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Tony Stewart’s No. 14 Chevrolet Impala will be on display on Ridge Ave. this weekend

Award-winning Nascar driver Tony Stewart’s rubber-burning whip is making a pit stop in Roxborough Saturday, and he’s giving f ...

14 years ago

Final-ly Friday in Mt. Airy channels Fourth of July spirit

This month’s Final-ly Friday event in Mt. Airy is perfect prelude to what could be a super long Fourth of July holiday. This year, ...

14 years ago

Eight questions for City Councilwoman Cindy Bass

As Philadelphia City Council prepares to take its summer recess after Thursday’s meeting, NewsWorks caught up with Eighth District ...

14 years ago

Northwest community and officials honor Philadelphia peacekeepers

Homemade potato salad, burgers, hot dogs, corn-on-the-cob and apple cobbler were all on the menu for a cookout entitled “Peacekeepe ...

14 years ago

Pennsylvania’s official arboretum celebrates its 125th Anniversary this weekend

The Commonwealth’s official arboretum turns 125 this year. To mark the anniversary of the purchase of the Compton Mansion and ...

14 years ago

Mount Airy Home Companion excerpt – White Plastic Stackable Chairs

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West Oak Lane residents watch as their block becomes a movie set

It’s not every day that you see a film crew setting up shop on your West Oak Lane block. While James and Virginia Bell were ...

14 years ago

Short sales up 29 percent in Philadelphia

A new trend could be good news to both real estate buyers and sellers in Philadelphia. An analysis by Philadelphia Controller Alan ...

14 years ago

Group calls for transparency in new Philadelphia school superintendent contract

A government watchdog group is calling for some transparency when it comes to the hiring Philadelphia’s next schools superintendent ...

14 years ago

Germantown Settlement’s remains help establish a charter school in Camden

The remnants of the failed Germantown Settlement Charter School will help give a new charter school in Camden, NJ a head start when it op ...

14 years ago

OARC launches renovation of four ‘eyesore and nuisance’ properties in Germantown

John Ungar, the chief operating officer of the Ogontz Avenue Revitalization Corp. (OARC) stood at the site of a new revitalization projec ...

14 years ago

Local residents show off their talent at Mt. Airy Community Church open mic night

The Mt. Airy Community Church hosted its open mic this past weekend at the Moving Art ...

14 years ago

Germantown man shot as gunmen open fire on Zeralda St.

A 19-year-old man remained at Albert Einstein Medical Center hours after being shot when two unknown gunmen opened fire on the 200 block ...

14 years ago

Boyd fined for not filing campaign finance reports in 198th state-rep race

A former state representative candidate out of Northwest Philadelphia is now facing maximum fines at both the city and state level for fa ...

14 years ago

Brain-injury survivor to debut documentary on his ride to recovery this Saturday

There was a time, not so long ago, when they didn’t know whether Doug Markgraf would survive, let alone pedal a bicycle ever again. ...

14 years ago

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