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Olney: This Week In The News – Alumni Soccer Reunion, Skydiving Seniors and more

July 14, 2017 Brianna Spause 0

In case you missed it, we found a few places where people are talking about things happening in Olney: Cardinal Dougherty and an Alumni Soccer Match Worth Watching – Steve Schmidt, 1985 graduate of Cardinal [Read More]

Center City

Center City: ‘Philadelphia Is Baltimore’ Rally Floods Streets

May 1, 2015  0

Around the world, demonstrations are taking place in support of the Baltimore protestors and to highlight police brutality and racial issues in their own cities in the wake of the Freddie Gray death. Yesterday, hundreds [Read More]

A sign on a fence outside a daycare center.
Crime

Mantua: Gun Violence in “The Bottom”

March 11, 2014  0

At 3:45 p.m. on Tuesday February 11, 2014, 23 year-old Mantua resident Marquise Williams was shot dead outside of the H&H Daycare and Learning Center. Located at 40th and Poplar streets, the H&H Daycare and [Read More]

Crime

Fairhill: Neighborhood Mourns Loss of its ‘Mayor’

September 21, 2011  0

https://vimeo.com/29461501] When I came to Fairhill to get interviews about the death of an esteemed resident, I must admit I was a little nervous. James Hall, affectionately known as “The Mayor” or “Bus,” meant a [Read More]

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