Styer Orchards is a beloved institution in Lower Bucks.
Kids who grew up here will tell you about their first school trip to the orchard and if they re old enough they ll tell you about making their own cider on the old press. Families flock there on October weekends for pumpkins and apples. And their cider doughnuts are a treat any time of the year and their pies are a staple on many holiday tables here.
But, a new lease agreement approved last week peels back that warm narrative, revealing and reopening a 20-year feud between the two families that have run the orchard and farm market on the township-owned property.
Motiv8 s new facilities
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Manx Lottery Trust has provided funding of £25,000 to support Motiv8 Addiction Services as demand continues to grow for its services.
Last year hundreds attended its group sessions and there was a total of 3,359 counselling sessions this year.
To accommodate the growing number of clients and create more space for the sessions, the organisation has moved to premises in Woodbourne Road, Douglas, from Mount Havelock.
The charity now has a dedicated children and young persons’ room, a groupwork stand-alone suite and eight counselling rooms.
Motiv8 also helps parents, people with mental health problems and clients with drug and drink addictions in both groups and one-to-one counselling.
News from the courts
A 43-year-old motorist has admitted causing serious bodily harm by driving without due care after an accident left a pedestrian with a brain injury.
Martin Huxley, of Brookhill Road, Ramsey, hit the man at a pedestrian crossing in Woodbourne Road in Douglas while driving his Citroen Berlingo van.
The victim suffered a bleed on the brain and was said to have had severe seizures in hospital.
He was also left with a broken nose, fractured cheekbone and fractured eye socket.
Huxley will be sentenced on January 26 after a probation report has been completed.
Prosecuting advocate Hazel Carroon told the court that Huxley was driving his van on October 12 at 4.30pm on Woodbourne Road towards St Ninian’s.
Man who hit pedestrian to be sentenced next month
Ramsey man who hit a pedestrian on a crossing will be sentenced next month.
Forty-two-year-old Martin Huxley of Brookhill Road appeared before High Bailiff Jayne Hughes at Douglas courthouse.
He pleaded guilty to one count of causing serious bodily harm by driving without due care and attention.
Prosecution advocate Hazel Caroon told the court Huxley was driving a Citroen Berlingo along Woodbourne Road in Douglas at around 4.30pm on 12 October.
A man who d been studying at the Isle of Man College was crossing the road using a pedestrian crossing when Huxley hit him.
Bucks County stepping up for Give A Christmas
James Boyle
Thanksgiving 2020 was supposed to be like every other year for the Bucks County Roadrunners.
The local running group had just come off the 30th anniversary of its Customers Bank Thanksgiving Five Miler, attracting the most racers ever and raising more than $15,000 for three local charities.
This year was promising to be even bigger, but the COVID-19 pandemic happened and the race was canceled.
“We had a lot of meetings during the pandemic,” said Bill Schaffling, president of the BCRR. “We tried to think of any way we could have the race, but it was just not possible because of the physical location. We would not be able to keep everyone separated.”