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By Rick Cawley
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Homeowners across the region are combating a new insect pest, the spotted lanternfly, a handsome but invasive critter that was accidentally imported into Berks County from Asia in 2012, and has been busily spreading across the area ever since. Blessed with a hypodermic needle for a mouth, it…
Shakespeare, in his play about Julius Caesar, had Mark Anthony say, “The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.” We’re seeing a lot of that these days.
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Little items here and there in Reader’s Digest magazine are often more interesting than the long articles, digested or indigested. One that struck my fancy last month had only five lines.
By Mike Weilbacher
On July 5, 2020 at 10:10 p.m., Abington Police responded to the area of Ferndale Avenue at Tremont Avenue for a reported disturbance.
The Roxborough Bandits Jr. American Legion team battled Aston-Media in a hard fought playoff series. Many of the youngsters from that team went on to outstanding high school careers but lost out on their senior year seasons this Spring. The squad was coached by former Bandits players: Brian …
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What is it about flags? Why have fancy rectangles of cloth become important as symbols of all sorts of things?
TELFORD — Some of the changes at this year's Telford Night Market are because of the coronavirus, but some were already planned before the pandemic and social distancing.
By Rick Cawley
Following the ordered closing of all non-life-sustaining businesses this past March, members of the Roxborough real estate community contacted the Roxborough Development Corporation (RDC) to offer support during an extraordinary time.
By Jim Cawley
As the impact of COVID-19 was being felt throughout the Philadelphia area over the last three months, students at Roxborough School of Nursing stepped up to lend a hand.
As the region lurches into first the yellow and then the green phases of the governor’s post-pandemic reopening plan, the Schuylkill Center will welcome a group of summer campers to our annual camp this Monday, June 29, easily the most interesting camp in our 30+ years of offering this progr…
The controversial use of excessive force by law enforcement officers is nothing new. The current controversy about cops beating citizens would remind a history buff of Philadelphia’s first case of such behavior, just a bit more than three centuries ago.
BLUE BELL -- Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Fox & Roach, REALTORS® congratulates The Rosenthal Group, Blue Bell sales associates, on being recognized as Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices first quarter 2020 award winners for gross commission income (GCI) and/or residential units in the ent…
The April data showed an upward trend in median sales prices, and further examination shows the rise can be attributed, in part, to shifts in the makeup of the housing market. This is due to the economic shutdown caused by the pandemic, which disproportionally affected people in the lower in…
By Rick Cawley
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Pam DeLissio has seen a lot in her five terms as state representative for the 194th District, which includes Roxborough and Manayunk. But serving as a legislator in a pandemic is easily a new experience. I talked with her two Fridays ago, the exact day that Philadelphia was moving into the s…
The Frank Rizzo statue has been hauled away from in front of the Municipal Services Building, and his humongous portrait on a wall in South Philly has been painted over. Rizzo would probably be amused that he was one of the villains in the recent demonstrations, 30 years after he died.
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One of the sad effects of the ongoing epidemic unpleasantness that might upset literature fans everywhere is the cancellation of the annual Ernest Hemingway Look-Alike Contest.
That supercell thunderstorm that slammed into the region last Wednesday wreaked havoc across the entire Delaware Valley, knocking trees and branches down everywhere, causing power outages for thousands of people, even killing at least four people, including a 49-year-old Roxborough woman who…
Due to the uncertainty of the coronavirus Roxborough High School Class of 1970 is postponing their 50th Reunion originally scheduled for September 26, 2020.
By Rick Cawley
The Hallahan softball team endured a heartbreaking 3-2 loss in 12 innings to Cardinal O'Hara in the 2016 Catholic League semi-finals.
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“Greetings Good Citizens,” begins the weekly email, and I know I’m in for an entertaining read. Filled with puns and asides, the lively message also accomplishes something very important, giving a large group of Roxborough-Manayunk residents a signal as to where the next week’s Two on Tuesda…
One of the strange things about our country is that eight of the United States still celebrate official annual holidays honoring the time, 155 years ago or so, that their ancestors declared war on the U. S. government and tried to quit and form their own country.
CONSHOHOCKEN -- The Pennsylvania office of Duke Realty Corporation (NYSE: DRE), the leading domestic only, pure-play logistics property REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) in the United States, announces that progress on the 615,600-square-foot, build-to-suit warehouse for Max Finkelstein, I…
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