The Daily Numbers: 100,000 dollars, how much the county will spend on a study of the best possible uses of the Sunoco refinery site in Marcus Hook. I guess with Citizens Bank Park packed most nights that a baseball stadium is out.
781 acres along the Delaware River that is now home to the iconic Sunoco refinery. This study sure doesn’t sound like there’s a future in refining at the site.
0 bids for the site, what Sunoco says it has gotten, despite talking to as many as 150 possible suitors.
5-4 vote by which Chester Upland School board rejected a call for President Wanda Mann to step aside while a probe of a fight between her and a Chester High teacher is concluded. Mann voted with her GOP counterparts against the move.
2 more men nabbed in another child porn sting by county detectives.
250 to 275 new freshmen expected next year at Monsignor Bonner/Archbishop Prendergast High School. They held a tour of the school for incoming students last night. That’s a far cry from the death knell that was sounded for the school back in January.
79 pounds, what an 82-year-old Philadelphia man weighed when he died. His son has been charged with abuse.
4 people charged with beating a woman and then setting her on fire in Philly.
51 million dollar deal for No. 10, with about $19 million guaranteed.
499 dollars, price of one of those new iPads going on sale today.
100 people in line when an Apple store opened this morning in Ardmore.
3.92 percent interest rate on 30-year mortgage.
40 more newsroom jobs being shed by the Inquirer and Daily News. Yep, tough times for this business.
12 pound baby boy delivered to woman at Paoli Hospital yesterday.
46 percent of those responding to a poll who back renaming the football stadium at Penn State for late coach Joe Paterno.
249 minutes and 43 seconds, how long Ilya Bryzgalov went without allowing a goal. He gave up 2 last night, but the Flyers still won.
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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.I’ll believe Chase Utley is just fine when I see him playing in Florida. So far that has not been the case.
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I Don’t Get It: The Chester Upland School Board voted 5-4 not to suspend President Wanda Mann for her role in a brawl in school. Mann voted with her Republican colleagues against the move. Nice.
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Today’s Upper: Chester High certainly needs some good news. Here’s hoping they get it tomorrow when the undefeated play Coatesville in the PIAA Boys Hoops Quarterfinals.
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Quote Box: “Your behavior was inappropriate. It was a bad example … The state is watching us and then we have incidents like this.”
- Chester NAACP President Darrell Jones in asking Chester Upland School Board President Wanda Mann to step down.
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