
Philadelphia
Are you ready for COUNCILMANIA 2011?
You may think City Council’s budget hearings, which began last week and continue through the beginning of May, are ...
14 years ago
Delegation formed to negotiate about Chelten Plaza
Germantown Community Connection, a local civic group, didn’t plan on being the only community group with Fresh Grocer CEO, and deve ...
14 years ago
Old House Fair helps history live on in that old home
She only wanted to know about the wavy lines in the plaster of her 1726 farmhouse. Instead, Barb Seely may have walked away from the Old ...
14 years ago
Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Compromise speech of 1895 (audio and text)
The text of Booker T. Washington’s 1895 speech in Atlanta Source: Am ...
14 years ago
Health and wellness fair teaches youth about staying fit
Oteenie Wright III, an 11th-grader from Hope Charter School, classified himself as more of an observer than a participant at the Health a ...
14 years ago
Old rare documents in Chestnut Hill still have relevance today
Tucked away in Chestnut Hill, the Philadelphia Print Shop’s Don Cresswell shows us a world once forgotten… The ancient art of ma ...
14 years ago
Improving Philadelphia’s park system key to Wissahickon Valley’s long term viability
Improving how parks are managed in the city of Philadelphia may be the most effective way to make improvements for the Wissahickon Valley ...
14 years ago
NCAA women’s Sweet 16 in Philadelphia
This weekend, the NCAA basketball tournament continues–for the men and, in case you forgot, for the women, too. Games from the wome ...
14 years ago
New Bakers Square shopping center energizes a community
If it sounded a bit like a revival meeting under the big tent set up in the parking lot of the old Tastykake Baking site on Friday, that ...
14 years ago
Germantown Newspapers has rent troubles in historic property
To Jim Foster, publisher of the Germantown Chronicle and Mt. Airy Independent newspapers, his young news enterprise’s shaky financial p ...
14 years ago
Germantown Newspapers has rent troubles in historic property
To Jim Foster, publisher of the Germantown Chronicle and Mt. Airy Independent newspapers, his young news enterprise’s shaky financial p ...
14 years ago
Germantown Newspapers has rent troubles in historic property
To Jim Foster, publisher of the Germantown Chronicle and Mt. Airy Independent newspapers, his young news enterprise’s shaky financial p ...
14 years ago
At Richman’s first PHA meeting, audit shows agency is doing well
The Philadelphia Housing Authority held its first board meeting since the ouster of the entire board earlier this month. Standing i ...
14 years ago
Toad Detour is ‘point of pride’ in Roxborough
Toad migration has begun in upper Roxborough. As the weather warms, thousands of Philadelphia toads return to their birthplace, th ...
14 years ago
Improving Philadelphia’s park system key to Wissahickon Valley’s long-term viability
Improving how parks are managed in the city of Philadelphia may be the most effective way to make improvements for the Wissahickon Valley ...
14 years ago