Grisly Scene At Montgomeryville Motel

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In This Week's Email:

• 📆 Upcoming Nearby Events

• 🚨 Two Found Dead In Montgomery

• 🏫 Souderton Elementary School Renovation

• 🗞️ News Links

• 🚒 Harleysville Fire Displaces Family

• 🪓 Alleged Upper Gwynedd Axe Threat Incident

• 🤝 More On Lansdale’s New Homeless Shelter

• 🏘️ In Other Nearby News

• 🏈 Play Ball

• 🐶 Rescue of the Week

• 📊 This Week’s Poll Question

📆 Upcoming Nearby Events

Tuesday, Dec. 31

• 🍺 New Year’s Eve Party | The Halligan Bar at North Penn Social Club in North Wales | 8 p.m. to 1 a.m., more details here

Saturday, Jan. 4

• ♟️Board Game Day | Lansdale Public Library | 12-4:30 p.m., more details here

Sunday, Jan. 5

• ❄️ Winter White Floral Arrangement | The Rhoads Garden in North Wales | 1-2 p.m., more details here

You can find a calendar of events for the towns in the NPN region by following these links: Franconia | Hatfield | Hilltown | Lansdale | Lower Salford | Montgomery Township | North Wales | Sellersville | Souderton | Telford | Towamencin | Upper Gwynedd

🚨 Two Found Dead In Montgomery

An emergency call to the Knights Inn on Bethlehem Pike in Montgomery Township led to a jarring discovery.

Two people were found dead inside a motel room around 11:15 a.m. on Saturday. Both people reportedly had gunshot wounds. The room’s outward-facing door was chain-locked from the inside and a witness claimed to have heard an argument earlier in the day. An investigation is underway, but details have been sparse so far.

🏫 Souderton Elementary School Renovation

The Souderton Area School District signed off on a $7.5 million plan to add onto and renovate West Broad Elementary School.

The project will include demolishing existing modular classrooms and adding onto the north side of the school building. The new construction will house a music room, bathrooms and both regular classrooms and small group instruction rooms; the new build will also be connected to the existing structure. The current building will also see upgrades.

🗞️ News Links

• Hatfield will get an intersection audit in the new year

• Three injured in Stump Road crash in Montgomery

• Big safety grants coming to North Penn, Souderton schools

• Telford man faces stalking, terroristic threats charges

• All charges dismissed in Lansdale hairspray can incident

🚒 Harleysville Fire Displaces Family

An apartment fire on Maple Avenue in Lower Salford has left a family of four in need of shelter. The cause of the Dec. 27 blaze has not yet been released and there were no injuries, but a couple, their two children and several pets have been displaced. A GoFundMe to assist the family can be found here.

🪓 Alleged Upper Gwynedd Axe Threat Incident

An Ocean City man who previously resided in Upper Gwynedd is being held on $2 million bail after a pair of November incidents in the township.

Police say Robert George Blue, 65, broke into a home, stole cash and a jewelry box, left an axe on a pillow and wrote threats on a window in nail polish. He faces a slew of felonies for those allegations as well as another unrelated incident.

🤝 More On Lansdale’s New Homeless Shelter

A new rapid rehousing facility recently opened on Main Street in Lansdale after Montgomery County executed a lease agreement. Mayor Gary Herbert submitted a column to NPN taking a closer look at how the facility will operate and what is planned for the space.

🏘️ In Other Nearby News

• A look at all the festive holiday light displays in the region

• You are running out of time to get your 2025 dog licenses

• Man wanted for Bucks County check fraud arrested in Miami

• WATCH: Heavy fire destroys detached garage in Doylestown

• Alleged bank robber from New York nabbed in Bensalem

To keep up with news outside the North Penn Now area, make sure to subscribe to the newsletters for our siblings sites — Central Bucks Now and Wiss Now.

🏈 Play Ball

• Matvei Michkov is being handled properly

• On the Saquon Barkley Week 18 discourse

• Jesus Luzardo is excited to be a Phil

• Sixers reportedly interested in Lonnie Walker IV

• Devan Kaney has replaced Howard Eskin

For more on local sports, subscribe to our Philly sports newsletter, On Pattison (sent 5x per week):

🐶 Rescue of the Week

Meet Periwinkle, a five- to nine-year-old pitbull looking for a forever home through Home At Last Dog Rescue. She is being fostered in the area after making her way up from South Carolina. Periwinkle is a happy girl who loves to meet new people. She is very sweet and loves to cuddle; Periwinkle is crate- and house-trained and great with older kids and other animals her own size. A fenced-in yard would be a great benefit in a new home, although not a requirement.

If you are interested in adopting Periwinkle or would like more information, you can reach out to Home At Last Dog Rescue at [email protected] or visit the group's website.

📊 This Week’s Poll Question

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