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Missed connections with Jesus, from a Girard Avenue strip club to the King of Prussia Mall

I first visited Kensington during the winter of 1992. I didn’t want to be there. I remember stepping out of a white van with ...

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First Experience: South Pacific

South Pacific is a Rogers and Hammerstein classic with timeless music and a great love story, and it’s the ...

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Warm, damp weather brings Roxborough toads out in droves

“Are they out yet?” a driver yelled out the window of a tomato-colored Scion, addressing the group of volunteers at the inter ...

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Penn Charter contributes to PIFA’s “If She Stood” exhibit

For William Penn Charter School 11th-graders and their teachers, the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts was an unexpected ch ...

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Collingswood Public Library prepares for its fall book festival

In an era of The Kindle and IPad the fact public libraries have had to adapt or die. In Collingswood, N.J. the library plays an important ...

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Family of missing New Jersey college student continues to hope for her safe return

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Fee hikes figure in Pa. lawmakers’ transportation funding plan

The long-awaited legislative follow-up to Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett’s own transportation funding plan is expected to be announc ...

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April 16: Boston aftermath | PA tax extension | gentrification relief | envision City Branch Park | SugarHouse settles illegal dumping claim | Fishtown made

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Philly Tech Week’s plannerly side

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Technical.ly Philly: With 10,000 jobs, will the Navy Yard stand on its own as an innovation hub?

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AxisPhilly launches Schoolhousewatch.org, hub for ideas and accountability

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PhillyCarShare is now Enterprise CarShare

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Zoning bill designed to shape development of city’s Delaware River master plan goals introduced

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Parenting after tragedy strikes: A retrospective

Today was a sad and scary day. My heart is grieving for those hurt and killed in Boston. Aching for their families and friends, heavy for ...

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