Avi Wolfman-Arent

Avi Wolfman-Arent is a host on 90.9 FM and an education reporter with WHYY News, where he's worked since 2014. Prior to that he covered nonprofits for the Chronicle of Philanthropy and education technology for the Chronicle of Higher Education. Avi first took a shine to radio at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He earned his undergraduate degree at Haverford College and grew up in the D.C. area. Despite the latter he’s a lifelong Philadelphia sports fan, devoting an unhealthy portion of his conscious thought to the Sixers, Phillies, and Eagles. He lives in South Philadelphia.

The large Paulownia in Cloverly Park is renowned throughout Pa.

Headlines of Yore

Stealing Royal Paulownia trees used to be a thing people got arrested for in Fairmount Park

Those thefts don't happen much anymore, officials say, but people do sneak in and take fruit or edible plants.

The house condemned by Rutledge officials after they denied a repair permit to George T. Raymond following a fire

Headlines of Yore

After a 1958 arson, Delco town tried to seize local NAACP leader’s new house

Civil rights leader George T. Raymond tried to move into an all-white suburb.