The Daily Numbers: 13 stars and a rattlesnake, on the emblem of the logo for the Philadelphia Union, the region’s new pro soccer team that was unveiled yesterday.
6,000 season tickets that have already been sold for the team, most of them to member of the local soccer zealots the Sons of Ben.
275 bucks, what you’ll pay for a season ticket on the cheapest section of the 18,500 seat stadium being constructed on the Chester waterfront.
The top end tickets go for $1,100.
1 probable case of swine flu now reported in Delaware County. There are
17 confirmed cases in Delaware County.
90 more parking spaces at the Elwyn Train Station that won approval from Middletown Council.
72 homes and 10 businesses in Tinicum being eyed by Philadelphia International Airport for an expansion program, according to U.S. Rep.
Joe Sestak, D-7.
3.94 percent tax hike facing a vote in the Penn-Delco School District.
100 bronze vases swiped from graves at Edgewood Memorial Gardens in Concord.
34 million dollars in federal stimulus funds that will be used for renovations to the Media/Sharon Hill trolley line.
2 alarm fire that gutted a home in Yeadon last night, forcing a family to flee and leaving 5 people homeless.
500,000 dollars believed swindled from a business associate by a West Chester man.
6, age of boy who was struck by hit-run driver in the West Oak Lane section of Philadelphia Sunday night.
14, age of student in elementary school in Northeast Philly charged with sexually groping a female eighth-grader in his school.
7 year veteran of the Delaware State Police charged with sexual extortion after engaging in inappropriate sexual relations with a suspect.
2,000 dollar guitar stolen from a performer at the Deer Park Hotel in Newark, Del.
4 billion dollar shortfall in Philly budget. Mayor Michael Nutter and City Council yesterday agreed on a plan that would not raise residents’
property taxes.
32-27 record for the Sixers under Coach Tony DiLeo. He announced yesterday he would not be a candidate for the job.
0 times the Phils will face Dodgers star Manny Ramirez in their three-game set starting tonight. He’s serving a 50-game suspension for testing positive for a banned substance.
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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.Don’t look now but those New York Mets are red-hot, and starting to put some distance between themselves and the second-place Phils.
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I Don’t Get It: We are now above average for rainfall so far in May.
However, we’re still 2 inches short in the water bucket for the year.
Honest.
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Today’s Upper: Let’s hear it for the Sons of Ben and the arrival of major league soccer in the area. Go Union!
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Quote Box: “If there was a public health concern, we would provide the information necessary to the public to alleviate the health risk.”
-- Pa. Department of Health spokesman Stacy Kriedeman, on news of a probable case of swine flu discovered in Delco.
6,000 season tickets that have already been sold for the team, most of them to member of the local soccer zealots the Sons of Ben.
275 bucks, what you’ll pay for a season ticket on the cheapest section of the 18,500 seat stadium being constructed on the Chester waterfront.
The top end tickets go for $1,100.
1 probable case of swine flu now reported in Delaware County. There are
17 confirmed cases in Delaware County.
90 more parking spaces at the Elwyn Train Station that won approval from Middletown Council.
72 homes and 10 businesses in Tinicum being eyed by Philadelphia International Airport for an expansion program, according to U.S. Rep.
Joe Sestak, D-7.
3.94 percent tax hike facing a vote in the Penn-Delco School District.
100 bronze vases swiped from graves at Edgewood Memorial Gardens in Concord.
34 million dollars in federal stimulus funds that will be used for renovations to the Media/Sharon Hill trolley line.
2 alarm fire that gutted a home in Yeadon last night, forcing a family to flee and leaving 5 people homeless.
500,000 dollars believed swindled from a business associate by a West Chester man.
6, age of boy who was struck by hit-run driver in the West Oak Lane section of Philadelphia Sunday night.
14, age of student in elementary school in Northeast Philly charged with sexually groping a female eighth-grader in his school.
7 year veteran of the Delaware State Police charged with sexual extortion after engaging in inappropriate sexual relations with a suspect.
2,000 dollar guitar stolen from a performer at the Deer Park Hotel in Newark, Del.
4 billion dollar shortfall in Philly budget. Mayor Michael Nutter and City Council yesterday agreed on a plan that would not raise residents’
property taxes.
32-27 record for the Sixers under Coach Tony DiLeo. He announced yesterday he would not be a candidate for the job.
0 times the Phils will face Dodgers star Manny Ramirez in their three-game set starting tonight. He’s serving a 50-game suspension for testing positive for a banned substance.
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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.Don’t look now but those New York Mets are red-hot, and starting to put some distance between themselves and the second-place Phils.
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I Don’t Get It: We are now above average for rainfall so far in May.
However, we’re still 2 inches short in the water bucket for the year.
Honest.
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Today’s Upper: Let’s hear it for the Sons of Ben and the arrival of major league soccer in the area. Go Union!
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Quote Box: “If there was a public health concern, we would provide the information necessary to the public to alleviate the health risk.”
-- Pa. Department of Health spokesman Stacy Kriedeman, on news of a probable case of swine flu discovered in Delco.
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