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Roxborough High principal Stephen Brandt will step down in July [Updated]

Update: 3 p.m. Roxborough Assistant Principal Dana Jenkins will be the school’s principal next school year. ...

13 years ago

Dewey Beach starts enforcing smoking ban

Dewey Beach is starting to enforce a new beach smoking ban, but town lifeguards are taking a soft approach. The Dewey Beach Patrol ...

13 years ago

Barnegat Bay Festival highlights need to protect & restore fragile ecosystem

An annual festival that highlights the importance of protecting the Barnegat Bay estuary and its watershed took on special meaning this y ...

13 years ago

Cab driver shot in East Mt. Airy early Tuesday while on duty [updated]

  A 53-year-old cab driver is in serious but stable condition after being shot in his arm by a passenger last night in Mt. Ai ...

13 years ago

Wildwood would lose its mojo with baggy-pants ban

This is commentary from political blogger and cartoonist Rob Tornoe. In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, I thought beach town ...

13 years ago

National Interest

Chris Christie’s twisty trek to 2016

Updated at the bottom. Chris Christie is already on notice, from denizens of the right-wing echo chamber, that he’s ...

13 years ago

N.J. equestrian center taking donations for Oklahoma victims

An equestrian center in Logan, N.J. is having a donation drive for victims of the Oklahoma tornadoes, ...

13 years ago

 Jill Weber, owner of Jet Wine Bar on South Street, offers an array of exotic wines, imported from  Hungary, Greece and Macedonia as well as Italy and France. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)
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A taste of premium Greek wines helps expand palates in Philly

When Americans think about good wine, we’re usually quick to think about France or California, but wineries span the globe. One ove ...

13 years ago

Education

After five years and two strikes, Neshaminy teachers ratify new contract

A five-year labor impasse between a Bucks County school district and its teachers union appears to be all but over. On Monday nigh ...

13 years ago

Philly Parenting

Creative Philly Mamas

  When the summer days of childhood are full of  ...

13 years ago

Gourmet cupcake boutique opens new store in Manayunk

A new cupcake boutique named *ndulge opened last week at 4373 Main street in Manayunk. Found ...

13 years ago

Time to save the baby toads on Port Royal Avenue

It was a hot Saturday night in Roxborough, and the party was underway by dusk. “As soon as we put the barricade up, they sta ...

13 years ago

The final month: Class of ’62 grad says GHS teachers opened ‘a new world’ for him

Marvin J. Rudolph, Ph.D is an independent food-science consultant who lives in the ...

13 years ago

Shapiro on Theater
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Review: A tough all-nighter in ‘Barcelona’

The new play “Barcelona,” at People’s Light & Theatre Company in Malvern, is like Las Ramblas, that city’s fa ...

13 years ago

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Holmesburg, Somerton get citywide spotlight

13 years ago

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