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 by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 01/02/12 9:30 am | updated: 01/02/12 9:30 am |
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Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput is seeking to sell the large estate in Overbrook where he lives.
A source says the proposal to sell the archbishops' residence has been presented to the priests' counsel and the finance counsel and now has only to be approved by the Vatican.
The source also says the bishop does not want to continue to live in such splendor in the eight-plus acre estate when he is about to ask area Catholics to accept sacrifices in the... Read More |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 01/02/12 9:28 am | updated: 01/02/12 9:28 am |
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According to a top tourism official, it was a rip-roaring New Year's holiday in terms of bringing people to enjoy the festivities in Philadelphia.
Meryl Levitz, president and CEO of the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation noted:
"Franklin Square had 15-hundred people for the "square drop." Both skating parties at Penn's landing sold out. The preliminary numbers for the fireworks for the New Year's Eve 6 pm show were 50-thousand on both sides of the... Read More |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 01/02/12 9:27 am | updated: 01/02/12 9:27 am |
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Mayor Michael Nutter was sworn in for a second term at an Inaugural Ceremony at the Academy of Music.
In his inaugural speech, Mayor Nutter addressed several challenges the city faces including violence, with six murders this New Year’s weekend in Philadelphia. Mayor Nutter talked about some of his plans including implementing 120 new police officers by this summer.
He also said public education is the other major challenge facing this city.
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 12/29/11 7:47 am | updated: 12/29/11 7:47 am |
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Hockey's Winter Classic is January 2nd between the Flyers and New York Rangers. One of the other many outdoor hockey games on tap for Citizens Bank Park next week will be a college battle between 14-2 Penn State and 7-3 Neumann University on January 4th.
Neumann is one of the top squads in Division III while Penn State is transitioning up to the Division I level from club status in the ACHA. Nittany Lions head coach Guy Gadowsky says that transition is going quite well.Read More |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 12/29/11 7:44 am | updated: 12/29/11 7:44 am |
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Opponents of a plan to form a new Camden County Police Department, with the city of Camden it's one and only participant, have laid out their plans to kill the whole idea before it ever gets started.
Police union leaders were flanked by community activists on the steps of Camden City Hall. Former city councilman Ali Sloan-El believes the move to a countywide force isn’t meant to keep the people safe, “That is union busting and that is taking our rights and this is a takeover... Read More |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 12/29/11 7:42 am | updated: 12/29/11 7:42 am |
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Mayor Nutter named 77-year-old Sonia Sanchez, a noted poet and teacher, the city's first poet laureate.
Nutter says Sanchez "exemplifies the role a poet can play in helping to define a city and helping its citizens discover beauty."
Sanchez, who lives in west Philadelphia, says she has already fielded congratulations from fellow writers Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison. She says people are telling her she's been the city's unofficial poet laureate for years.Read More |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 12/26/11 6:26 pm | updated: 12/26/11 6:26 pm |
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The African American Cultural and Arts Center and Museum in Camden held its 10th annual Kwanzaa Celebration on Monday afternoon to mark the first of the seven principles of the holiday.
It included music, an acknowledgment of the elders, a sign of respect to those that have died, and a candle lighting ceremony in which the black candle is lit symbolizing the first principle of Kwanzaa which is unity.
One principle is celebrated each day from December 26th through... Read More |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 12/26/11 6:24 pm | updated: 12/26/11 6:24 pm |
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A law imposing new restrictions on teen drivers in Pennsylvania goes into effect Tuesday December 27. Lacey's Law is named after Lacey Gallagher who died in the spring of 2007 while riding in a crowded SUV when the vehicle lost control on the PA turnkpike.
New provisions include increasing the behind-the-wheel training for young drivers by 15 hours.
The law limits the number of passengers a young driver may transport to no more than one passenger who is under 18... Read More |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 12/26/11 6:22 pm | updated: 12/26/11 6:22 pm |
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Philly hip hop band, The Roots released their 13th album this month titled Undun, and it's their first concept album.
Undun narrates the story of a bootstrapping hustler in reverse, from death to birth.
The group has also released a short film to coincide with the album, directed by Clifton Bell and telling the story of a young man named Redford Stephens who chooses a life of crime which some call an impressive pictorial story.
The film... Read More |
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by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 12/22/11 6:56 am | updated: 12/22/11 6:56 am |
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A sixth person has come out alleging sexual abuse as a child at the hands of Daily News sports writer, Bill Conlin.
The Inquirer broke the original story Tuesday, reporting that three women and a man said that Conlin had abused them when they were children in the 1970s.
Prosecutors in Gloucester County, where some of the alleged abuse occurred, could not bring criminal charges because assaults before 1996 fall outside the statute of limitations.
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