Starting Feb. 1 in Pennsylvania and Feb. 8 in New Jersey, residents can apply for help to keep them from losing their homes. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
Camille Bell’s search for the perfect shade to “rock a red lip” prompted her to launch her own Philly-based lipstick brand tailored to every lip color. The first batch sold out in just 48 hours. | From: The Citizen (Read more.)
SEPTA is going on a hiring binge unlike any other in the transit agency’s history, seeking people to fill more than 200 vacant positions, doing everything from driving buses to customer service. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
Even as city officials vow to reduce omicron-related interruptions to in-person learning, the Philadelphia School District’s rotating roster of virtual classrooms is causing angst and consternation for many families. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
As a result of this new partnership, a series of vaccination clinics will launch across numerous Philly schools. | From: AL DÍA (Read more.)
About 81% of the municipal workforce is fully vaccinated against COVID. | From: Billy Penn (Read more.)
Last year, the court relied heavily on Zoom meetings and staggering in-person hearings to avoid overcrowding. But it reverted to a pre-pandemic schedule in early January. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
As temperatures stay low, many Philadelphians will urgently need to find warmth over the next several weeks. Here, some simple, impactful ways you can support them. | From: The Citizen (Read more.)
With the winter break fast ending and Hite adamant that in-person learning would continue amid the current surge of Omicron cases, several parents’ groups, ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand, organized petitions and sickouts — plans to hold their children out of school — demanding their voices be heard. | From: Metro Philly (Read more.)
Forty-eight hours after the unspeakable tragedy of the deadly house fire in Fairmount—my neighborhood—it feels pointless to try to find new words about it. Truth is, there were no good words to begin with. What can anyone say about losing 12 lives—including eight children—in a house fire, on a pretty block, on what was supposed to be a normal winter morning? | From: The Citizen (Read more.)
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