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PA’s Get Away Campaign Aims to Boost Tourism in Philly

PA House Tourism & Recreational Development Committee Chair Mary Jo Daley has said she is proud to help announce that the Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development launched...

Stroke Survivor to Perform at Philadelphia Tango Festival After Remarkable Recovery

May is Stroke Awareness Month, and a Philadelphia-based dance teacher exemplifies the extraordinary recovery that ispossible with hard work, timely medical care, the support of a caring partner and...

Megawords is Mega Art

If you walk into the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s west entrance — the one at the rear, away from the widely known entrance atop the famous...

Missing Person: Joseph McGeehan

Family members are asking readers to be on the lookout for Joseph McGeehan.His family says he has gone missing. He also goes by the...

Opinion: Local legislators weigh in on Catholic school closings

As I waited for the Archdiocese briefing on the Faith in the Future Plan to begin, which occurred just a few hours prior to...

Port Richmond’s ‘Rocky’

If you notice Michael Avello running down Aramingo Avenue one morning, you might do a double take.That’s because this 45-year-old Port Richmond resident prides himself...

The beginning of the end

Ed Hanway, former chairman and CEO of Cigna and a member of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia blue ribbon commission, offered some sobering statistics in...

Kenzo native’s museum displays his need for speed

People don’t race automobiles like they used to.Nowadays, they drive computer-designed, cookie cutter-styled flying billboards around sanitized, if not boringly circular courses. In the old...
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