Tag: City

Fairmount Park: Philadelphia Organic Recycling Center Offers Citizens Free Compost, Wood Chips, and Gardening Materials

July 15, 2019Brian Steinmetz

Tucked away down a hill just off West Ford Road in Fairmount Park sits the Fairmount Park Organic Recycling Center. Many people may not know about this hidden treasure, but mounds of compost, wood chips,

Feltonville: Handball is uniting communities and keeping kids out of trouble

June 12, 2017Dominic Barone and Dominic Barone

In a city where drugs and violence are easy to get wrapped up in, there’s a constant need to get the youth involved in safe outlets that keeps them off the streets. Wally Amaro, 38,

Northern Liberties: Getting the Community’s Hands Dirty

November 6, 2015pnadmin

Terrariums hang from the ceiling and green plants are everywhere inside City Planter. The former warehouse on 4th Street neat Brown is now a gardener’s sanctuary, with shelves of green plants and colorful flowers spilling out to the sidewalk, bringing

Philadelphia City Rowing helps to save varsity programs at Temple

March 24, 2014tub10245

When Temple University announced the decision to eliminate seven varsity programs last December—including men’s crew and women’s rowing—a fight began to save the historic programs for the benefit of the student-athletes, coaches and prospective rowers