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

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.

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

Neighborhoods

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

Homeless man arrested for attack on transgender woman in Center City

Amtrak 188

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

Neighborhoods

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

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

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

Amtrak 188

‘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.

Amtrak 188

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

Where in the world is Milton Street?

According to city records, Street is now a Republican and resides in the 1700 block of Anchor St., in the Frankford area of the city.