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71st Apple Dumpling Festival promises fun for everyone
SINKING SPRING, Pa. - How do you like them apples?. "Oh! Here we are, at the 71st annual Apple Dumpling Festival at Willow Glen Park in Sinking Spring," said owner Patrick Konopelski. Konopelski said this year's fest is sure to be "ap-peeling" for friends, families and neighbors. "The Apple Dumpling...
EPA returns to Lincoln Chemical site as removal of hazardous materials continues
READING, Pa. - More than six months after back-to-back fires tore through the former Lincoln Chemical Company in the 600 block of South 9th Street, much progress has been made in getting the site cleaned up. "There are acids and detergents and some of them are benign and some of...
Family's ordeal highlights infant botulism scare. What causes this rare illness?
PHILADELPHIA — Kevin and Julie McMonagle’s nearly 3-month-old daughter was behaving oddly. Colleen wasn’t finishing her bottles, her pacifier kept falling out of her mouth, and her cry was as quiet as a kitten’s.
Pottstown officials demand answers after rumors spread over Philadelphia homeless encampments
From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know!. As Philadelphia prepares to shut down homeless encampments in Kensington, officials in surrounding counties are expressing concerns that the planned sweep will bring more unhoused residents to their communities.
Pennsylvania mom talks to Marjorie Margolies, who inspired her adoption journey
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Pa. (CBS) — Jennifer Cornley, a special education teacher in Montgomery County, says she always wanted to be a mother.In January 2021, she began researching adoption and decided she wanted an international adoption.In October, there was a match."I got to review her file and see her photos, and it was an instant 'yes' in my heart," Cornley told CBS News Philadelphia.Cornley and her mother flew to Vietnam to meet Cara, who had spent her first three years in an orphanage with hundreds of other children.Cornley describes the moment she first saw Cara."She came over and stood with me...
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