WESTAMPTON TOWNSHIP — A $208,000 grant awarded to Westampton Township Fire Department to help recruit and retain volunteers has made the organization the first in the country to secure three competitive federal grants in a row, officials said Tuesday. The township fire department was awarded a SAFER, or staffing for adequate fire and emergency response, grant…

Rev. G. Dennis Gill acknowledges the numbers are staggering. Next month, Pope Francis will oversee the distribution of Holy Communion to as many as 2 million people gathered on a mile-long parkway in downtown Philadelphia. But, Gill, who is helping oversee the planning for Papal Mass, promises he has everything mapped out. Under his committee\’s choreography,…

PHILADELPHIA, /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey (UWGPSNJ) is pleased to host The Future of Philadelphia: A Mayoral Town Hall Debate. To date, Democratic Candidate Jim Kenney and Republican Candidate Melissa Murray Bailey have confirmed their participation, and invitations have been extended to Third-Party Candidates Osborne Hart, Jim Foster and Boris Kindij. 

Pope Francis will have a nice place to sit when he meets with Philadelphia prisoners next month. Inmates in the city\’s correctional system have been working for the past couple of weeks on a stately chair they hand-carved out of walnut. On Monday, another group of prisoners sanded, oiled and refinished the piece, which stands nearly…

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