Philadelphia
39th Police District: Where irons, walking canes and glass plates become weapons
This list covers Feb. 17 – Feb. 23, 2012. Feb. 17, 2012 4800 block Ridge Ave. – A house was set on fir ...
14 years ago
39th Police District: Where guys don’t take kindly to girlfriends ‘getting high and cheating’
This list covers Feb. 10 – Feb. 16, 2012. Feb. 10, 2012 5000 block Portico St. – A man was murdered. P ...
14 years ago
Violet Addison celebrated her 104th birthday in Germantown this weekend
Her silver hair in a tight bun while wearing pearls and a red dress, Violet Addison sits in a wheelchair in front of a shiny wooden piano ...
14 years ago
The Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership seeks volunteers for a Tree Survey in West Oak Lane and Germantown. Join them to surve ...
14 years ago
The West Rockland Street Neighbors group will hold a “Germantown Cleanup Meeting” at 7 p.m. Monday at St. Francis of Assisi, ...
14 years ago
Philadelphia to offer businesses incentives to install video cameras
Several cases of random assaults in Philadelphia have been solved with the help of video cameras mounted on businesses. The city is ...
14 years ago
Rep. Youngblood: We will fight Voter ID bill ‘tooth and nail’
Minutes after NewsWorks’s Germantown/West Oak Lane page posted a link to its story noting about City Councilwoman Cindy Bass’ ...
14 years ago
Florida students will spend Spring Break in Germantown
Unlike many students heading south for a Spring Break of gone-wild partying, 13 students from the Florida International University will t ...
14 years ago
Philadelphia Bike Race co-founder Jerry Casale dies at 71
The cycling community lost one of its big stars this week. Gerard “Jerry” Casale, one of the co-founders of the Philad ...
14 years ago
Rawk U students to play their first concert in East Falls
Daniel Cullen says he was first inspired by hair metal bands like Poison and White Snake to learn guitar 25 years ago. Then he discovered ...
14 years ago
Manayunk Neighborhood Council supports ‘Pretzel Park Connection’ project
On Wednesday night, members of the Manayunk Neighborhood Council voted to support a conceptual plan that seeks to raise visibility and ac ...
14 years ago
New owner nutures seed company deeply rooted in American history
While delegates to the Constitutional Convention were in Philadelphia more tan 200 years ago, many stopped by the D. Landreth Seed Compan ...
14 years ago
Parents voice concerns with plan to save Levering School
An official with Cook-Wissahickon Elementary School in Roxborough said this week that a proposal to relocate the school to William Leveri ...
14 years ago
Northwest Philly council members react to mayor’s budget address
In delivering his 2012 Budget Address to City Council on Thursday, Mayor Michael Nutter painted Philadelphia as a city which saw “s ...
14 years ago
Farmers bristle at regulations
On the occasion of National Agriculture Day Thursday, Pennsylvania farmers and their advocates were railing against a deluge of new regul ...
14 years ago