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December 3, 2025

This episode features stories from our community news reporters about a new women’s basketball league bringing its first travel games to Philly in January, why it’s important to take mental health as seriously as physical health, a long-running poetry series that’s gone through some big changes over the past few years, and an environmental educator […]

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November 19, 2025

This episode features stories from our community news reporters about a network of community fridges and other initiatives offering free groceries and meals to neighbor in need, programs to help lower your utility bills, a local band that mixes traditional Japanese drumming with some modern touches, and a retrospective for AIDS Walk Philly, which came […]

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November 5, 2025

This episode features stories from our community news reporters about about SEPTA’s budget crisis, a recent Youth Mental Health Summit, two new book shops in the area that are dedicated to romance books, a science educator who takes Philadelphians on “moth walks” to get up close and personal with the city’s bugs, and a DJ […]

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October 22, 2025

This episode features stories from our community news reporters about efforts to help the West Philly Tool Library move to a new home, activists fighting proposed construction of AI Data Centers in Lancaster City, how e-Bikes fit into the region’s cycling landscape, an organization that helps seniors stay active… by dancing, and a new website […]

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October 8, 2025

This episode features stories from our community news reporters about a program that helps community members get involved in real estate in their neighborhoods, a long-running poetry reading series featuring queer and trans poets, an artist whose work focuses on the stories of immigrants, and the pressure that urban development puts on local wildlife habitats […]