Rybread Cafe has plans to expand from its location at 2139 Fairmount Ave. “We didn’t want to expand originally, but we had to in order to provide more seating, a bigger kitchen and more catering,” [continue reading…]
Scarecrows and shovels, trash cans and gardening gloves are strewn about in South Kensington community gardens. Few plants are blooming, but preparations are underway for another year of community-based gardening. “I think that community gardens [continue reading…]
Simple Cycle, located at 4455 N. Sixth St., offers the community affordable used bikes to cruise through the neighborhood streets and around the 87 acres of open space in Hunting Park. Shop owner Daniel Helms [continue reading…]
Find Your Wings, a youth engagement organization, in conjunction with Carson Valley Children’s Aid kicked off the fourth annual Youth Career Readiness Workshop yesterday at the Olney Logan Neighborhood Center. The two-day workshop is [continue reading…]
The residents of the Yorktown section of North Philadelphia consider themselves to be a very tight knit community. But the residents of Custis Place, just off the corner of 12th Street and Girard Avenue, consider [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/63349734] The uniquely triangular section of Francisville connected by the 1600 blocks of Ridge Avenue and Poplar Street is home to five community outreach organizations. Although the groups offer different services, they share similar goals to [continue reading…]
When the Emerald Street Park received a grant earlier this month from the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, the emphasis was put more on its value than the actual dollar amount. “The project’s worth is not something [continue reading…]
Stephanie Michel has lived in Olney for thirteen years since she moved to the area from Brooklyn with her family. Michel said she appreciates watching the change and growth in her neighborhood and enjoys being [continue reading…]
Nicetown Community Development Center President Zakariyya Abdur-Rahman first saw a strong need for a center that would provide a variety of social services to the people of Nicetown in 1999. It was after owning a [continue reading…]
For the ice cream world, winter is often seen as a dead time and when shops close their doors for the season. East Kensington’s Little Baby’s Ice Cream shop cofounder Jeffrey Ziga would like it [continue reading…]
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