By Amanda L. Snyder
Pennsport residents soon will have a direct link to Center City, as well as access along the riverfront, via a light rail system. Officials said the $364 to $514 million project will stretch east of City Hall on Market Street to the Delaware River and span Girard Avenue to Pier 70, near Snyder Avenue, on Columbus Boulevard. Other local stops will include South, Christian and Reed streets.
By Amanda L. Snyder
“Peter Pan” has been passed down for generations since is debut more than a century ago and the most recent take is at the Arden Theatre, with several locals taking on multiple roles in the family classic.
By Phyllis Stein-Novack
The January blahs have set in. It’s been brutally cold and windy. Although the sun makes an appearance once in a blue moon, it has been mostly gray and dreary. Television commercials have done little to alleviate these blahs. If I see one more ad for a fitness center, diet fad or the best way to lose weight, I’m going to throw the remote at the screen. The one that features food delivered to your door is most annoying.
By Lorraine Gennaro
Four illegal immigrants were charged Monday with conspiracy to run a prostitution ring in various South Philly locations. The accused are Jose Claudio Corona Cotonieto; Raymond Gonzalez Salazar, 27; Nicolas Gonzalez Salazar, 31; and Leonel Rubio, 22. The U.S. Attorney’s Office did not have an age for Cotonieto nor did they have addresses for the four.
