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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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With less than a week left until an election that will decide the next leader of the country, voters will also head to 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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Star News - October 19, 2020 0

REUNIONS Thomas Junior High reunion set for October 2021 An all-class reunion for the former George C. Thomas Junior High School will take place on Oct....

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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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Joe Mason - October 12, 2020 0

To an ordinary person, it would have been the ultimate act of bravery. But Sean Dugan isn’t your ordinary person, and he was just doing...

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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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Pulling for Petey

Melissa Komar - September 29, 2020 0

Petey didn’t have much going for him when his owner, St. John Cantius pastor the Rev. Joseph J. Zingaro, passed away in May from...

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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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Bird’s-eye view

Joe Mason - September 21, 2020 0

If you’re looking to do Eagle chants and hear hosts scream that the offensive line sucks or Doug Pederson is a bum, this might...

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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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