Every Saturday morning, the doors of the Lenfest PAL Center are opened to the kids of Hunting Park for City Year’s Young Heroes program. The middle school students who participate in this weekend day of [continue reading…]
Temple University senior Tabitha Mangum lives on Montgomery Avenue between Bouvier Street and 18th Street. Mangum is from Harrisburg and lives in the North Central Philadelphia neighborhood while she attends school. Mangum has had pleasant [continue reading…]
Operation Silence for Life is dedicated to getting its mission out to the public. Standing on Broad Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue, members of the Cardinal Newman Center on Temple’s main campus wore red [continue reading…]
Living in Fairhill was not something originally planned for Melissa Dunbar. Dunbar, a 36-year-old, single mother who was raised in Fairhill, never had the intention to remain a resident of the neighborhood. Despite working in [continue reading…]
When Lauren Cassady first saw the photos on Facebook, she was infuriated. A friend of hers from the East Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia had posted pictures of the side of a building with a large [continue reading…]
In North Central Philadelphia, residents are in close proximity to a medical facility that offers osteopathic medicine. which specializes in the body’s musculoskeletal system, and various other kinds of medical assistance. The In-Touch Medical Associates, Inc. [continue reading…]
Two young men waited anxiously outside a dreary school building, eyes darting up and down the street–as if looking for someone. A man approached not too long after, keys in hand. Once the man unlocked the doors, the boys [continue reading…]
Making a difference for the people of Philadelphia is exactly what the Zion Baptist Church does. The church has been standing at 3600 N. Broad St. since 1973 after being rebuilt because of a fire. [continue reading…]
You could say that George Bucher was just entering the family business. After all, his father, uncle and grandfather all served on the Philadelphia Fire Department. Now in his 39th year as a fireman Bucher grew [continue reading…]
The Francisville East development at 16th and Poplar streets is nearly finished, developers said. Community Ventures, a nonprofit affordable housing developer, broke ground on the project last February – a time when construction projects were [continue reading…]
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