Mayor Nutter is scheduled to tour the recently restored baseball field at Hancock Playground in Kensington today, where he'll announce initiatives for recreation-center safety, summer jobs for youth, and new rules for the city's summer camp programs. The Inquirer has some more details on how the FBI got involved in the case of Larry Mendte allegedly reading Alycia Lane's email. This week the the Sheriff's Office Bench Warrant Unit in Delaware County is holding......

Thomas FitzSimmons High School in North Philadelphia will graduate their first class of all boys this Thursday. The school went all-boys two years ago, and is the only all-boys public school in the state. Meanwhile, the Ada H. Lewis Middle School in East Germantown might be voted closed on June 20th by the School Reform Commission, due to declining enrollment and a $38 million repair estimate. But parents and teachers are fighting to keep the......

It's hot outside, and it's only going to get hotter. As such, we thought we'd bring you this friendly vintage reminder from the Philadelphia Water Department about what NOT to do to cool down. Sometimes, we kinda miss the 80s.......

It's probably usually a relatively good idea to avoid the Schuylkill River and the Wissahickon Creek, but it's currently even more important, due to the fact that there was a "toxic discharge" of some kind - or at least, that's the graphic way they put it on XPN this morning - which killed a bunch of fish in Montgomery County, and might poison you or your pets as well. To be safe, the city has......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: FRIDAY Fish Census: Free annual demonstration of fish census taking techniques by the Philadelphia Water Department's Office of Watersheds. You know, if you're into that sort of thing (which you might want to consider being, as it's related to determining the cleanliness of our drinking water). 10AM at the Fairmount Water Works (640 Waterworks Drive). From Philadelphia With Love 3: "Still More Industrial, Educational, and other Lost Local......