Philly’s only 2025 gift guide with spiritual consults, PPA evasion and a Kensington Jason Kelce tee
This year’s holiday gift guide highlights creative, hyperlocal gifts that support Kensington’s artists, makers, and small businesses.
Latest news (Page 17)
Celebrating the art of podcasting: Kensington Voice hosts inaugural panel discussion and networking mixer
This year, Kensington Voice hosted “Beyond the Mic,” an International Podcast Day panel discussion and mixer.
Kensington news: Community Baby Shower, Latin American Book Fair, and Harrowgate Fall Festival
Hello there, neighbors. We hope you all enjoyed your weekend. Here’s this week’s roundup. News (in case you
Opioid trust ruling favors Kensington schools, parks, and housing relief, not home repairs or small businesses
The trust ruled in favor of funding for Kensington schools, parks, and housing, but against home repairs and small business support.
Kensington leaders argue for neighborhood repair and safe spaces as prevention ahead of opioid settlement appeal
Community leaders and residents believe funding environmental conditions that will improve the lives of families and children is a step toward repairing the harms the open-air drug market has caused the neighborhood.
City Council members push for prison oversight committee, housing-centered solutions to homelessness, addiction
The Office of Prison Oversight would amend Philadelphia’s Home Rule Charter, which is like the city’s constitution.
Special committee on Kensington will hold hearing on “best practices in substance use disorder outreach”
The hearing announcement comes after Lozada introduced a bill earlier this month that would ban mobile service units in most of District 7.
Kensington news: “Sunprints with Plants,” “Rejection” Author Discussion, and Writer’s Circle workshop
Hello there, neighbors. While it may have already started for some, spooky season is officially upon us. We’re looking
Kensington native to open grocery store with shared kitchen, “King Kenzo” olive oil in Harrowgate
Thomas Sheridan is opening a grocery store on Kensington Avenue near Tioga Street with the community and small, local businesses in mind.
State lawmakers tour Kensington ahead of city's opioid settlement appeal: “I just didn’t know”
State Sens. Greg Rothman and Christine Tartaglione, along with most of the 13-member opioid settlement trust, voted “no” to Philadelphia’s spending on Kensington eviction prevention, home repairs, and improvements to schools and parks. The trust will hear the city’s appeal on Oct. 3.
Kensington news: “Earthly Gods” poetry reading, new faith-based addiction resource center, Tusculum Garden photo shoot, and “We Here Walk and Talk” event
Hello there, neighbors. As the trees begin to shed their leaves and the flannels return in fashion for the season,
New faith-based resource center for people who use drugs opens on Allegheny and Frankford avenues
The new Pennsylvania Adult and Teen Challenge (PAATC) center is open Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., with plans to eventually offer nighttime hours.
Protest targets Philly prisons commissioner after Amanda Cahill, Michael McKinnis deaths: “You have blood on your hands”
About 40 people disrupted a criminal legal system panel at the Parkway Central Free Library on Tuesday night to protest the recent deaths of Amanda Cahill and Michael McKinnis.