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Enjoy Outdoor Dining in Montgomery County at These Local Restaurants
With summer nearly here, it is a prime time to start enjoying al fresco dining at one of the local eateries that offer outside seating. With summer nearly here, it is a prime time to start enjoying al fresco dining at one of the local eateries that offer picturesque and comfortable outside seating along with delicious food, writes Hira Qureshi for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
This Montgomery County Farmers Market is Considered a Must-Visit
The Ambler Farmers Market is considered a must-visit farmers market in Pennsylvania, standing out for its dedication to community. The Ambler Farmers Market is considered a must-visit farmers market in Pennsylvania, writes Emily Kovach for PA Eats. As farmers markets gain popularity nationwide, the Ambler market, located at 29 W....
Philadelphia awards bulk of $3 million in opioid settlement grants to nonprofits working in North Philly and Kensington
From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know!. Philadelphia is prioritizing some of its opioid settlement dollars for overdose prevention, addiction treatment and social services in communities most affected by the opioid epidemic. About 43 nonprofit...
Advocates push for EBT cards with chip technology to prevent stolen SNAP benefits
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- More than two million Pennsylvanians receive SNAP benefits, formerly known as food stamps, including nearly 500,000 people in Philadelphia, according to the PA Department of Human Services. Since last week, CBS News Philadelphia has been reporting on widespread issues, robbing people of money they need to feed their families.CBS News Philadelphia Investigations uncovered this ongoing breach happening across the Philadelphia region and the nation could have been prevented by making a common upgrade to the debit card itself.SNAP benefit recipients use debit cards with a magnetic strip and PIN rather than the more secure chip cards. Advocates and some lawmakers...
4,000 properties in Philadelphia deemed unsafe after City Controller's Office investigates
PHILADELPHIA - It’s been 11 years since the deadly Market Street collapse when six people were killed when a building being demolished fell onto a thrift store. That incident has led to many investigations of the Department of Licenses and Inspections over the years. On Wednesday, the city reported...
Pa. city’s favorite dog breed is ‘outgoing, trustworthy,’ and ‘joyous’
PennLive recently covered a report revealing the favorite dog name of one city in Pennsylvania. Now a separate report has found that same city’s favorite dog breed. U.S News & World Report — which is described under its “Who We Are” section as “a multifaceted digital media company dedicated to helping consumers, business leaders and policy officials make important decisions in their lives” through “independent reporting, rankings, journalism and advice that has earned the trust of our readers and users for more than 90 years” — was behind this report, which was simply titled “The Most Popular U.S. Dog Breeds by City.”
Landfill Moves Designed to Reduce Waste, Trash Incineration in Delaware County
A bulldozer moves trash around at the Delaware County Solid Waste Authority-owned Rolling Hills landfill in southeastern Berks County. Within three years, more than a quarter million tons of trash from Delaware County will find its way to a Berks County landfill in an effort to reduce Chester trash incineration at the ReWorld, formerly Covanta, waste to steam plant, writes Kathleen E. Carey for the Daily Times.
LVHN opens new neighborhood hospital in Montgomery County
Lehigh Valley Health Network opened the second of its new neighborhood hospitals Tuesday morning. The 22,000-square-foot Lehigh Valley Hospital–Gilbertsville at 1109 Grosser Road, Douglass Township, is the network’s first hospital in Montgomery County. Following a similar blueprint to LVH-Macungie, which opened in March, this hospital is smaller in scale but still has an 11-bay, full-service ...
A 19th century mansion in Montgomery County is being given away for free ... under one condition
On a large property near the Philadelphia Premium Outlets in Limerick, there's an abandoned brownstone mansion that once was a summer home for the family of a prosperous Irish immigrant. Constructed in 1834, the house boasts 17 rooms and eight fireplaces across roughly 5,000 square feet. It belonged to John...
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