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Clean-up efforts continue outside Germantown Town Hall
Allison Weiss rushed over to the corner of an overgrown garden space on the Haines Street side of the old Germantown Town Hall this weeke ...
12 years ago
Planned smoking ban for N.J. beaches/parks won’t be 100 percent
For many New Jersey residents, there are few things more relaxing than enjoying the state’s beaches and parks. Lawmakers are decidi ...
12 years ago
Dad to get life for tossing daughter into creek
A New Jersey man who tossed his 2-year-old daughter into a creek while she was strapped into her car seat is expected to be sentenced Wed ...
12 years ago
N.J. students told to delete nude selfies or face the consequences
Students in a central New Jersey school district have been told to delete nude photos of themselves and classmates from their cellphones ...
12 years ago
University: Poet, author Maya Angelou dies at 86
Author and poet Maya Angelou, who rose from poverty, segregation and violence to become a force on stage, screen and the printed page, ha ...
12 years ago
Backdoor cold front arrives, brings much cooler air
A backdoor cold front swept into the area from New England early Wednesday morning, dropping temperatures nearly 30 degrees in some locat ...
12 years ago
Harrisburg fighting blight with public art
A new initiative will try to use blight as a vehicle for displaying artwork in Pennsylvania’s capital city. Instead of plain ply ...
12 years ago
Citibank’s Chelten Plaza branch closes two years after much-ballyhooed grand opening
At Citibank’s “Germantown Lending Center” grand-opening gathering ...
12 years ago
The bipartisan betrayal of America’s war vets
Before we fault President Obama for the latest service failures at the Department of Veterans Affairs – and he indeed deserves blam ...
12 years ago
Mt. Airy-based food anthropologist studies middle-class eating habits locally
Anthropologists don’t typically examine average middle-class American life. Immigrant populations, religious minorities, even hunter/ga ...
12 years ago
Northwest Philly respite center gives homeless men a place to get better
Homeless men discharged from area hospitals after serious injuries or illnesses have a new place to convalesce. Philadelphia’ ...
12 years ago
ListenSmall steps towards a study of combining police forces in Dauphin County
Dauphin County’s examination of a regional police department is entering the formal stage. Commissioner Mike Pries first broached t ...
12 years ago
Review: Getting to know each other in ‘Chapter Two’
In Neil Simon’s semi-autobiographical play “Chapter Two,” we’re asked to believe that two people in a whirlwind l ...
12 years ago
Downed tree cleared, SEPTA train service restored
Train service is back on SEPTA’s entire Norristown High Speed Line following earlier shuttle bus service between Radnor Station and ...
12 years ago
Write-in challenger takes GOP primary, but Fleck gets Dems’ nod in Pa.
Pennsylvania’s first openly gay state lawmaker says he nearly lost his re-election effort because of voters’ reaction to his ...
12 years ago



