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Governor celebrating Small Business Week in Pennsylvania

Gov. Josh Shapiro marked the beginning of Small Business Week with events across the commonwealth dedicated to bolstering Pennsylvania’s economy by supporting the state’s...

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Programs at Richmond Library Richmond Library, 2987 Almond St., offers a Literacy Enrichment Afterschool Program that meets Mondays and Tuesdays from 2-6 p.m. and Wednesdays,...

24th Police District Captain commends Memphis Street Academy Charter School

A February 2013 photo of a group of Memphis Street Academy Charter School female students, who were enrolled in the “D.I.V.A. Academy” program, which...

‘Good beer, doing good’

Thomas Sheridan, left, and Benjamin Bedard started the Do Good Brewing Company six months ago out of a warehouse on Westmoreland Street in Port...

River Wards events for the week of September 4

PROPAC to meetPROPAC (Port Richmond on Patrol and Civic) will hold its monthly meeting on Thursday, Sept. 5 at Samuel’s Recreation Center, 3501 Gaul St....

River Wards news in brief for the week of Sept. 4

Councilwoman Joan Krajewski passesFormer City Councilwoman Joan Krajewski, originally from Agate Street in Port Richmond, passed away at age 79 on Thursday, August 29,...

PECO warns of latest small-business scam

PECO is warning its small business customers about a scam involving their electric bills. Con artists are threatening some of the utility’s customers that...

SNAPSHOT: Rocking out for a great cause

COURTESY OF ROCK TO THE FUTUREOn Saturday, Aug. 24, youth music outreach organization Rock to the Future hosted its “Rally for Rock” event at Northern...

River Wards experience end-of-summer crime spike

The CVS store on Aramingo Avenue, where police officers responded last week to what turned out to be a phony bomb threat. SAM NEWHOUSE...

What are our students going back to?

FROM WIKIMEDIA COMMONSBridesburg mom Kristin Misko said she has always believed in public education.With three children — in kindergarten, first and third grade — about to begin the...

LAST CHANCE: Vote for the Best of the River Wards 2013!

If you haven’t voted, vote NOW:Thanks for voting in Star’s 2013 readers’ choice contest! Vote once from now through Aug. 30, 2013, at 3 p.m....

Blighted wall collapses; neighbors hope for action

The partially collapsed property at 325 W. Girard Ave, seen above on Aug. 20, has been declared “imminently dangerous” by the city’s Department of...

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