Laura Benshoff
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Temple, Penn evaluating if ‘responsible fatherhood’ programs are worth the millions spent on them
Lots of groups try to instill “responsible fatherhood” in young dads and tens of millions of dollars of government grants hav ...
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Discovery fills gap in fossil record between fins, limbs
Our understanding of how animals began to walk on all fours just took a big step, or stroke, forward. New research on the first pe ...
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ListenHealth groups urge breast awareness among women
Many women first heard about “breast self-exam” in college. Lots of university student health centers still hand out pamphlet ...
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Favorite NW Philly youth-sports coaches: Jacqueline and Andrew Urbine, East Falls soccer
When Jacqueline and Andrew Urbine moved away from East Falls this spring, they left behind a flourishing youth soccer program in Northwes ...
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Newly declared park land in East Mt. Airy to hold first official cleanup Saturday
Six acres of brand new park lan ...
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Jobs, cooperation and future development the focus of Bakers Centre ceremonial ribbon-cutting event
Though the Brown’s ShopRite has drawn crowds to a sprawling complex at Fox St. and Roberts Ave. since August, politicians including ...
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DOMA lawsuit hits home at Greene Street Friends School
On Thursday night, an “open conversation about equality and the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)” will get personal at Germanto ...
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GFS Community Writers Series kicks off with award-winning author/illustrator’s Germantown nostalgia
Author and illustrator Jerry Pinkney traces his career’s roots back to a six-room house on Earlham Street in Germantown. Pin ...
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Celebrated author/illustrator to launch GFS’ new Community Writers Series
With a mission of “featuring nationally known authors with local ties to Germantown,” the new Community Writers Series will l ...
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Mt. Airy mural dedicated to ‘those who see it’
Ten years in the making, Northwest Philadelphia’s latest mural was officially dedicated on Saturday, as a crowd of around 30 people ...
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9 athletic competitions and a musical mark Saturday’s ‘PC/GA Day’ at Penn Charter
Old feuds die hard. The 127th rendition of the “oldest uninterrupted schoolboy football rivalry in the United States,” ...
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Northwest Philly auto-repair shop collecting canned goods for the needy
A Midas location on the cusp of West Oak Lane is using a classic-car show, community day and food drive to help local families on Thanksg ...
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