Organizers of the “Dyke Pride Dance” are hoping for a big turnout Friday, May 15, at Summit Presbyterian Church in Mt. Airy, one one of the most gay-friendly communities in the United States.

Acclaimed organist Mark Laubach, who has served as organist and choirmaster at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Wilkes-Barre since 1986, will present an organ recital on Friday, May 8 at St. Paul’s ...

A pollinator garden on an underutilized campus space at Norwood-Fontbonne Academy. Fruit trees at Redeemer Valley Farm for donations at their HUD facility and food pantry. Native trees to replace ...

ArchWell Health, a new primary care center for patients ages 60 and up, is now open in Germantown, with a business model designed not just for a specific age group but to address pricing, geography, ...

It is no secret that a visit to a supermarket, grocery store or upscale restaurant these days might result in a painful case of sticker shock thanks in part to inflation and the spike in gasoline ...

Vendors lined Germantown Avenue on Sunday for the Chestnut Hill Home & Garden Festival, with throngs of visitors taking in ...

As the Chestnut Hill Local this month will celebrate the start of its 68th year, we bring you the story of one of the area’s first newspapers, founded by an ambitious businessman who came to ...

As a nationally recognized expert on patient advocacy, Betty Long has testified before Congress. So she’s familiar with the arena. Yet even with her experience, politics leaves her, to use her word, ...

They end up in places like mine. I work in a supportive housing program in Philadelphia. We are not a hospital. We are not staffed like one. We are not resourced like one. But we are expected to ...

First, I would like to increase funding for the preservation of historic buildings. As we filmed this morning, we are actually in a designated historic building built in 1880 that commemorates some of ...

Two weeks before the May 19 primary election, the Local invited the candidates running for Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional ...

The Philadelphia Board of Education voted 6-3 last Thursday to approve Superintendent Tony B. Watlington Sr.’s $3 billion plan to close 17 schools, including some in Northwest Philadelphia.