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Construction advances at new Youth Study Center site
It’s a steel-gray morning, and the streets around 48th and Haverford are just beginning to dry out after a fierce late-summer thund ...
15 years ago
Community Lunch event highlights sustainable urban farming
On Monday, more than 100 people gathered at Martin Luther King Jr. High School to celebrate local food production with Seeds for Learning ...
15 years ago
Giant paint brush now part of Philadelphia’s outdoor art scene
On Saturday, Philadelphia newest public sculpture was installed at Broad and Cherry Streets. On Monday many people working in Cent ...
15 years ago
Philadelphia Orchestra to add more performances to the season
Yannick Nezet-Seguin, the Orchestra’s music director designate, says he will conduct more performances than previously scheduled to ...
15 years ago
Delaware group discusses child mental health needs
Delaware, particularly the southern part of the state, has a huge shortage of mental health professionals, experts told a study group est ...
15 years ago
Mayor Nutter helped raise Ackerman’s buyout money
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter says he helped raise money to buy out the contract of school superintendent Arlene Ackerman. ...
15 years ago
Is it a crime? Nope, just business
“Is it a crime?” was the musical question Philadelphia School Superintendent Arlene Ackerman asked last week when she staged ...
15 years ago
Postal worker ambushed by paintball-gun wielding thugs in Germantown
A 50-year-old postal worker was working his route on the 500 block of Manheim St. in Germantown Saturday afternoon when three men armed w ...
15 years ago