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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...

Robin Morton Broke Cycling’s Barrier as First Woman Team Owner

Philadelphia is preparing to recognize its many firsts ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary. Among them is a development from the city’s cycling community. In the 1980s, Robin Morton...

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....
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