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...