Year: 2014

We recently spoke with Jasmine, new daytime manager at the Trolley Car Cafe at the Bathey. [more…]

Some fun with local landmarks we’ve spooky-fied for the season… [more…]

Recent news about the Schuylkill River boardwalk is just one of many ways Philadelphia’s been working to improve our “relationship” with our city’s rivers. East Falls has its own plan in the works. [more…]

Halfball is a historic neighborhood game, long played in the streets of East Falls. Emilio Straface and his sister Sandy of Franks Pizza hosted a big day of food, fun and friendly faces. [more…]

Artist’s market at Mifflin Elementary brought out some neat vendors. [more…]

Who hasn’t seen the Falls Bridge fishermen and winced at the thought of eating fish out of the Schuylkill? Are they even edible? Are they radioactive or full of PCBs or BPAs or WMDs or something…?? [more…]

“The repetition of serious or fatal accidents, by which men, women and children are crushed, decapitated, cut in two, or dismembered loses its effect by its frequency. The cases fall one by one, upon the public; we are told that, in the usual phrase – “the accident was inevitable and no blame is to be attached to the driver;” the survivors gather up the reeking remains of the victim – and the matter passes away and is forgotten.” [more…]