Laura Benshoff
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Germantown symposium to discuss public-education evolution since the Colonial era
On Friday and Saturday, a Historic Germantown symposium will link educational issues from colonial times to the present day through the w ...
11 years ago
Filmmaker, West Oak Lane native gets standing ovation at Philadelphia premiere
Tommy Oliver’s “1982,” a film “inspired by true events” and set and shot in the West Oak Lane house where t ...
11 years ago
Pair of Northwest Philadelphia historic sites to be honored next week
When History in Pennsylvania ( ...
11 years ago
Historic houses ‘brought back from the brink of despair’ the focus of Sunday home tour
Sunday will be a banner day for home-tour enthusiasts in Northwest Philadelphia. As part of Historic Germantown’s fourth ann ...
11 years ago
For Rafeequh Sanders, Domestic Violence Awareness Month brings a hope that’s steeped in tragedy. In July 2011, she lost her ...
11 years ago
Aging-in-place initiative Mutual Mt. Airy introduces a plan for membership and services
After nine months of research and working-group meetings, Mutual Mt. Airy called a public meeting Monday night to release its concrete pl ...
11 years ago
West Oak Lane cleanup day, Oct. 5
On Saturday, the West Oak Lane Charter School, office of state Rep. Dwight Evans and others will signify Prudential Financial’s 19t ...
11 years ago
A slew of events scheduled for this Saturday’s Revolutionary Germantown Festival
Celebrating the 236th anniversary of the Battle of Germantown on a weekend that marks 330 years since the neighborhood’s founding, ...
11 years ago