Upper RoxboroughCity Council members threaten to shut down vote on facilities plan that would close 17 Philly schoolsIn an extraordinary muscle flex, 10 City Council members threatened a broad range of actions, from lawsuits and injunctions to civil disobedience and blocking reappointments of school board members.Kristen A. Graham and Sean Collins Walsh Unauthorized immigrants who are crime victims can get special visas. A new Philly bill aims to hasten the process. | City Council roundupSean Collins Walsh and Kristen A. Graham City Council members are trying to save Lankenau High School from closure with zoning legislationKristen A. Graham Two Philly high schools are still fighting their proposed closures, even after officials tweaked plans to appease themKristen A. Graham Changes to Philly’s special-admission process exacerbated low enrollment at some magnets. Now, the district is trying to close them.Kristen A. Graham AdvertisementPhilly Council president says he’ll hold up school funding over the closure and consolidation plan ‘if need be’Johnson’s public insistence that Council members effectively have veto power over parts of the district’s long-awaited facilities master plan raises the stakes ahead of a Feb. 17 hearing.Anna Orso and Kristen A. Graham House of the week: A six-bedroom in Upper Roxborough for $725,000The stone house has many of its original features, including a leaded glass transom at the entry and ribboned hardwood floors.Paul Jablow, For The Inquirer Slashed tires, open fire hydrants, picket line dust-ups: Tensions rise on the first day of Philly’s city worker strikeMinor confrontations captured on video spread across social media, highlighting the tensions of Philadelphia’s first major city worker strike since 1986.Sean Collins Walsh, Ellie Rushing, and Fallon Roth OpinionBlack women welcome allies, but we need accomplicesAllies are those who will advocate for your rights and position. But what all Black women need is an army of accomplices who willingly get in the trenches to fight alongside you.Stephanie Renée, For The Inquirer Who gave $3 million so the Schuylkill Center could preserve a tract of land? Two sisters.The donors have been revealed as two sisters that hold positions at Philadelphia-based Berwind Corp., a family-owned investment management firm.Frank Kummer A Philadelphia man riding a scooter who shot an off-duty police officer has been arrestedA Philadelphia man who police say exchanged gunfire with an off-duty police officer was arrested Tuesday.Rodrigo Torrejón A $3M donation will preserve 24 acres of fought-over woods in RoxboroughThe nonprofit Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education announced the gift Wednesday that will be used to preserve what's known locally as the Boy Scout tract.Frank Kummer Nicolas Elizalde, 14, laid to rest with a kindness he wasn’t afforded in deathNick was fatally shot outside of Roxborough High School last week after a football scrimmage. “This is a test to us,” said Imam Kenneth Nuriddin. “We are losing our youth.”Ellie Rushing Schuylkill Center: ‘Boy Scout’ tract could be preserved, controversial development plan put on holdThe center’s board said it has “several potential opportunities for preservation” for the heavily wooded land on Port Royal Avenue in Upper Roxborough.Frank Kummer Plan to sell off former scout camp for development in Roxborough rattles neighborsCommunity questions centered on why an environmental center would sell land rather than keep it whole.Frank Kummer Helping baby toads is their labor of loveVolunteers organized by the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education are helping baby toads cross Port Royal Avenue in Roxborough as the American toad breeding season winds down.Kevin Riordan Roxborough is attracting a flood of developers, renters, and home buyers Roxborough is outpacing the city as a whole in percentage growth of residents and new housing units. The number of rental units in the 19128 zip code is growing the fastest.Michaelle Bond After being hit twice by tranquilizer darts, elusive black bear captured in PhillyThe sighting comes just a day after officials spotted a bear on train tracks in East Falls.Patricia Madej, Joseph A. Gambardello, and Mariah Rush There are fewer 5-star rated Philadelphia-area nursing homes under new federal systemThe number of 1-star facilities in the eight-county region, which has a total of 236 nursing homes, jumped 58 percent, to 38 from 24. One of those was the Delaware County-owned Fair Acres Geriatric Center — the largest nursing home in the region by far — saw its rating fall from 4 to 1.Harold Brubaker Man, 32, dead in Upper Roxborough double shootingThe victims were found about 10:20 p.m. in the 7700 block of Matthias Street.Robert Moran See more storiesAdvertisement
City Council members threaten to shut down vote on facilities plan that would close 17 Philly schoolsIn an extraordinary muscle flex, 10 City Council members threatened a broad range of actions, from lawsuits and injunctions to civil disobedience and blocking reappointments of school board members.Kristen A. Graham and Sean Collins Walsh
City Council members threaten to shut down vote on facilities plan that would close 17 Philly schoolsIn an extraordinary muscle flex, 10 City Council members threatened a broad range of actions, from lawsuits and injunctions to civil disobedience and blocking reappointments of school board members.Kristen A. Graham and Sean Collins Walsh
Unauthorized immigrants who are crime victims can get special visas. A new Philly bill aims to hasten the process. | City Council roundupSean Collins Walsh and Kristen A. Graham
Unauthorized immigrants who are crime victims can get special visas. A new Philly bill aims to hasten the process. | City Council roundupSean Collins Walsh and Kristen A. Graham
City Council members are trying to save Lankenau High School from closure with zoning legislationKristen A. Graham
City Council members are trying to save Lankenau High School from closure with zoning legislationKristen A. Graham
Two Philly high schools are still fighting their proposed closures, even after officials tweaked plans to appease themKristen A. Graham
Two Philly high schools are still fighting their proposed closures, even after officials tweaked plans to appease themKristen A. Graham
Changes to Philly’s special-admission process exacerbated low enrollment at some magnets. Now, the district is trying to close them.Kristen A. Graham
Changes to Philly’s special-admission process exacerbated low enrollment at some magnets. Now, the district is trying to close them.Kristen A. Graham
Philly Council president says he’ll hold up school funding over the closure and consolidation plan ‘if need be’Johnson’s public insistence that Council members effectively have veto power over parts of the district’s long-awaited facilities master plan raises the stakes ahead of a Feb. 17 hearing.Anna Orso and Kristen A. Graham
Philly Council president says he’ll hold up school funding over the closure and consolidation plan ‘if need be’Johnson’s public insistence that Council members effectively have veto power over parts of the district’s long-awaited facilities master plan raises the stakes ahead of a Feb. 17 hearing.Anna Orso and Kristen A. Graham
House of the week: A six-bedroom in Upper Roxborough for $725,000The stone house has many of its original features, including a leaded glass transom at the entry and ribboned hardwood floors.Paul Jablow, For The Inquirer
House of the week: A six-bedroom in Upper Roxborough for $725,000The stone house has many of its original features, including a leaded glass transom at the entry and ribboned hardwood floors.Paul Jablow, For The Inquirer
Slashed tires, open fire hydrants, picket line dust-ups: Tensions rise on the first day of Philly’s city worker strikeMinor confrontations captured on video spread across social media, highlighting the tensions of Philadelphia’s first major city worker strike since 1986.Sean Collins Walsh, Ellie Rushing, and Fallon Roth
Slashed tires, open fire hydrants, picket line dust-ups: Tensions rise on the first day of Philly’s city worker strikeMinor confrontations captured on video spread across social media, highlighting the tensions of Philadelphia’s first major city worker strike since 1986.Sean Collins Walsh, Ellie Rushing, and Fallon Roth
OpinionBlack women welcome allies, but we need accomplicesAllies are those who will advocate for your rights and position. But what all Black women need is an army of accomplices who willingly get in the trenches to fight alongside you.Stephanie Renée, For The Inquirer
OpinionBlack women welcome allies, but we need accomplicesAllies are those who will advocate for your rights and position. But what all Black women need is an army of accomplices who willingly get in the trenches to fight alongside you.Stephanie Renée, For The Inquirer
Who gave $3 million so the Schuylkill Center could preserve a tract of land? Two sisters.The donors have been revealed as two sisters that hold positions at Philadelphia-based Berwind Corp., a family-owned investment management firm.Frank Kummer
Who gave $3 million so the Schuylkill Center could preserve a tract of land? Two sisters.The donors have been revealed as two sisters that hold positions at Philadelphia-based Berwind Corp., a family-owned investment management firm.Frank Kummer
A Philadelphia man riding a scooter who shot an off-duty police officer has been arrestedA Philadelphia man who police say exchanged gunfire with an off-duty police officer was arrested Tuesday.Rodrigo Torrejón
A Philadelphia man riding a scooter who shot an off-duty police officer has been arrestedA Philadelphia man who police say exchanged gunfire with an off-duty police officer was arrested Tuesday.Rodrigo Torrejón
A $3M donation will preserve 24 acres of fought-over woods in RoxboroughThe nonprofit Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education announced the gift Wednesday that will be used to preserve what's known locally as the Boy Scout tract.Frank Kummer
A $3M donation will preserve 24 acres of fought-over woods in RoxboroughThe nonprofit Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education announced the gift Wednesday that will be used to preserve what's known locally as the Boy Scout tract.Frank Kummer
Nicolas Elizalde, 14, laid to rest with a kindness he wasn’t afforded in deathNick was fatally shot outside of Roxborough High School last week after a football scrimmage. “This is a test to us,” said Imam Kenneth Nuriddin. “We are losing our youth.”Ellie Rushing
Nicolas Elizalde, 14, laid to rest with a kindness he wasn’t afforded in deathNick was fatally shot outside of Roxborough High School last week after a football scrimmage. “This is a test to us,” said Imam Kenneth Nuriddin. “We are losing our youth.”Ellie Rushing
Schuylkill Center: ‘Boy Scout’ tract could be preserved, controversial development plan put on holdThe center’s board said it has “several potential opportunities for preservation” for the heavily wooded land on Port Royal Avenue in Upper Roxborough.Frank Kummer
Schuylkill Center: ‘Boy Scout’ tract could be preserved, controversial development plan put on holdThe center’s board said it has “several potential opportunities for preservation” for the heavily wooded land on Port Royal Avenue in Upper Roxborough.Frank Kummer
Plan to sell off former scout camp for development in Roxborough rattles neighborsCommunity questions centered on why an environmental center would sell land rather than keep it whole.Frank Kummer
Plan to sell off former scout camp for development in Roxborough rattles neighborsCommunity questions centered on why an environmental center would sell land rather than keep it whole.Frank Kummer
Helping baby toads is their labor of loveVolunteers organized by the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education are helping baby toads cross Port Royal Avenue in Roxborough as the American toad breeding season winds down.Kevin Riordan
Helping baby toads is their labor of loveVolunteers organized by the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education are helping baby toads cross Port Royal Avenue in Roxborough as the American toad breeding season winds down.Kevin Riordan
Roxborough is attracting a flood of developers, renters, and home buyers Roxborough is outpacing the city as a whole in percentage growth of residents and new housing units. The number of rental units in the 19128 zip code is growing the fastest.Michaelle Bond
Roxborough is attracting a flood of developers, renters, and home buyers Roxborough is outpacing the city as a whole in percentage growth of residents and new housing units. The number of rental units in the 19128 zip code is growing the fastest.Michaelle Bond
After being hit twice by tranquilizer darts, elusive black bear captured in PhillyThe sighting comes just a day after officials spotted a bear on train tracks in East Falls.Patricia Madej, Joseph A. Gambardello, and Mariah Rush
After being hit twice by tranquilizer darts, elusive black bear captured in PhillyThe sighting comes just a day after officials spotted a bear on train tracks in East Falls.Patricia Madej, Joseph A. Gambardello, and Mariah Rush
There are fewer 5-star rated Philadelphia-area nursing homes under new federal systemThe number of 1-star facilities in the eight-county region, which has a total of 236 nursing homes, jumped 58 percent, to 38 from 24. One of those was the Delaware County-owned Fair Acres Geriatric Center — the largest nursing home in the region by far — saw its rating fall from 4 to 1.Harold Brubaker
There are fewer 5-star rated Philadelphia-area nursing homes under new federal systemThe number of 1-star facilities in the eight-county region, which has a total of 236 nursing homes, jumped 58 percent, to 38 from 24. One of those was the Delaware County-owned Fair Acres Geriatric Center — the largest nursing home in the region by far — saw its rating fall from 4 to 1.Harold Brubaker
Man, 32, dead in Upper Roxborough double shootingThe victims were found about 10:20 p.m. in the 7700 block of Matthias Street.Robert Moran
Man, 32, dead in Upper Roxborough double shootingThe victims were found about 10:20 p.m. in the 7700 block of Matthias Street.Robert Moran
