 2022 | 07:41
Flyfishing with Gifford Pinchot Many know of Gifford Pinchot as an eminent conservation thinker of the early 20th century, the first Chief of the US Forest... Sports 27 Apr 2022 | 11:00
Grey Towers Heritage Association has new president and acting director The Greatest Good Legacy Continues Gifford Pinchot, a previous Pennsylvania governor, is known to have said: “The vast possibilities... Local News 27 Apr 2022 | 10:44
Empire Wild (Photo provided) ‘Extremely exploratory’ young trio to perform at Grey Towers “We are returning to our birthplace 20 years ago!” says the invite from Kindred Spirits Arts Program. Their next offering... Entertainment 04 Aug 2021 | 01:04
President John F. Kennedy with Dr. and Mrs. Pinchot at the Finger Bowl at Grey Towers in Milford, where Kennedy declared Gifford Pinchot to be “more than a forester, he was the father of American Conservation.” (Photo: U.S. Forest Service, Grey Towers National Historic Site) Bill Kiger Community Cleanup Day is part of a long legacy When Atlantic Magazine called Milford “the prettiest county seat in America,” in the early 1960s, it wasn’t an achievement... Letters to the Editor 01 Apr 2021 | 01:56
My rendition of Lake Milford using the boundaries of Zone 2 of the springs (Sketch by Vito DiBiasi) Lake Milford and the ‘Gray Zone’ To the Editor: I want to make you aware that the Milford Springs are in danger from an expansion of an RC Zone in Dingman... Letters to the Editor 10 Mar 2021 | 02:35
"Heavy Metal," Randall FitzGerald ( Randall FitzGerald) Rural America celebrated in new ARTery Gallery exhibit In October, the ARTery Gallery in Milford presents the annual exhibit of two of its longtime members, Randall FitzGerald... Entertainment 14 Oct 2020 | 10:46
A "no sewer" sign in Milford (Photo by Frances Ruth Harris) Let’s review where we are on the Milford sewer issue To the Editor: For a while now, those of us under the Pike Citizens for Responsible Growth (PCRG) umbrella have been commenting... Letters to the Editor 30 Sep 2020 | 09:57
The Quicktown Cemetery in Milford (Photo by Frances Ruth Harris) Ancient cemetery to get some tender care Fran Stoveken plans to spruce up The Quicktown Cemetery, the circa 1826 cemetery that he owns, and where the long-ago ancestors... Local News 28 Sep 2020 | 11:53
Actors Joe and Therese Plummer at Grey Towers ( Photo provided) Tickets for holiday favorite at Grey Towers now on sale Tickets for the 39th annual dramatization of Charles Dickens’ "A Christmas Carol" at Grey Towers National Historic Site in... Entertainment 06 Nov 2019 | 04:58
From Left: Siobhan “Sam" Bennett, Eolwyn Corby, Tameko Patterson, and Mary Zimmerman at Grey Towers ( Photo: Marilyn Rosenthal) A league of their own: Panelists and public celebrate 100 years of women's suffrage The room at Grey Towers was filled with women of all ages and backgrounds, both on the panel and in the audience. Many fought... Local News 23 Oct 2019 | 02:53
