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'Mania' Sweeps Across the Area
The Paul clan of Blue Bell bag all the essentials to ensure a festive Chanukah celebration.
Special Delivery on the Main Line
Everyone likes to order in now and again, but takeout choices can get stale pretty quickly.
5 area schools win U.S. Blue Ribbon honors
Five local schools have been named 2009 U.S. Blue Ribbon Schools. The winners, announced yesterday, are: Bodine High School for International Affairs and Ad Prima Charter School in Philadelphia; Waldron Mercy Academy in Merion Station; Epiphany of Our Lord School in Plymouth Meeting; and Grey Nun Academy in Yardley.
Mitzvah Mania's Getting Geared Up to Warm Hearts -- and Hearths
Labor Day has come and gone, and soon, summer will be just a pleasant memory. In the meantime, Mitzvah Mania coordinators are busily engaged in recruiting volunteers for two community-service projects designed to make the winter warmer for area older adults.
Child-porn teacher gets 'huge break': One day in jail
A federal judge yesterday gave what he called "a huge break" to a former Main Line elementary-school teacher convicted of possessing kiddie porn.
Tip For Real Estate Buyers: Think Big House, Small Back Yard
In a buyer's market, hungry homeowners often think too big, then are shocked when the tax bill arrives.
To have an impact, women pool funds
Impact100 Philadelphia is one of several groups across the nation in which 100 or more women in a community pool $1,000 each to create grants of $100,000 or more.
in Memoriam: a Very Righteous Person: Rev. Franklin H. Littell
FRANKLIN H. LITTELL, world citizen, scholar, theologian, educator, moral ethicist, and dynamo of creative energy and inspiring humanist vision, died at his home in Merion Station, Pennsylvania, Saturday, May 23, 2009.
Stunning Historic Home Priced To Sell In Beautiful Merion Station, PA
Built in the late 1800s, this gorgeous farm home has been completely renovated and upgraded with Viking, Bosch, and Sub Zero appliances.
On the House: Housing downturn, at high end
There's not a whole lot of residential construction going on these days, which is the reason that some builders are cutting to the bone to survive, while others are sailing into Bankruptcy Court, leaving broken dreams in their wake.
Night Train to Calcutta a fundraising success
SPEEDING FORWARD: Calcutta House's April 24 "Night Train to Calcutta" fundraising event brought together about 170 supporters of the HIV/AIDS housing organization, including event co-chairs Jody Marcell , Elizabeth Nourian and Jill Demmy and Calcutta director of development and communications Heather Osborne.
Freighter crewman recounts struggle with pirates
Sailors have a short list of what to grab in an emergency. When the urgent long-short-long-short din of the Maersk Alabama's alarm bell woke third engineer John Cronan on April 8, he didn't hesitate.
Fundraiser for HIV/AIDS housing group Calcutta House, which provides housing and services for the local HIV/AIDS community, will host a fundraising event tonight at 7 at the Merion Tribute House, 626 Hazelhurst Ave.
John Cronan says he may not return to the high seas.
"I looked down the barrel of an AK-47 a couple of times." 46-year-old merchant marine John Cronan recalled the morning of April 8th, when Somali pirates boarded the merchant marine vessel Maersk Alabama.
Premier says Somalia can help fight piracy
As the American skipper once held hostage by pirates headed home early today aboard an executive jet, and his 19-man crew received a heroes' welcome in the United States, the source of the piracy plague in the Indian Ocean - Somalia - said it could help fight the problem.
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