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Environment

Hunting Park: Beat the Heat Program Brings Cooling Options to City’s Hottest Neighborhoods

July 2, 2021 McKenzie Sage Morgan

“When it gets hot, this area is hot.” Beat the Heat will continue its focus on in-home cooling this summer, providing fans and air conditioners to Hunting Park residents who need it most.

This is one of the group rooms at the The Renfrew Center in Center City. The artwork shown was created and donated by patients and alumni of various Renfrew sites.
Health

Mental Health: Overcoming the Barriers to Eating Disorder Treatment in Philadelphia

May 5, 2021 Leanne R Spiegle

Despite being one of the highest-populated cities in the country, Philadelphia is also one of the most unadvanced when it comes to affordable care for people with eating disorders.

Community Meetings

West Philadelphia: Councilmembers and Citizens Call on Wealthy Nonprofit Institutions to Pay Fair Share of Taxes

April 20, 2021 Jesse Bunch

Concerned citizens and advocates met with Philadelphia City Council members recently to demand wealthy nonprofits in the city, especially universities, pay their fair share of property taxes.  Nonprofits don’t pay property taxes but often make

Arts and Entertainment

Mantua: New Mural Dedicated to Malcolm Jenkins Foundation

November 15, 2019 Caitlin McCafferty

Mekhi Richards, 13, and his family gazed upon the new mural at the playground on 33rd and Wallace streets in Mantua. The bright new mural surrounds the entire playground, covering the walls of an outbuilding,

Environment

Powelton Village: Park Cleanup Initiative Brings Both Community And University Students Together

December 10, 2018 Kaicey Baylor

Love Your Park, a citywide initiative to keep Philadelphia’s parks clean, had it’s fall cleanup Saturday morning on Nov. 11 at Saunders Park on 39th Street and Powelton Avenue. Community members and Drexel University students

Arts and Entertainment

Arts & Entertainment: Budget Cuts To NEA Affect Public Arts Programing In Philadelphia

May 4, 2017 Brian Tom

Celeste DiNucci remembers exactly where she was and what she was doing during the early hours of morning when she and the rest of the public arts world found out that President Donald Trump announced his

Amateur Sports

Hunting Park: SquashSmarts Prepares Kids For What Is Next In Life Through Squash

March 28, 2017 Dalton Balthaser

The loud sound of the collision of a rubber squash ball with a white wall reverberated around the squash courts at SquashSmarts, on the second floor of the Lenfest Center, as sweat dripped down the

Center City

Politics: Criminal Justice Reform Committee Focuses On Psychology

June 6, 2016 Ryan C Snowden

The Special Committee on Criminal Justice Reform met last month in the City Council chambers. Co-chairs Curtis Jones Jr. of City Council, retired Deputy Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel and the head of the Defender Association

Featured Stories

Powelton Village: A Neighborhood In Transition

May 9, 2016 Thomas D Reifsnyder

Usually when a person’s name is drawn from a hat, they gain something. But when Linn Washington had his name called hours before one of Philadelphia’s most controversial events, he almost lost his head. Literally.

Featured Stories

Mantua: After-School Programs Filling Void Left By Closure of University City High School

April 19, 2016 Thomas D Reifsnyder

For 41 years, the 14-acre plot on Filbert Street between 37th and 38th streets was home to University City High School, Charles Drew Elementary School and The Walnut Center. Today, those buildings have been erased from

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