Monthly Archives: February, 2012

Preparing for the unexpected

Joseph McBride, Holy Family University’s director of public safety, said his department is fully prepared for emergencies, at least on paper.McBride, though, thought it would...

Encouraging kids to take a walk

Michael Hawkins, a senior district sales manager for the Sanofi Aventis pharmaceutical company, believes the 250 pedometers he recently delivered to Gen. J. Harry...

Local dentist and Pocono Raceway guru dies at 86

Dr. Joseph “Doc” Mattioli was a Northeast Philly dentist and real estate investor who didn’t know the first thing about carburetors or transmissions, let...

Northeast family organizes benefit for cancer patients

Cancer patient Debbie Chakler and her family and friends are sponsoring a benefit for needy cancer patients this Saturday, from 7 p.m. to midnight,...

Parks and Recreation Department to distribute free trees

The city will give out free trees in April. You can get one easily; all you have to do is ask and make a...

Sorting decades-old evidence could be “an impossible task”

Legal arguments for and against using decades-old allegations against Philadelphia priests as evidence in the upcoming sexual abuse trial of two priests and an...

Redistricting plan could change Holme Circle state representatives

City Controller Alan Butkovitz had just told a St. Jerome’s School library packed with Holme Circle residents about the fiscal and operational failings of...

Lawncrest is looking ahead to 4th of July gala

The Lawncrest 4th of July Committee is looking ahead to its summer celebration and welcomed volunteers to a planning meeting Monday night at the...

Animal remains found in park

A man walking his dog in Pennypack Park on Friday found a pile of dismembered animal remains that authorities believe likely has been sacrificed...

Vandals do their dirty work at Lincoln’s stadium

Christopher Andriso paints over the last of the graffiti at Lincoln High School’s football field walls during a clean-up arranged by the anti-graffiti department,...
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