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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...

Editor’s notice

Star’s neighborhood dropboxes, where readers can drop off letters to the editor, birthday, memorial, congratulations, event and other notices, are back in use. We’ll...

Union claims fire deaths were ‘preventable’

Local 22, the union that represents Philadelphia’s firefighters, has called for the resignation of Fire Department Commissioner Lloyd Ayers, along with two top members...

Crazy contraptions in Kensington

See our photo gallery at right. For a list of winners and more information, visit www.kensingtonkinetic.org.

Riverward upcoming events for this week, May 23

Beef and beer for Flo Callazo-JordanSaturday, June 9 from 7 to 11 p.m. at Veterans Boxer Association Ring 1, 2733 E. Clearfield St. $25...

City’s Parks Alliance to council: ‘Show us the money’

Where is the money that the city promised to the Parks and Recreation department?That’s what members of city council and the Philadelphia Parks Alliance...

The true Kensington

Do you make it to the Kensington Kinetic Derby and Trenton Avenue Arts Fest this past Saturday?I did.I’ve attended these paired events without fail...
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