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

Featured | Home Page 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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The Fishtown/Kensington BID is doing its part to support local heroes

Tom Beck - April 28, 2020 0

As thousands of people in the River Wards community struggle to deal with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Fishtown Kensington Area Business...

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Here’s how one Port Richmond deli helped animals during the pandemic

Tom Beck - April 20, 2020 0

While much of America is finding ways to help people who’ve been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, Joanie Thompson, an employee at Hecker’s Deli...

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PPAC’s latest photo exhibition moves online

Tom Beck - April 3, 2020 0

It’s not exactly how they drew it up, but Ten Years, the latest exhibition from the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, is on display -...

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River Wards arts institutions among grant recipients

Tom Beck - April 2, 2020 0

The Philadelphia Cultural Fund, an organization that provides operating support to Philadelphia-based arts and cultural organizations, has announced that a number of River Wards-based...

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Fishtown-area businesses grapple with the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic

Tom Beck - March 24, 2020 0

As the coronavirus pandemic rears its ugly head, government-mandated social distancing practices have ended plans for not only sporting events and concerts, but weddings,...

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The safe injection site fight is shaping up to be a battle between residents and health experts

Tom Beck - March 17, 2020 0

In last Monday’s City Council hearing in front of the Public Health and Human Services Committee, testimonies from roughly 30 individuals in the debate...

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Galvo development team, ORCA have yet to settle on CBA

Tom Beck - March 10, 2020 0

At Wednesday night’s community zoning meeting at Cione Recreation Center, representatives from the Olde Richmond Civic Association told members of the community that the...

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Philly won’t be getting a safe injection site anytime soon. Supporters of the cause think there’s plenty of blame to go around.

Tom Beck - March 9, 2020 0

Despite Safehouse’s efforts to implement the country’s first safe injection site in Philadelphia, many members of the city’s pro-safe injection site community have told...

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Interiorscape made by Portside Arts Center featured at Philadelphia Flower Show

Tom Beck - March 4, 2020 0

The last thing Portside Arts Center’s founding director, Kim Creighton, expected was a call from the Philadelphia Flower Show. “They just called us out of...

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A whirlwind week for supporters, opponents of safe injection sites

Tom Beck - March 3, 2020 0

For a brief, roughly 24-hour period last week, Philadelphia was set to become the first city in the United States to open a safe...

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