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Last Updated: Feb. 20, 2016 · 9:50 p.m.

Meeks Treats in Frankford specializes in banana pudding and free homework help

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Is there only one candidate against safe injection sites in this River Wards race? Nope.

Contrary to a claim on her campaign mailer, Republican Patty-Pat Kozlowski admitted her opponent Joe Hohenstein doesn't support them either.

A 12-year-old boy has died after a SEPTA bus driver ran into him in Frankford

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The Free Library just got a $1 million grant to invest at three branches

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Twelve men incarcerated in Pennsylvania each fronted $28 to donate backpacks, notebooks and crayons to kids in Frankford

The Frankford Boat Launch

Boating on a budget: 9 places you can launch on the water for free in Philly

You don't have to join a yacht club to take advantage of the city's rivers.

Sterling Scott meeting with Zane Johnson of Philadelphia Lawyers for Social Equity at the criminal record expungement and sealing clinic at St. Mark's Church in Frankford. Peak Johnson/Billy Penn

The Reentry Project

Inside a Philly criminal record expungement clinic: ‘Freedom is not just freedom’

Volunteers and lawyers help residents clear their records for a shot at better jobs and housing.

Philly opioid addicts on how they’re being abused by the system that’s supposed to help them

Headstones were tipped over at the Adath Jushurun Jewish cemetery in Frankford

How to keep squatters off a Frankford stoop? Embed studs in the steps

Homeless man arrested for attack on transgender woman in Center City

Proposed Philly Amtrak improvements include straightening Frankford Curve, where 8 people died in last year’s crash

The Thriftway in Frankford has been designated a Historic Place (the architecture is really cool)

Mater Dolorosa in Frankford is one of three churches the archdiocese plans to close next month

Jesus Castro works with kids at the Philadelphia Wooden Boat Factory.

How a Frankford boat-building factory is teaching kids about teamwork

The Philadelphia Wooden Boat Factory is helping kids "find their weirdness."

The view of the tracks in Frankford, just past the curve where Amtrak 188 crashed last year.

‘They’re definitely going slower’: Frankford Junction a year after Amtrak 188

A new fence separates the tracks from the neighborhood, one of Philadelphia's most diverse.

There’s an Amtrak 188 vigil tonight, near the site of the accident in Frankford

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Woman charged in killing of Philly transgender woman Maya Young; more arrests imminent

Friends remember murdered transgender woman Maya Young as being “sweet, like candy”

25-year-old trans woman killed in Frankford; she’s the 3rd trans woman killed in Philly this year