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In 2019, we changed our name to The Local when we branched out to Germantown & other surrounding NW Philly neighborhoods. A printed local news publication is crucial for neighborhoods undergoing the growth & change we're seeing today. Instead of donations, we appreciate your support in likes, shares and comments, here and on nwlocalpaper.com. Your engagement immediately directs who we talk to and
Operating as usual
Live with Sheena on the air at Uptown Radio WJYN 98.5 FM ! We've stuck about 200 neighbors, still an hour to go -- if you or someone you know needs a booster -- or a 1st vaccine -- come on by! Walk ups welcome, your choice Pfizer, Moderna or J&J while supplies last.
Vaccines & Boosters all day today (until 4pm). Things are rolling like a well-oiled machine... Come by if you need a shot -- all three available. If you were vaccinated before summer, a booster is recommend.
PLUCK UP! Covid cases are rising again, and a new Delta variant is mutating disturbingly fast thru unvaccinated hosts, aka asymptomatic spreaders who might not realize the harm they're doing. To stop the virus, we need to stop giving it the chance to infect new people. That's how it "learns" to get around vaccines & anti-viral drugs.
The science is fascinating! Dr. Woodson lays out the latest facts about COVID, with interesting videos and links to more information -- including a free vaccine and booster event Thursday November 18th: https://nwlocalpaper.com/its-go-time
DrLorenzo Woodson #vaccinehesitency #covidfacts
PLUCK UP! Covid cases are rising again, and a new Delta variant is mutating disturbingly fast thru unvaccinated hosts, aka asymptomatic spreaders who might not realize the harm they're doing. To stop the virus, we need to stop giving it the chance to infect new people. That's how it "learns" to get around vaccines & anti-viral drugs.
The science is fascinating! Dr. Woodson lays out the latest facts about COVID, with interesting videos and links to more information -- including a free vaccine and booster event Thursday November 18th: https://nwlocalpaper.com/its-go-time
DrLorenzo Woodson #vaccinehesitency #covidfacts
🎉🎶💃🌈 BOOSTER BASH! Come out for a vaccine clinic that's a bona fide party, with snacks, swag, and the swinging sounds of Uptown Radio's Greatest Hits.
Visiting Nurse Association will be providing all three vaccines -- both as boosters *AND* for people who have not yet been vaccinated. Bring your vaccination card if you have it (if not, one will be provided).
Since the weather is expected to be nice, local organizations and services will be setting up tables so guests can browse resources & information while checking in.
Thursday November 18, 9am to 4pm at
The First Presbyterian Church In Germantown
All Welcome (FREE)
**FYI: You need a booster if it's been 6 months since you completed Pfizer/Moderna, or 2 months for J&J** The FDA is expected to authorize boosters for all adults before the week is over.
If you or someone you love needs a vaccine or booster, please come out!
Local Resource Center
VNA of Philadelphia
Dedicated Senior Medical Center
Aetna
Germantown Avenue Crisis Ministry
Uptown Radio WJYN 98.5 FM
WHYY
🎉🎶💃🌈 BOOSTER BASH! Come out for a vaccine clinic that's a bona fide party, with snacks, swag, and the swinging sounds of Uptown Radio's Greatest Hits.
Visiting Nurse Association will be providing all three vaccines -- both as boosters *AND* for people who have not yet been vaccinated. Bring your vaccination card if you have it (if not, one will be provided).
Since the weather is expected to be nice, local organizations and services will be setting up tables so guests can browse resources & information while checking in.
Thursday November 18, 9am to 4pm at
The First Presbyterian Church In Germantown
All Welcome (FREE)
**FYI: You need a booster if it's been 6 months since you completed Pfizer/Moderna, or 2 months for J&J** The FDA is expected to authorize boosters for all adults before the week is over.
If you or someone you love needs a vaccine or booster, please come out!
Local Resource Center
VNA of Philadelphia
Dedicated Senior Medical Center
Aetna
Germantown Avenue Crisis Ministry
Uptown Radio WJYN 98.5 FM
WHYY
☝️🌃 JUST ONE NIGHT – In an exercise in empathy and activism, dozens of Philadelphians camped out at City Hall last week, in solidarity with the City’s 6,000+ unhoused adults and children facing the long, cold winter ahead. Attendees demanded Mayor Kenney move faster to appropriate the nearly 130,000 unused/abandoned houses that could be rehabbed to provide emergency shelter.
People talked and brainstormed well into the frosty night. “Sh*t has to change,” said Jamaal Henderson of ACT UP Philly. “We need to unite against do-gooderism, and demand power not pity.” Organizations are coordinating a Winter Offensive to advocate and provide for the needs and safety of neighbors suffering in the current housing crisis. ❄️❄️❄️
Learn More in Cory Clark’s unflinching account from the event, where protesters choked on tire fire fumes, and deadly gunshots were fired nearby in Love Park. With photos, links and info on what's being done now, and how you can help: https://nwlocalpaper.com/operation-winter-offensive
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Lawless Media LLC ACT UP Philadelphia Pennsylvania Union of the Homeless PA Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival #AffordableHousing
☝️🌃 JUST ONE NIGHT – In an exercise in empathy and activism, dozens of Philadelphians camped out at City Hall last week, in solidarity with the City’s 6,000+ unhoused adults and children facing the long, cold winter ahead. Attendees demanded Mayor Kenney move faster to appropriate the nearly 130,000 unused/abandoned houses that could be rehabbed to provide emergency shelter.
People talked and brainstormed well into the frosty night. “Sh*t has to change,” said Jamaal Henderson of ACT UP Philly. “We need to unite against do-gooderism, and demand power not pity.” Organizations are coordinating a Winter Offensive to advocate and provide for the needs and safety of neighbors suffering in the current housing crisis. ❄️❄️❄️
Learn More in Cory Clark’s unflinching account from the event, where protesters choked on tire fire fumes, and deadly gunshots were fired nearby in Love Park. With photos, links and info on what's being done now, and how you can help: https://nwlocalpaper.com/operation-winter-offensive
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Lawless Media LLC ACT UP Philadelphia Pennsylvania Union of the Homeless PA Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival #AffordableHousing
We're peaking, people! 🤩🍁🍂
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#fallcolor #autumnvibes🍁 #nwlocal #localpaper #localphotos #autumlicious
We're peaking, people! 🤩🍁🍂
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#fallcolor #autumnvibes🍁 #nwlocal #localpaper #localphotos #autumlicious
Shades of November
Shades of November
VOTE FOR N.I.C.E!!! A big grassroots news grant is up for grabs, and WHYY's News & Information Exchange is one of 4 finalists from 100+ candidates across the country. They're announcing the winner today at 2pm, all welcome to attend and add your vote of support. Please register for free at the link, and thank you from the bottom of our ink-stained hearts. 📰🖤🙏
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2021-local-that-works-grand-finale-tickets-195888025357?mc_cid=6dcd77da7b&mc_eid=a96ea58e39
Join us for a celebration of excellence in local public service media as four finalists compete for a $20,000 grand prize.
😱💣🚂 TANKERS OF TROUBLE: For the first time in US history, a highly-explosive methane gas may be shipped by rail across the river from East Falls, Manayunk, Roxborough & other North Philly neighborhoods.
Until 2019, shipping "liquified natural gas" (LNG) so close to populated areas was considered too dangerous -- the potential explosive energy of a single 30,000 gallon tanker car is equal to 620 tons of dynamite. LNG trains are often miles long, linking hundreds of cars. An explosion could cause destruction akin to an atomic bomb! 🧨🧨🧨🔥
Even a mere leak could generate flammable v***r clouds that can ignite on-site or drift with the wind and blow up elsewhere. Liquidized gas can also overheat and v***rize within a tanker, in which case the increased pressure rips out in a massive fireball. Oh yeah, even without exploding, LNG v***r clouds can asphyxiate if you inhale enough to displace the air in your lungs... ⚰️☠️👎
So why is this legal? What happened in 2019 to allow this gross public safety hazard, and what can be done to reverse the risk? All you need to know about "bomb trains" at the link, including a petition you can put your name on today, that might help stop a disaster tomorrow: https://nwlocalpaper.com/fright-train 🙏🙏🙏
Delaware Riverkeeper Network #NoBombTrains #LNG
😱💣🚂 TANKERS OF TROUBLE: For the first time in US history, a highly-explosive methane gas may be shipped by rail across the river from East Falls, Manayunk, Roxborough & other North Philly neighborhoods.
Until 2019, shipping "liquified natural gas" (LNG) so close to populated areas was considered too dangerous -- the potential explosive energy of a single 30,000 gallon tanker car is equal to 620 tons of dynamite. LNG trains are often miles long, linking hundreds of cars. An explosion could cause destruction akin to an atomic bomb! 🧨🧨🧨🔥
Even a mere leak could generate flammable v***r clouds that can ignite on-site or drift with the wind and blow up elsewhere. Liquidized gas can also overheat and v***rize within a tanker, in which case the increased pressure rips out in a massive fireball. Oh yeah, even without exploding, LNG v***r clouds can asphyxiate if you inhale enough to displace the air in your lungs... ⚰️☠️👎
So why is this legal? What happened in 2019 to allow this gross public safety hazard, and what can be done to reverse the risk? All you need to know about "bomb trains" at the link, including a petition you can put your name on today, that might help stop a disaster tomorrow: https://nwlocalpaper.com/fright-train 🙏🙏🙏
Delaware Riverkeeper Network #NoBombTrains #LNG
Happy Saturday from the fire pits at Attic Brewing Company
Think Fast! Decide what you want on your library brick before they're all gone. Just $100 for a little slice of local immortality that supports an important neighborhood resource -- details at the link: https://nwlocalpaper.com/we-kiln-do-this
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#buyabrick #eastfalls #fallsers
Think Fast! Decide what you want on your library brick before they're all gone. Just $100 for a little slice of local immortality that supports an important neighborhood resource -- details at the link: https://nwlocalpaper.com/we-kiln-do-this
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#buyabrick #eastfalls #fallsers
🙌🏆🌱 Best in Grow -- We think so!!
Here's to the vendors & volunteers that make East Falls Farmers' Market the special place it is! Justine reviews this local shopping spot, and spills the tea on upcoming holiday fun that you won't wanna miss! 🦃 🎁 ❄ 🎄
Read all about it today: https://nwlocalpaper.com/best-in-grow
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#eastfalls #eastfallsphilly #eastfallsfoodie #eastfallsfoodscene #eastfallsfarmersmarket #phillyfarmersmarket #justineeatstheworld #alwayscarryabib #localfood #eatlocal #shoplocal #supportlocal #supportsmallbusiness
🙌🏆🌱 Best in Grow -- We think so!!
Here's to the vendors & volunteers that make East Falls Farmers' Market the special place it is! Justine reviews this local shopping spot, and spills the tea on upcoming holiday fun that you won't wanna miss! 🦃 🎁 ❄ 🎄
Read all about it today: https://nwlocalpaper.com/best-in-grow
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#eastfalls #eastfallsphilly #eastfallsfoodie #eastfallsfoodscene #eastfallsfarmersmarket #phillyfarmersmarket #justineeatstheworld #alwayscarryabib #localfood #eatlocal #shoplocal #supportlocal #supportsmallbusiness
Canopy of fall color on School House Lane
#eastfallsphilly #localscenery #throwbackthursday (11/4/20)
📢‼️ Not Going Quietly -- Don't let low poll turnouts get you down! Voting is just one way to exercise voice, which we can do any day of the year. These photos from a recent Reproductive Rights rally in Philly show a city of engaged & motivated citizens.✊✊✊ And some really clever signs, too.... 🤩 More photos & full story here: https://nwlocalpaper.com/defending_roe
#powertothepeople #FightForDemocracy Lawless Media LLC
💰🇺🇸⛓Capitalist Punishment: The US imprisons more citizens by far than any other country in the world – most for nonviolent drug, property and immigration offenses. Whether or not we agree on locking up all these people, surely, they don’t deserve to be abused or denied critical care. However, in Pennsylvania and other states across the nation, countless men and women face cruel and life-threatening medical negligence from their captors with little or no accountability.
Incarceration is not meant to be fun or convenient. It’s a total loss of personal liberty. A prisoner is a ward of the state, completely dependent on the correctional system for food, shelter and health care needed for basic survival. If we as a society support locking up all these people, then we need to take responsibility for them.
According to Police Policy initiative, about 40% of incarcerated men (& 70% of women) have been diagnosed with a mental illness or disability. Yet less than a third of these individuals are receiving adequate treatment. Many are getting none at all – often denied vital medications or given the wrong ones. When inmates fail to control themselves, they are punished and isolated, which only increases their stress. No wonder su***de is a leading cause of death in US jails since 2000.
Cory Clark’s “American Injustice” series provides an unblinking look at our prison system through a distinctly local lens, starting with how we’re failing to medically care for all the citizens we put behind bars:
https://nwlocalpaper.com/behind-bars-and-bottom-lines
Agree? Disagree? Please leave your comments for Cory at the link. 🙏
Lawless Media LLC #massincarceration #inmateslivesmatter
💰🇺🇸⛓Capitalist Punishment: The US imprisons more citizens by far than any other country in the world – most for nonviolent drug, property and immigration offenses. Whether or not we agree on locking up all these people, surely, they don’t deserve to be abused or denied critical care. However, in Pennsylvania and other states across the nation, countless men and women face cruel and life-threatening medical negligence from their captors with little or no accountability.
Incarceration is not meant to be fun or convenient. It’s a total loss of personal liberty. A prisoner is a ward of the state, completely dependent on the correctional system for food, shelter and health care needed for basic survival. If we as a society support locking up all these people, then we need to take responsibility for them.
According to Police Policy initiative, about 40% of incarcerated men (& 70% of women) have been diagnosed with a mental illness or disability. Yet less than a third of these individuals are receiving adequate treatment. Many are getting none at all – often denied vital medications or given the wrong ones. When inmates fail to control themselves, they are punished and isolated, which only increases their stress. No wonder su***de is a leading cause of death in US jails since 2000.
Cory Clark’s “American Injustice” series provides an unblinking look at our prison system through a distinctly local lens, starting with how we’re failing to medically care for all the citizens we put behind bars:
https://nwlocalpaper.com/behind-bars-and-bottom-lines
Agree? Disagree? Please leave your comments for Cory at the link. 🙏
Lawless Media LLC #massincarceration #inmateslivesmatter
BEWARE! The following unexplained incidents have been reported in East Falls, Germantown and environs. 👀👀👀
https://nwlocalpaper.com/paranormal-reports-2021
#paranormal #Halloween #sightings
BEWARE! The following unexplained incidents have been reported in East Falls, Germantown and environs. 👀👀👀
https://nwlocalpaper.com/paranormal-reports-2021
#paranormal #Halloween #sightings
😲👻🎃 Mischief night confessions from the Local archives, along with Halloween pics & stories from the ghosts of East Falls' past. Enjoy.... https://nwlocalpaper.com/halloween-memories-from-the-falls
#Halloween #history #EastFalls
😲👻🎃 Mischief night confessions from the Local archives, along with Halloween pics & stories from the ghosts of East Falls' past. Enjoy.... https://nwlocalpaper.com/halloween-memories-from-the-falls
#Halloween #history #EastFalls
🎃⚡️👈 Friday Flashback! These seniors' stories will make you smile! The women of SOWN share real tales of 👻🤡🦸♂️ trick-or-treating from way back when: https://nwlocalpaper.com/sown-much-fun
(with pics of vintage candy 🍭🍭🍭 to jog your own memories)
#halloween #sowntogether #WHYY/N.I.C.E.
🎃⚡️👈 Friday Flashback! These seniors' stories will make you smile! The women of SOWN share real tales of 👻🤡🦸♂️ trick-or-treating from way back when: https://nwlocalpaper.com/sown-much-fun
(with pics of vintage candy 🍭🍭🍭 to jog your own memories)
#halloween #sowntogether #WHYY/N.I.C.E.
Good Morning, Part Deux
Peeping thru fall foliage at the foggy river down below...
Laurel Hill Cemetery
BUSY SIGNALS: Still plenty of life in this month's Missed Connections, a collection of neighborhood chatter: event listings, classified ads, personals and eyebrow-raising ephemera siphoned from local social media. https://nwlocalpaper.com/missed-connections-october-2021
#missedconnections Dr Karl Von Lichtenhollen
BUSY SIGNALS: Still plenty of life in this month's Missed Connections, a collection of neighborhood chatter: event listings, classified ads, personals and eyebrow-raising ephemera siphoned from local social media. https://nwlocalpaper.com/missed-connections-october-2021
#missedconnections Dr Karl Von Lichtenhollen
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