Articles by charper

Police officers have the toughest job in the city. I’ve had the opportunity to work with officers in a variety of places and found that there are some important facts: –Many officers don’t think much

[soundslide url=”https://smcsites.com/soundslides/uploads/su11westoaklanejazzfest” height=500 width=600] Sharing the desire for the glory of the jazz age, nine students from the Central High School Jazz Band performed on stage at this year’s West Oak Lane Jazz and Arts

Professor Shenid Bhayroo and a team of Temple University journalists will spend more than one month in South Africa, with periodic reports about the country and its people.

A group of Roxborough teens from the Salvation Army recently visited South Africa. Read about their trip on our partner’s website, www.newsworks.org at https://bit.ly/kZoTOg

Mike Lyons and his wife run West Philly Local, a blog style website that covers news in West Philadelphia. For bloggers like Lyons the dispute over the past year concerning the ‘blogger’ tax has caused

https://vimeo.com/24361183] Residents of West Rockland Street between Green Street and Germantown Avenue participated in a planting and beautification day by planting annuals, perennials, shrubs, herbs, vegetables and fruit in their front yards. The program was

newsworks.org, the website of WHYY, and Philadelphia Neighborhoods are covering the 8th District’s voting throughout Chestnut Hill, Mount Airy, West Oak Lane, Germantown and Tioga. See the blog at https://bit.ly/mBNu6z Seven candidates are vying in the

Professor Edward Trayes’ photo class has done a multimedia project about smoking in Philadelphia, where nearly one out of every four people smoke. That rate is one of the highest in the country. See the