A Fairmount Park project that could convert five acres of a parcel known as Manatawna Farms that stretches between Philadelphia and Whitemarsh Township has neighbors in the area concerned about potential harm the farming might have on the environment and wildlife.
The plan, detailed in an eight-page Request for Information issued from the city’s Department of Parks and Recreation, would convert “up to five acres of Manatawna property to commercial, chemical-free farming.” The plan calls for the five-acre section to be divided into 10 half-acre plots. MoRE
Joe Small was part of this year’s main attraction — the Taiko Drummers — at the Morris Arboretum’s annual Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival. Small and the rest of his troupe of Swarthmore students entertained a big crowd at the arboretum for an hour last Sunday, April 18. (Photo by Brian Rudnick)
We’ve all heard the saying that a dog is man’s best friend — and for six Chestnut Hill area women, a dog is also woman’s best friend. In fact, it was having to walk those dogs every day that brought them together to form WOW, or Women of the Woods. More
There are few people more loathsome in this country than the members of the Westboro Baptist Church.
Founded in Topeka, Kan., by Fred W. Phelps in 1955, members of the church – according to recent court documents, 50 of the church’s 70 members are blood relatives and in-laws – have travelled around the country, picketing the funerals of soldiers killed in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. MorE
4th annual Germantown Poetry Fest Germantown Friends School junior Lauren Ballester and senior Jalessa Mungin, both of Germantown, performed at the 4th Annual Germantown Poetry Festival at GFS on April 17. Lauren also served as an MC and Jalessa was the festival intern. More
Mount St. Joseph Academy has the overall enrollment and the level of participation in athletics to sustain healthy rosters in four spring sports, but that’s not true of all of its colleagues in the Athletic Association of Catholic Academies. More
AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
Repairing loose bits of fence that are sticking out that might puncture one of our kids, cutting electrical ties that were hanging up signs and backstops.
DOES IT LOOK LIKE YOU’LL BE READY FOR THE BIG DAY SATURDAY? We’ll always be ready for opening day. We might be crazy, crazy, crazy but we will be ready to go. The Phanatic will be there, he’s looking forward to it…it’s looking good other than that field.”
—Joe Pie, Chestnut Hill Youth Sports Junior Baseball Commissioner.
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