Emily Brooks
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Manayunk’s St. John the Baptist celebrates 185 years
A pristine blue sky provided the perfect backdrop to Manayunk’s St. John the Baptist Church last week as parishioners and community ...
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Northwest Philadelphia remembers one of their own, musician Richard Drueding
The Philadelphia music community will celebrate the loss of a talented guitarist, composer, mentor and friend on Thursday at Rittenhouse ...
9 years ago
Free Library says Mt. Airy closure will transform Lovett into ‘premiere’ neighborhood library
Just about every seat was filled in the meeting room of Lovett Memorial Library on Monday evening, as residents and library goers attende ...
9 years ago
Tavern on Ridge to open at former Cornerstone Inn in Roxborough
The Roxborough community has a new addition coming to Ridge Avenue this month. Tavern on Ridge is slated to open this month, said Michael ...
9 years ago
Woodmere hosts prints from six Philly-area schools in new exhibit
Prints Link Philadelphia, a coalition of community arts organizations, museums and schools with a mission to educate and promote printmak ...
9 years ago
Mt. Airy’s Read & Eat expands to Roxborough
The Ridge Avenue commercial corridor has a new business to boast. The Roxborough Read & Eat is nowopen at the former Crossroads Cafe ...
9 years ago
Germantown Pathmark to close within the month
In July of this year news broke that grocery store chain A&P was filing for bankruptcy for the second time in just five years. The A& ...
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Free Library initiative to ‘cluster’ libraries to better address community needs
It’s been more than two years since Mt. Airy learned Lovett Memorial Library had been selected as a prototype branch in the Free Li ...
9 years ago
Owners of Mt. Airy’s Earth Bread + Brewery expand to Spring Garden
Construction is under way at 1720 Fairmount Avenue in the Spring Garden section of Philadelphia, where Mt. Airy’s Tom Baker and Peg ...
9 years ago
Former Daily News reporter to open yoga therapy clinic in Roxborough
Fifteen years ago Theresa Conroy was a reporter at the Philadelphia Daily News. The demands of the job were stressful. She smoked ...
10 years ago
Northwest Philly residents hear about reaping opportunity from vacant lots
The Nicetown Community Development Corporation hosted an information session Thursday to introduce residents to the newly established Phi ...
10 years ago
Biker legend of Northwest Philly ‘lives his art’
Anyone who has lived or worked in Northwest Philaelphia over the past five years has likely come across Cecil Degarr at one time or anoth ...
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