Mayfair man authors novel that’s ‘Bad to the Bone’
Mayfair resident John Lahm has published a novel, Bad to the Bone, about the arrival of a new species of shark that developed due to human medical waste seeping down through the Florida rock...
Empowering Cuts, a mobile barbershop, ready to go
For years, Joshua Santiago dreamed about opening a fully-fledged barber shop in the back of an RV so he can take his services to his clients. The Mayfair resident has driven around Philadelphia and...
The show will go on at MaST
The MaST Community Charter School drama club was less than a week away from presenting The Wizard of Oz last year when the coronavirus shut down all activities.
That meant no Oz and no after-party.
“It...
Will Rodebaugh, a proud Manor College grad
Will Rodebaugh spent a few years at Cedar Grove Christian Academy, though most of his schooling was at home and online until graduating high school in 2017 from Keystone School.
Rodebaugh, a Northwood resident who...
Yarn bombing on Longshore
The Tacony LAB Community Arts Center, 6918 Torresdale Ave., on Saturday welcomed people to visit and learn more about its recent “yarn bombing.”
During the month-long effort, artist Lucia Alber, of Vox Populi, 319 N....
Lawncrest native named Alumna of the Year at Milton Hershey
Growing up in a corner rowhouse with no yard in Lawncrest, Christine Cook always enjoyed drives out to Hershey to visit her older brother Tom on weekends. Tom was a student at Milton Hershey...
Listening to the sounds of DJ Rockstar
Harry L. Taylor III is on the school beat as an 8th Police District officer by day, but by night and weekend transforms into DJ Rockstar.
Taylor, 44, who grew up in the Hill Creek...
Ryan performs Steel Pier, first play since pandemic
Performing in the play is hard work.
Learning your role in less than two weeks, that’s even tougher. But it’s what Elizabeth Haney did for her part in the Archbishop Ryan High School play.
The school...
Northeast Family YMCA gets new director
Beginning a new position as executive director of the Northeast Family YMCA during a pandemic and in an area of the city she was unfamiliar with seemed like a daunting task, but Shea Trogdon...