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City creates fund that gives Kensington residents more power over their neighborhood.

Featured | Home Page Tom Beck - May 5, 2021 0

The office of Mayor Jim Kenney announced last week the creation of the Kensington Community Resilience Fund, an effort the city is calling “a...

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PA, Philly go blue, with help from NoLibs, Fishtown and rest of the River Wards and other election news

Tom Beck - November 11, 2020 0

By the Friday after Election Day, the writing was on the wall. As outstanding votes from mail-in ballots and the most Democratic areas of...

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Norris Square Neighborhood Project wins $20,000 award for its efforts in sustainable agriculture

Tom Beck - October 29, 2020 0

Since 1973, the Norris Square Neighborhood Project has provided a safe space for local residents and their children to develop sustainable-agriculture skills in the...

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Kensington Avenue is getting a police substation, which the PPD hopes can benefit surrounding neighborhoods as well

Tom Beck - October 20, 2020 0

The Philadelphia Police Department’s 24th district, which includes Kensington, Port Richmond, Harrowgate and Juniata, currently leads the city with 46 homicides so far this...

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Historians, community advocates fret over the future of former Penn Home building in Fishtown

Tom Beck - October 13, 2020 0

When the Star asked historian Oscar Beisert if he thought the now former Penn Home building - Fishtown’s oldest structure dating more than 250...

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Fishtown neighbors come together to show support for family who lost son to suicide

Tom Beck - October 5, 2020 0

Standing in front of a small crowd of his fellow Fishtown residents at the corner of Albert and Tulip streets Wednesday evening, Tony Cassetta...

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Hohenstein, Isaacson cosponsor bill to give driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants

Tom Beck - September 29, 2020 0

There used to be a time when an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number was all Pennsylvania residents needed to obtain a state driver’s license. But...

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Hohenstein, PPD work to fight illegal drag racing near Bridesburg

Tom Beck - September 22, 2020 0

Yvonne Stephens can’t get any sleep. She’s not the only one. “The music is so loud you can hear it in Bridesburg,” Stephens, who resides...

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Penn Home is where the heart is

Tom Beck - September 14, 2020 0

It was about 10 years ago when Teri Ramsay’s family faced the reality of one of the hardest decisions they ever had to make....

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City residents and lawmakers unite to take on illegal fireworks

Tom Beck - September 4, 2020 0

After weeks of suffering from lack of sleep, scared pets and PTSD triggers, a group of Philadelphia residents has banded together to put an...

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Artist Lauren Rinaldi gets “outwardly political” in her latest exhibition, Representative

Tom Beck - August 28, 2020 0

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, studies showed that banks led by a higher proportion of women fared better during the great...

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