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TerraPower Chooses Philly for $450M Medical Isotope Hub

A nuclear science company founded by Bill Gates has chosen South Philadelphia for a new manufacturing facility dedicated to producing radioactive medical isotopes used in cancer treatment. TerraPower Isotopes...

Little Walter’s Turns Neighbor’s Request Into Gluten-Free Pierogi Night

Little Walter’s, a modern Polish restaurant in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood, now hosts a monthly gluten-free dinner service after a special event created for one neighbor with celiac disease drew...

Neighbors vote ‘no’ to a proposed methadone clinic

The East Kensington community voted down 54–8 Kensington Hospital’s proposal to move its methadone dispensary facility from its current location to one just over...

A family’s search for answers

Tommy’s Petroski’s parents, Tom and June, with his young cousins, Tori and Bailey, in front of the Petroskis’ Aramingo Avenue home. The sign the...

StarGazing: Letters and notices for the week of November 13

Donate for the holidaysWith the holidays approaching, it’s time, once again, to ask for the community’s help in donating to those less fortunate.The Northeast Times’’...

Cell phone buying machine ban moves forward in PA

A bill that outlaws automated cell phone purchasing machines like two in Philadelphia was voted favorably out of committee Oct. 24.But before calling Bill 130693...

Not just a ‘Pile of Bricks’

Sarah Finestone inside the gallery space at “Pile of Bricks,” her Frankford Avenue warehouse that will host an art show this week before closing...

A ‘neighborhood’ guy with his name on the sign

Michael Primavera with his wife and kids.Just call him the comeback kid.He came back to his roots, that is. Michael Primavera calls himself a product of...
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