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Amateur Sports

Kensington: Youth Leader Provides Sports Activities Through Pandemic

March 24, 2021 Megan Noelle Combs 0

Felix Agosto has been the head of MVP360, a nonprofit organization that facilitates youth sports teams for seven years. When COVID shut down youth sports leagues, Agosto pivoted his impact to career and social-emotional coaching over Zoom, through the Leadership Academy. […]

COVID-19

Kensington: Experts Talk Buying a Home During a Pandemic

December 21, 2020 Alexandra J Butz 0

New Kensington Community Development Corporation held a homebuyer workshop on Nov. 21 to advise interested buyers of best practices for buying property during a pandemic. […]

Business

COVID-19: Thrift Stores Face Economic Pressures of Pandemic

December 9, 2020 Donovan F Hugel 0

Businesses worldwide have been forced to make widespread changes due to the pandemic. How have thrift stores, which are staples of local communities, dealt with the challenges? […]

COVID-19

COVID-19: LIHEAP Recovery Crisis Program Provides Assistance to Customers Struggling With Utility Bills

September 14, 2020 Solmaira Valerio 0

LIHEAP is now open and accepting applications until Aug. 31, 2020 or until funds are exhausted
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COVID-19

Kensington: How the Kensington Community Food Co-op has Adjusted to COVID-19

April 20, 2020 Emma Goldhaber and Claudia Estrada 0

Kensington Food Co-op manger Mike Richards said the store must adhere to new coronavirus safety guidelines while keeping co-op members and employees safe. […]

Crime

Germantown: Local Veteran Marches to Washington For Cause

August 13, 2019 Dee Patel and Christopher Malo 0

Jamal Johnson started his 125 mile hike, Stop Killing Us, to increase awareness of gun violence and police brutality. He and others gathered at the House of Umoja in West Philadelphia on Aug. 7 to […]

Kensington

Kensington: Neighborhood Volunteers Come Together for Monthly Cleanup

August 9, 2019 Dee Patel and Christopher Malo 1

With shovels and brooms in hand and dragging trash cans behind them, staff and community volunteers from Prevention Point of Philadelphia cleaned up trash as part of Kensington’s Community Cleanup Day on Saturday, Aug. 3, […]

Government

Kensington: Community Members Stacked Against Safe Injection Sites

May 3, 2019 Lawrence O'Connor 0

There was one topic on everyone’s mind at a 24th Police District Police Service Area Three, which serves Port Richmond and Kensington, meeting on April 10. The proposal of the city’s first safe injection site. […]

Amateur Sports

Kensington: Shaping the Person, Then the Player

April 1, 2019 Lawrence O'Connor 3

One could say Mark Lavelle was born to coach. At age 15, before some kids even begin playing team sports, Lavelle was already coaching neighborhood kids in Kensington as a way to keep them away […]

Housing

Kensington: One Neighborhood, Two Worlds

January 21, 2019 Zuri Hoffman 1

The dynamic neighborhood of Kensington is evolving in several ways. On one hand, the community is facing one of the worst drug crisis in the country. Meanwhile, housing developers are beginning to change the neighborhood, […]

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