20+ hour, 4+ min ago   (534+ words) Hundreds of residents filled the Garden of Reflection in Lower Makefield Township on Thursday evening to mark 25 years since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, according to 6abc/WPVI. The ceremony centered on the 18 Bucks County residents killed that day, with nine of…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (507+ words) A Bucks County woman who lost her husband in the September 11 terrorist attacks has written a memoir about how she found a way to live with that loss over the 25 years since. According to Bucks County Courier Times reporter JD…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (543+ words) As the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks arrives on Friday, Billy Penn at WHYY has compiled a full slate of commemorative events across Philadelphia and its surrounding counties, honoring the 2,977 people killed in New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia in 2001. The…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (362+ words) According to CBS News Philadelphia, thousands of union workers and their families are gathering Monday morning in South Philadelphia for the 39th annual Tri-State Labor Day Parade and Family Festival. The Philadelphia Council AFL-CIO is hosting the event at Sheet Metal…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (508+ words) Les Dames d'Escoffier Philadelphia will hold its 2026 Outstanding in Her Field Heritage Dinner on Sunday, Sept. 13, from 4 to 7 p.m. at Glen Foerd Mansion, 5001 Grant Ave. More than two dozen chefs, bakers, and restaurateurs from across the Philadelphia region will take part,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (498+ words) Pennsylvania's Department of Human Services has started sending formal notices to more than 700,000 Medicaid expansion enrollees statewide, alerting them to federal work requirements set to take effect next year, WHYY reported. About 183,000 of those recipients live in Philadelphia. All mailings…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (458+ words) The all-volunteer nonprofit that supported Fox Chase Farm for more than three decades has shut down, with members saying the Philadelphia School District pushed them out of the city-owned property they helped maintain since 1990. Former president Karen Eble said the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (467+ words) The Philadelphia Housing Authority plans to build 85 affordable homes in the Strawberry Mansion section of North Philadelphia, near 27th and York streets. The project will add subsidized rentals and for-sale houses to blocks the agency describes as long blighted and largely…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (878+ words) A West Philadelphia native who learned to scoop water ice on 52nd Street now sells the frozen Philly staple at Disneyland, running the first Black-owned dessert shop at the Downtown Disney complex in Orange County, California. Lemier Mitchell, 34, opened Happy Ice…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (458+ words) Henry “Harry” McNichol spent more than 30 years teaching accounting at Cardinal Dougherty High School, and years after his death in December 2019, former students are still leaving tributes that speak to his impact on generations of Northeast Philadelphia graduates. The most…...