Construction at Glen Foerd mansion close to completion
Improvements almost are complete at one city-owned park facility in East Torresdale and will soon be under way at another, according to guest speakers at the May 9 meeting of the East Torresdale Civic...
Join Tacony Pride Day activities
The Tacony Civic Association will onsor the first Tacony Pride Day on Saturday from noon to 4 p.m.All Tacony residents and businesses are encouraged to clean up the front and back of their homes and...
Baldi Middle School has creative kids
Photos of wildlife and plants from Pennypack Park were used as inspiration for a mural that is in the works at Baldi Middle School. Baldi held an open house and ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday...
St. Anselm has the power of prayer
Bishop Michael J. Fitzgerald recently blessed and dedicated the new Prayer Garden at St. Anselm Parish in Parkwood.The ceremony took place following the 10 o’clock Mass.The garden features an entrance walkway, Stations of the Cross,...
Old-timers group presents honors
The Oldtimers Bats and Balls Association last week presented its William “Pickles” Kennedy Memorial Award to a longtime volleyball official and a successful fast-pitch softball team.Kennedy was a former star basketball player at Abraham Lincoln...
Emotional attachment for fighting AIDS
For the TimesEver since he was a teenager, Philadelphian Jon Garvey has been an eager volunteer. At 15, it was the Red Cross, and all through high school he signed up for community service projects.Then,...
You’re covered! Independent bookstores are doing just fine on their own
Jonathan Sipes, manager at The Next Page on 722 Chestnut St., looks up the value of books online.Kevin Cook/for the TimesAmy Dougherty and Jonathan Sipes have a simple message for those who lament the extinction of...
Partners in song at the Hancock School
They didn’t have TV, so they didn’t play video games. Their neighborhood, they felt, was a big family, and they didn’t text their friends; they talked to them. Written messages didn’t flash across tiny...
Gritty Philly film had to fight for its ‘Big Break’
In 2009, Norristown native Sean Kirkpatrick and a handful of others gathered in the river wards to tell a story.Setting up shop in a house on Richmond Street, they scraped together whatever money and resources...
The summer sounds of Penn’s Landing
Keeya Branson-Davis has been lining up free riverfront entertainment for Philadelphians for 14 years.As director of programming for the Delaware River Waterfront Corp. (the successor to Penn’s Landing Corp.), she mixes crowd favorites with new acts.For...