Opinion
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Features in Port RichmondThe Local Lens – Sitting in on Service at St. Anne’s
Far from the excessive papal lockdown of Center City, with its fences and overkill road restrictions, the open doors of Saint Anne’s Church on East Lehigh Avenue welcomed a diverse…
Thom Nickels | 10/01/2015 -
Community in Port Richmond
30 Years Later, a Stolen Bike Still Stings
For Christmas in 1983 I asked for a new bike, a dog, and the miniature WWF wrestling ring with Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant figurines. Santa Claus, (aka Big…
Patty-Pat Kozlowski | 08/20/2014 -
Education in Port Richmond
Call To Action: Local Charter School Students Need Your Help
For the better part of the past two years, I have been a teacher at Memphis Street Academy Charter School (formerly John Paul Jones Middle School) in Port Richmond. Memphis…
Jeff Kilpatrick | 05/14/2014 -
Education in Port Richmond
School Choice: Finding the Right School for Your Child
If you’d like to send your child to a different school next year, now’s the time to start the process of researching your options. As Pennsylvania prepares to commemorate National School…
Andrew Campanella | 01/15/2014 -
Lifestyle in Port RichmondArrangement Finders.Com: Thou Shall Not Be Jerks to Third Graders
The religion class lesson plan for third graders attending Catholic schools is to learn and understand the Ten Commandments. Usually, after reciting these moral codes that Catholics are supposed to…
Patty-Pat Kozlowski | 02/20/2013 -
Opinion in Port RichmondThe Big Pilsudski: Is Bowling Night Gone the Way of the Payphone?
My apologies go out to Ginny Szymanski, but I guess I really owe an apology to her old man Joe Szymanski, who it turns out after all these years was…
Patty-Pat Kozlowski | 07/27/2011