Set back off Route 313 in Doylestown, the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works is both a famous landmark and a leaky old building in need of repair.
Ceramic artist Katia McGuirk got what she wanted Wednesday when the Bucks County commissioners authorized a license for her nonprofit to run the building s operations for the next 30 years.
As a former employee there, McGuirk knows well what she is undertaking.
Like a homebuyer who can see past an old house s cracks and creaks to envision the beautiful home it once was and could be again, McGuirk wants to restore the old tile works both physically and reputation wise, as she brings the tile-making process undertaken there into the 21st century while retaining its close association with the Arts & Crafts Movement its tiles helped promote 100 years ago.
A group of 13 Hatboro-Horsham School District parents has filed a lawsuit against the district and five school board members over the lack of an in-person instructional choice.
The district had started a hybrid option for a brief time but stopped when Montgomery County ordered a two-week return to all-virtual instruction at all county schools Nov. 23. Hatboro-Horsham currently is offering only all-remote instruction and is not scheduled to add hybrid back in until Jan. 11.
Hybrid is a mix of classroom and remote instruction.
The lawsuit filed in Montgomery County Court names the district, school board President Jennifer Wilson and fellow board members Susan Hunsinger-Hoff, Theresa Brown, David Brown and Denise Schultz as defendants.