Before boarding a 12-foot Bevin’s Skiff on the reservoir at the Discovery Center at the end of last school year, Northeast High School student Christopher Medina had never been on the water. “I never realized how awkward it was to row, sitting with your back to the front. We did sometimes mess up and did
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On Wednesday, November 16, the Cobbs Creek Foundation held a town hall meeting at the Overbrook Educational Center, the first time that foundation representatives and elected officials faced the public in person to answer questions about the controversial golf course renovation, in which over 100 acres of trees have been cleared by the West Conshohocken-based
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Curtis Jones, the City Council member whose district includes the Cobbs Creek golf courses that are being developed by the Cobbs Creek Foundation, has introduced legislation in Philadelphia City Council to exempt the golf course from restrictions on cutting trees on steep slopes, rules meant to protect water quality and prevent erosion. So far, over
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After being told three times to come back and try again, the Cobbs Creek Foundation had its plans for the driving range and educational center building for their controversial renovation of the Cobbs Creek and Karakung golf courses approved by the Philadelphia Art Commission. As Grid has reported, the City signed a $1, 30-year lease
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If you’re looking for another reason to electrify your house and quit PGW, fresh research describes how scientists with PSE Healthy Energy examining samples of fossil gas from homes across the state of California found volatile organic compounds, including the carcinogen benzene. A study from this summer found similar mixes of pollutants in gas provided
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On a rainy day in early October, clear water flows from the downspout draining the roof of Peter Zettlemoyer’s livestock corral, bound for Manor Creek just down the hill. Two black and white Holstein heifers that Zettlemoyer is raising for a nearby dairy farmer, amble over to the railing that pens them in to check
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As Don Shump, the owner of the Philadelphia Bee Company, prepares to move a bald-faced hornet nest from the side of a large grave marker at Fernwood Cemetery in Lansdowne, he offers some advice. “These girls tend to run and gun. So when they’re mad, they tend to hit you and spin back off for
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Yellow chili peppers grow pointing up from the bushy plant in a raised bed at the Emily South section of the Growing Home Garden in South Philadelphia, looking a bit like a miniature tree decorated with Christmas lights. Leafy green mustard plants sprout from a nearby bed that had apparently been turned over recently for
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The City of Philadelphia and four disabled people — Tony Brooks, Liam Dougherty, Fran Fulton and Louis Olivo — who sued to require the City to provide accessible sidewalks and street crossings as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) have announced a proposed settlement to avert a lawsuit. The City will install ADA-compliant
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If you take SEPTA, you probably have both feelings about its performance and ideas for how to improve it, including how to better route the buses. Here’s your chance to provide some feedback: SEPTA has released a proposed overhaul to its bus route system. While the level of service would remain the same, the system
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