Philadelphia
Northwest Fund awards $300,000 to area non-profits
The winners of The Northwest Fund’s Neighborhood Change Agent Award will be publicly honored Monday during a morning event in Germa ...
14 years ago
A.I. Poland to close after 112 years in business
When Victor Ostroff closes the doors of his century-old jewelry store on Main Street in Manayunk in a couple of months, he’ll be le ...
14 years ago
Hidden Treasures uncovered at Soft Illusions
This mother’s day will be extra special for Malika Vaughn, as it’s marks a little more than one year since she purchased and opened t ...
14 years ago
Mt. Airy summer movies aims to spark interest in library area
The grounds of the Lovett Memorial Library in Mt. Airy will become an open-air movie theater this summer, and residents are invited to he ...
14 years ago
Search ends for missing student Devon Minor
The search has ended for a college student missing in western Pennsylvania. Authorities discovered the body of Devon Minor, a Philadelphi ...
14 years ago
Local volunteers report back from Southern tornado zone
An emergency response vehicle from the American Red Cross left Philadelphia today. The vehicle is headed to tornado ravaged Alabama ...
14 years ago
Design contracts awarded for Manayunk bridge trail
The next phase of the effort to turn the Manayunk Bridge into a pedestrian park and path connecting Philadelphia and Lower Merion is movi ...
14 years ago
O’Neill: Philadelphia must delay firefighters from DROPing
A Philadelphia City Councilman wants to give firefighters close to retirement another year to leave the city. The city of Philadel ...
14 years ago
Latinos aim to redraw lines of gerrymandered 7th District
A local software company has crunched the numbers and found Philadelphia’s 7th District to be the most gerrymandered local district ...
14 years ago
Unusual ‘bandits’ plaguing North Philly
What is normally a woodland creature is causing trouble in Philadelphia. Councilman Darrell Clarke said raccoons are becoming a ma ...
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Bill reforming Philadelphia’s DROP retirement incentive to be introduced by end of May
Philadelphia City Council is moving forward to reform the early retirement incentive known as DROP. Council President Anna Verna s ...
14 years ago
1000 (and counting) say no to Chelten Plaza
A business group has taken aim at one of its own in Germantown. By collecting more than 1000 signatures of people who oppose a new develo ...
14 years ago
W.B. Saul students head to state Envirothon competition
Last week, 54 students from six Philadelphia High Schools met at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education in Roxborough to take ...
14 years ago
On May 5, 1862, an undersized Mexican militia led by Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín defeated the larger and more heavily-armed invading forces ...
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It began with the “Rocket Man” incident. Jim Harris had performed in the choir and played cello for Saint Madeleine So ...
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