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This quarter’s Germantown Art and Sound showcase set to be the ‘biggest’ this year

By Pryce Jamison

The Germantown Art & Sound Showcase is back for its biggest event of the year. On June 27, nine local artists will fill Our House Culture Center with painting, poetry, fashion, collage, and more. It’s free to attend and open to all ages, with live music, a food truck, and wine. Artists like Jordan Plain and Tiggy are excited to share bold, personal work—and you’ll get to hear from them directly during the show. Come for the art, stay for the energy and community.

This initiative wants to make a big impact on maternal and infant health outcomes with access to fresh foods

By Maleka Fruean • Germantown Info Hub

“We Can Cook” is a program that brings fresh, healthy food to pregnant people in Philly neighborhoods with high rates of birth complications. Started by the PhillyCAN coalition, it’s not just about food—it’s also about lowering stress, building community, and creating lasting change. Families in Germantown’s 19144 and 19138 zip codes are included.

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Parks on Tap comes to Germantown

By Rasheed Z. Ajamu • Germantown Info Hub

Germantown will welcome Parks on Tap at Fernhill Park and Historic Rittenhouse Town this June. The pop-up beer garden experience invites neighbors to enjoy food, drinks, and family-friendly vibes — all while raising money for the parks themselves. It’s part of a broader initiative by FCM Hospitality and Philadelphia Parks & Rec to create temporary gathering spaces in Philly parks citywide.

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We are hiring: Part-Time On-Call Website Maintenance Specialist

By The Resolve Philly Ops Team • Resolve Philly

The Company Resolve Philly, founded in 2018, is a new kind of local newsroom. It’s a model for the future designed for community impact. We center our editorial work around […]

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‘A People’s Blueprint’ for Arts Programming: Germantowners’ input needed for a new collaborative project

By Danielle Smith • Germantown Info Hub

Mt. Airy and Germantown neighbors are helping shape the future of local arts through Art Forward—a community-led process hosted by Allens Lane Art Center. By sharing their lived experiences in facilitated “Story Circles,” residents offer feedback on current offerings and help create a people-centered blueprint for the arts. The next free sessions are June 17 and 24, with food, childcare, and portraits provided.

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Northwest Philly neighbors shared their experiences around city housing concerns at Sunday’s town hall

By Pryce Jamison • Germantown Info Hub

Over 60 neighbors gathered at POWER Interfaith’s Housing Justice Town Hall in Germantown to share stories of displacement, affordability struggles, and property tax pressures. Though Councilmembers Cindy Bass and Anthony Phillips were invited, neither showed up. Still, neighbors spoke powerfully about their lived realities and asked pressing questions about the city’s housing future.

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Budget season Q&A with Councilperson Cindy Bass

By Rasheed Z. Ajamu • Germantown Info Hub

Since April, the People’s Budget Office (PBO) has reopened its standard yearly operations at its colorful repurposed shipping container in LOVE Park to engage Philly residents in questions and information […]

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Thursday’s Juvenile Expungement Clinic marks a first for the Office of Reentry Partnerships

By Rasheed Z. Ajamu

The Office of Reentry Partnerships is launching its first-ever expungement clinic for young people this Thursday, June 12, in Germantown. Youth 14 and older can meet with attorneys, attend workshops, and even enjoy food and music in a welcoming, police-free space.

Protesters carry a sign at a May 2022 protest at LOVE Park after City Council released a scathing reports on the Department of Human Services’ lapses in caring for children. (Josh Childs)

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Will Philly finally fix its foster care system?

By Steve Volk, Resolve Philly • Billy Penn

For years, people with intimate knowledge of foster care practices at the Department of Human Services cited similar problems: random and subjective decision-making, the confusion of poverty and neglect, an unstable workforce riven by turnover — and more.

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