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Teens feel lost during the coronavirus pandemic. (Mikyung Lee for NPR)
NPR
Mental Health
Public Health

With senior year in disarray, teens and young adults feel lost. Here’s how to help

For many young people sheltering at home means missing milestones and public recognition of their achievements.

5 years ago

Wine and Spirits store in Philadelphia
Food & Drink
Pennsylvania
Public Health

Some Pa. wine and spirits stores to offer curbside pickup Monday

Pa. residents will have one more way to buy wine and liquor starting Monday. Here’s how to do it and a list of the new curbside pickup locations.

5 years ago

(Kalim A. Bhatti/The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Pennsylvania
Public Health
Spotlight PA

The backlash against the quarantine has begun in Pennsylvania, with anti-shutdown rally Monday in Harrisburg

Everyone wants life to get back to normal, to have their hair cut or get a sunburn at a baseball game, to go to work, and walk shoulder-to-shoulder in a park.

5 years ago

A Barnegat Bay scene from 2012. (Courtesy of Jennifer Husar)
Down the Shore
New Jersey
Outdoors
Public Health

N.J. marinas can operate only with ‘strict social distancing, sanitization’

As boating season nears in New Jersey, marinas, boatyards, and marine manufactures will be allowed to operate amid the ongoing pandemic.

5 years ago

No work, no service at this restaurant. (Credit: Daniel Case via Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0)
Economy
New Jersey
NJ Spotlight

Last week’s 140,000 unemployment claims ‘mercifully’ low, but total exceeds 700,000 since mid-March

New filings ramping up faster than even during Great Depression, as residents in all but a few industries stay at home as directed

5 years ago

Signs are posted throughout the conservatories and in all buildings at Longwood Gardens where essential staff are working during the coronavirus shutdown. (Courtesy of Longwood Gardens/Carol Gross)
Business
Pennsylvania

Small staff left to maintain Longwood Gardens during shutdown

In a typical year, a staff of hundreds work to keep plants and trees at Longwood Gardens looking beautiful. This year, a small crew is focused on just keeping them alive.

5 years ago

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Philadelphia Folk Festival founder Gene Shay tips his hat to an adoring audience. (Jonathan Wilson for NewsWorks)
Music
Philadelphia
Public Health

Philly folk giant, former radio DJ Gene Shay dies at 85 from the coronavirus

Co-founder of the Philadelphia Folk Festival, Shay hosted a weekly show on several stations over a long career. WHYY-FM was his home for about 15 years.

5 years ago

Volunteers at Sandy Hook for Clean Ocean Action's Spring Beach Sweep in April 2019. (Courtesy of Clean Ocean Action)
Down the Shore
Environment
New Jersey

Volunteers removed nearly 500,000 pieces of debris from N.J. beaches in 2019

According to the Sandy Hook-based organization’s 2019 Beach Sweeps annual report, 10,744 volunteers collected, tallied, and removed debris from New Jersey beaches.

5 years ago

Some homes in the 3700 block of North 15th Street, where six Philadelphia police officers were wounded during a shoot out in August, still have the bullet holes. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Economy
Income Inequality
Billy Penn

Stimulus could heighten racial economic inequality, historians warn

Like the New Deal and G.I. Bill before it, the latest federal attempt to juice the economy will play out unevenly.

5 years ago

First State Ballet Theatre company dancer and faculty member Jessi Eizember teaches a children's ballet class on Zoom. (Courtesy of Traci Eizember)
Delaware
Sports

Dance, fitness instructors help students adapt their homes to keep moving in quarantine

Dance, sports and fitness instructors are helping their students stay fit in quarantine with Zoom, dining room chairs and prizes to keep them motivated.

5 years ago

Alana Dean at Mill Creek Park In Willingboro, New Jersey. (Courtesy of Alana Dean)
New Jersey
Public Health

As coronavirus hits Willingboro hard in South Jersey, residents revamp daily life

The predominantly African American suburb has had more cases than much of South Jersey.

5 years ago

A produce market at 10th and Cherry streets is one of the few businesses still open in Chinatown. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Immigration
Public Health
Race & Ethnicity

Volunteers needed to translate coronavirus help for Philly area Asian Americans

Organizations that serve Asian American and Pacific Islander communities in the Philly region want to connect 10,000 households in Pa. to resources.

5 years ago

Njeri Harris shops for produce at the Landisdale Farm stand at Clark Park on April 11, 2020. Harris says that the lines enforcing social distancing are
PlanPhilly
Food & Drink
Public Health

Farmers markets may be your safest bet for food shopping during the coronavirus pandemic

Health experts say the new rules governing Pa. farmers markets have made the open-air grocery destinations safer than other options.

5 years ago

Shoppers at the Whitman Plaza Shoprite in South Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Why
Food & Drink
Philadelphia
Public Health

Grocery workers: ‘We didn’t sign up to be heroes’

The federal government has given little guidance on how grocery stores should operate during the pandemic, leaving a patchwork of protections from businesses and states.

Air Date: April 16, 2020

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Liquor store. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
Business
Food & Drink
Public Health

Pennsylvania to use liquor stores for online fulfillment

Workers will be back on the job at more than 100 shuttered state-owned liquor stores to help process online orders, Pennsylvania's liquor agency said Thursday.

5 years ago

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