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Breezy’s Deli & Market Opens in South Philly, and Its Like a ‘Neighborhood Wawa’
Breezy's Deli & Market is the result of chef and owner Chad Durkin's vision of opening a deli, sandwich shop, and small supermarket focused on the community. When a chef decides to start something similar to Wawa but focused on a neighborhood, the result is the highly anticipated new Breezy’s Deli & Market that opened this past weekend in South Philadelphia, writes Michael Klein for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Rite Aid to close 17 more stores, including 6 in Pa.
Rite Aid has announced that it is closing 17 more stores including six locations in Pennsylvania. The stores are in Dauphin, Centre, Philadelphia, Delaware, Chester and Monroe counties. The company announced the closings in a bankruptcy filing earlier this month. The six stores are located at:. 124 S. Front St.,...
Students, parents pack school board meeting, demand answers after violent attack of student
NORTH WALES, Pa. - Emotional students and parents packed the North Penn School Board meeting Thursday night after a student was violently attacked at Pennbrook Middle School and sent to the hospital. Students and parents addressed the school board to share how the traumatic event impacted them and to ask...
Delaware County Council Gets Push Back on Mental Health Facility Plan
A packed crowd told Delaware County Council Wednesday to abandon plans to use part of the former Don Guanella property as a mental health facility, writes Kathleen E. Carey for the Daily Times. Council acquired the former Don Guanella School property by eminent domain to create the county’s largest park,...
Delaware County Hospital Makes National List of Best Medical Centers
Riddle Hospital made a list of the top 50 medical centers in the U.S. A Delaware County hospital was among three medical centers in the Philadelphia area that made Healthgrades’ list of best hospitals in the nation for 2024. Riddle Hospital in Media was one of two Main Line...
Fatal shootings in Camden, Gloucester Township claim two lives
Two men were shot to death in separate incidents in Camden and Gloucester Township, according to the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office. Desmond Mark Williams, 56, of Camden, was shot around 7 p.m. Monday, April 15, on the 1400 block of Carl Miller Boulevard, the prosecutor’s office said. Fatal...
Police presence at Lansdale pocket park Thursday evening was domestic incident involving shotgun, police say
A domestic incident involving a shotgun caused children and residents to be cleared from York & Susquehanna Park Thursday evening for safety. Lansdale Borough Police Chief Mike Trail told North Penn Now Thursday evening that officers made contact with the subject, and then he left with police. "There is no...
Jury convicts Philly man who tried to abduct teen girl at Montco mall
A Montgomery County jury has found a man accused of trying to abduct a teen girl at a mall last year guilty on all counts. Khalilh Evans, 44, of Philadelphia is now facing jail time for false imprisonment and harassment charges for the incident that happened back in July of last year.
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