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Changing Communities

Marvin and Linda Worthy have been fighting for racial justice for years in Chambersburg, Pa. They've been encouraged to see the protest movement of the summer garner significant attention locally.(Dani Fresh/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

The BLM movement found support in red, rural Pa. What will it mean for voting?

Protests happened across rural Pa., including Franklin County — elevating political fault lines and fractured alliances that have been lying beneath the surface.

5 months ago

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Chambersburg, Pa. (Jeffrey Stockbridge for Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Reopening economy in a COVID-19 hotspot stresses doctors in rural Pa.

Businesses are hurt. Unemployment is unprecedented. But coronavirus cases in this rural Pa. town have still been spiking. Now, as restrictions ease, hospitals could be tested.

9 months ago

Cars line up at a drive-thru coronavirus test station in the parking lot at Citizens Bank Park.
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Life during coronavirus: the Pennsylvania shutdown in pictures

Across the state, Pennsylvanians are trying to adjust to a new normal. Life in our homes, our public spaces, and our economy looks much different than it did mere weeks ago.

12 months ago

Bridesburg is a proud working-class safe haven in Philadelphia that rarely makes the police blotter. Can it overcome its reputation of being exclusionary, and sometimes racist? (Bastiaan Slabbers for Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Philly border fight: How a ‘secret’ working-class neighborhood built its own wall

Bridesburg is a working-class safe haven in Philly that rarely makes the police blotter. But it has a reputation of being exclusionary, and sometimes racist.

1 year ago

Listen 14:00
Lance Walker with a customer at his barbershop in Chambersburg, Pa. (Jeffrey Stockbridge for Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

A barber breaking the bubble: Trump voter with ‘buyer’s remorse’ seeks conversations of ‘grace and mercy’

At this barbershop in Chambersburg, Pa., red, blue and other come together for conversations of political ‘grace and mercy.’

1 year ago

Listen 5:20
Fredy Garcia Morales and his mom Margarita talk to his sisters on the phone while sitting in the King Street Ministry Center in Chambersburg, Pa. (Jeffrey Stockbridge for Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Speaking Mam in MAGA country: Immigration, education and the teenage boy in the middle

Where low-wage immigrant labor undergirds the local economy, stress is put on other institutions — especially public schools, which face a mandate to educate all.

1 year ago

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Longer working hours, longer commutes and the rise of dual-income households have left less time for volunteer firefighting. (Bas Slabbers for Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

‘So tragic’: Volunteer firefighter shortage threatens Pa. traditions and public safety

Mike Kitsock never thought he’d still be fighting fires as a sexagenarian. ...

1 year ago

Listen 5:19
Brothers Andrew Barrow and Ronald Stanley 'Stosh' Webb (right) have been on a mission to fight racism in Schuylkill County. Is it working? (Bas Slabbers for Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

‘Cancel culture’ in Coal Country: Two Trump-voting brothers on a mission to fight racism

After experiencing overtly racist behavior by a quasi-public official, two brothers are on a crusade for accountability. Will anyone in their community care?

1 year ago

Listen 7:56
Eat Spice co-owners Vamsi Yaramaka, left, and Raj Alturu stand inside at their truck stop on route 534 off I-80 in White Haven, Pennsylvania. The restaurant offers dishes that are hard to find amid typical American fast food fare. (Matt Smith for Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Far from home, new wave of immigrant truckers find comfort food along Pa. highways

Indian restaurants have been popping up along truck stops along major shipping routes in the United States, offering comfort foods to a new wave of drivers.

1 year ago

Listen 4:07
Democratic mayoral candidate Eddie Moran is looking to become the first Latinx mayor of Reading, which has a majority latinx population. (Matt Smith for Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

‘History in the making’: Reading expected to elect first Latinx mayor

It’s a milestone in the decades-long transformation from industrial, white working-class roots to a majority Latinx city trying to redefine itself.

1 year ago

Listen 4:32
Zenaida Bautista, Jose Cabañas, and their daughters Jannet and Audrey, at their home in Ambler. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Pa. parents with severely ill or disabled kids face deportation after Trump policy change

Recipients of the letters included parents of extremely sick children born in the U.S. and children receiving treatment for cancer, some of whom live in Pa.

1 year ago

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Martin Tower, the former headquarters of Bethlehem Steel, is shown days before a planned implosion. (Matt Smith for Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Implosion of former Bethlehem Steel HQ highlights changing face of the Lehigh Valley

Bethlehem Steel built a skyscraper in the 1970s, just ahead of the industry's collapse. The tower sat mostly vacant for a decade, but the city found other ways to revitalize.

2 years ago

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Bethany Coursen and her husbands own the Valleywide Farm in Centre County. Coursen said last year's rain has a lasting impact on her farm. (Min Xian / Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Still reeling from 2018 rainfall, Pa. farmers offered emergency USDA loan

Pennsylvania had one of the wettest summers on record last year. The intense rainfall and flooding caused farmers across the state to lose significant crops.

2 years ago

Attendants watch the showcase of a live video conference during an open house event at the Northern Pennsylvanian Regional College in Warren, Pa. (Photo by Min Xian/Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Challenged by college cost and access, students in rural Pa. find tech-based alternative

Students in rural Pennsylvania face two big obstacles to college completion: cost and access. A new college is out to change that.

2 years ago

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman asks for a show of hands with all in favor of adult recreational use marijuana at the conclusion of a listening session on recreational marijuana with community members Mar. 2, 2019, at Penn State Scranton in Dunmore, Pennsylvania. (Matt Smith for WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Support for legal marijuana defies party politics in Pa. — among residents, not lawmakers

With signals from the Wolf administration, momentum is building for legalizing marijuana in Pennsylvania, but top lawmakers have vowed to block the effort.

2 years ago

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