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Tenure overhaul advances in New Jersey
A New Jersey Senate committee has unanimously advanced a bill that would make teacher tenure harder to attain and easier to lose. One law ...
14 years ago
Mt. Airy BID spearheads collaborative effort to combat graffiti
In a bold effort to fight a recent scourge of graffiti, the Mt. Airy Business Improvement District (BID) organized a community meeting be ...
14 years ago
Chestnut Hill’s cobblestone replacement project to begin at 3 a.m. daily
PennDOT crews working along a stretch of Germantown Avenue in Chestnut Hill are now starting their shifts several hours earlier. F ...
14 years ago
Landlords might raise rent to cover property tax hikes
The giant, bouncing ball of AVI – that’s Mayor Nutter’s Actual Value Initiative, an attempt to make the propert ...
14 years ago
10 area cultural organizations get $2.1 million from Pew
In an effort to keep the area’s high-performing cultural organizations at their best, Pew has announced $2.1 million in funding for ...
14 years ago
Mayor Nutter officially opens the city’s pool season at Awbury Rec Center
It may have been a cool Monday afternoon, but that didn’t seem to bother several dozen children who waited patiently at the Awbury ...
14 years ago
Road construction underway in front of Houston Elementary in Mt. Airy
Road construction began this week on West Allens Lane in front of Henry H. Houston Elementary School in Mt. Airy. The Philade ...
14 years ago
In face of discouraging statistics, recent graduates flock to career fair
The great recession has hit young people in the labor market particularly hard. New numbers show recent grads still are looking for a l ...
14 years ago
Philadelphia pays utility bills for connected owner’s second eatery
Some people have all the luck. In May, “It’s Our Money” reported that taxpayers covered hundreds of thousands of ...
14 years ago
AMY Northwest school moves to Roxborough this week
The writing is on the wall at AMY Northwest middle school in East Mount Airy – literally. As students begin their first full wee ...
14 years ago
Extending hiring preferences to grandkids of fallen cops and firefighters
Philadelphia voters could have an opportunity this fall to give the grandchildren of police and firefighters who died in the line of duty ...
14 years ago
$2 million Powerball ticket sold in South Philadelphia
Someone found riches Saturday amid the Oregon Diner, Nuts to You and Payless. Whomever purchased the Powerball ticket with numbers ...
14 years ago
Potter’s Field meetings in Germantown cancelled until further notice
The small crowd which gathered at the Mt. Moriah Church in Germantown was disappointed Thursday night after a Philadelphia Housing Author ...
14 years ago
The Weavers Way blood drive will support Chestnut Hill Hospital. Radio station 95.7 BEN-FM will be on-sight offering a chance to win $100 ...
14 years ago
Jury may get Sandusky case by Thursday
The judge in the Jerry Sandusky child molestation trial called an early recess Monday, citing “technical difficulties” with t ...
14 years ago