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HEADstrong Foundation Brings Annual Benefit to Fishtown

The HEADstrong Foundation, an organization dedicated to aiding families battling cancer and making care more accessible, will host its 15th annual fundraiser on September 18, 2025, from 6 p.m....

Kensington Faces Extreme Heat, Local Leaders Urge Action

Yesterday, local leaders, public health advocates, and elected officials gathered for the first event in the Extreme Weather Emergency Tour, a four-state press tour highlighting how climate-change-fueled extreme weather...

River Wards events for the week of July 31

St. Anne’s produce vouchersSt. Anne’s Senior Center, 2607 E. Cumberland St., has been distributing produce vouchers through the Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP.) Seniors...

Celebrating the Big Green Block

PHOTO COURTESY OF NKCDCOn Saturday, July 20, from 11 a.m. to noon, the New Kensington Community Development Corporation, the Philadelphia Water Department, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society,...

A F.O.R.K. in the road

And they’re off: The F.O.R.K. Tour group hustles to Steap and Grind, 1619 Frankford Ave. The teashop and cafe was the first of several...

The Best of the River Wards 2013

After a very popular 2012 contest in which Star received almost 2,000 votes for the best local businesses, people, recreation spots, food, shopping and...

River Wards events for the week of July 24

SKCP to meet tonightThe South Kensington Community Partners will host a community zoning meeting tonight, July 24, beginning at 6:30 p.m., at 1301 N. 2nd. St.The...

South Kensington’s star is rising

The vacant former Absco site in South Kensington, seen from American and Master streets (above), is where the SoKo Lofts project (below) is slated...
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