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Pick up a bag of books for $5 at Falls Library this weekend
This Saturday, the Falls of Schuylkill Library will host its Autumn Book Sale from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Patrons can take as many books ...
15 years ago
Fighting kitchen-phobia at the Food Bank of Delaware
On November 24, I host Thanksgiving for the first time. Am I scared? Nah. Don’t get me wrong. This time last year, I would be runni ...
15 years ago
Future of high-speed rail in Pa. debated
While federal lawmakers have put an end to U.S. funding for President Barack Obama’s national high-speed rail program next year, it ...
15 years ago
Christie pushes more ‘tool kit’ items for N.J. property tax relief
Gov. Chris Christie wants the lame duck session of the New Jersey Legislature to enact more measures to control property taxes. In ...
15 years ago
Local race car museum finishes first worldwide
Dr. Fred Simeone, whose Simeone Museum in Philadelphia has been open since 2008, can now boast his museum is the best of its kind in the ...
15 years ago
Viola video installation at PAFA evokes mystery of passage
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts has added a new, major work to its contemporary art collection: the meditative, 90-minute video ...
15 years ago
A beautiful mind: Einstein’s brain samples on display at Mutter
Philadelphia’s Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians just added a bit of genius to its collection of medical oddities. ...
15 years ago
Charter school teachers could also be subject to new Pa. evaluation
A tweak to a state proposal to change teacher evaluations would make the new rubric apply not just to Pennsylvania’s public schools ...
15 years ago