“Lives on the Line,” a series of photographs illustrating the human and environmental costs of the Mariner East pipeline construction through Pennsylvania and Delaware County, will be on display at Swarthmore Friends Meeting, 12 Whittier Place on the Swarthmore College campus, from Sunday, April 7 through Sunday, May 12.
The Swarthmore Borough Human Relations Commission stands to grow by two to four members, and to gain additional functions, if Borough Council votes next Monday to approve changes proposed in a new ordinance. At the April 1 work session, council’s General Government Committee chair Sarah Graden described the proposed changes to borough statutes which would be effected by ordinance #1086, and set the context for action.
Beginning this week, 16 Swarthmore College senior art majors who work in media including ceramic sculptures, paintings, photographs, architectural studies, and installation design will exhibit their work in seven small group shows at the college’s List Gallery.
For 43 years, savvy shoppers have been coming to Trinity Thrift Shop to buy housewares, clothing (men’s, women’s and children’s), linens, toys, sporting goods, books, artwork, jewelry, furniture and vintage items. While our sales are on the first and third Fridays of each month, from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., we will be open for a special Saturday sale on April 13, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. All our regular bargain-priced items will be available for purchase then, and we will also feature gorgeous, only-worn-once gowns and accessories for proms, balls and fancy events.
Wallingford Elementary School teacher Susan Knight and her 4th grade class are on a mission to save endangered marine animals.
Got a new neighbor who needs to get the lay of the land? A friend who stared blankly when everyone else was discussing that story in last week’s Swarthmorean? Here’s your chance to help these people open the door to what’s going on in Swarthmore, Wallingford, Rose Valley, and Rutledge.
Last week’s 2nd annual Wellness Fair, sponsored by the Swarthmore Senior Citizens and the Borough, explored the benefits and pleasures of volunteerism as one path to wellness.
We are concerned that our readers have become complacent due to our insistence on reporting actual news and previewing events that will actually occur. Maybe it’s time to include alternative facts as well as truth in our pages. With this edition, The Swarthmorean ventures into the murky world of fake news, presenting a couple of stories that aren’t true, but maybe could be.
We are writing a community-generated story and we are looking for your help. If your family has ever received a free Arbor Day sapling from the Scott Arboretum, whether through Swarthmore-Rutledge School or by attending Scott Arboretum’s Arbor Day festivities, we would like to hear your stories and see some photos. Think back through the years!
The Swarthmorean, which at 126 years old is among the longest publishing Pennsylvania newspapers, has been sold again, following a change of ownership at the beginning of this year. This time the buyer is Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and reputedly the richest man in the world. The Swarthmorean joins the Washington Post among Bezos’s newspaper holdings.
With apologies to the New York Times column, “Sunday Routine”…which is a version of a London Times Magazine feature called “A Life in the Day”… which was no doubt a nod to the Beatles song “A Day in the Life.” Other than that, the idea is completely original.
Could Swarthmore, the site of historic early shows by such rock greats as Bruce Springsteen, the Allman Brothers, and Nirvana, add another page to its musical history?
On Sunday, April 7, New Yorker David Ostwald sweeps into his old hometown with the six-piece band that he fronts in a steady Wednesday night gig at the legendary jazz club Birdland in Midtown Manhattan. Beginning at 2 p.m., David Ostwald’s Louis Armstrong Eternity Band will celebrate and expatiate on traditional jazz at its Tri-State Jazz Society appearance at Community Arts Center in Wallingford.
An unnamed researcher recently turned up a hitherto unknown document pertaining to the so-called Biddle Tract in Swarthmore. The document may sow further confusion regarding the restrictions on development of commercial new cell properties in the heart of Swarthmore‘s commercial district.
Business Administrator Martha Kew struck two positive notes for the Wallingford-Swarthmore School Board at its meeting on Monday, March 25. She first noted that student participation in breakfasts and lunches was up 3% across the district this school year — an average increase of nine breakfasts and 104 lunches per day — coinciding with the beginning of WSSD’s contract with Nutrition Group, the district’s food service provider, whose contract is due for renewal. She takes this to signify student approval of the new food, and has additionally heard positive feedback from both students and staff. In particular, she has received “Numerous compliments regarding the [new] pizza.”
New Phillies superstar Bryce Harper reportedly was seen browsing a Swarthmore College course catalog on his phone in the Phillies clubhouse this spring. Could he be planning a return to academia after just one year at a Nevada junior college at age 17?
The 2019 Media Film Festival will once again take the stage at the historic Media Theatre on April 4-6 for a three day showcase of short films. The Aruffo-Rim jury awards will be presented on Saturday night, along with over $1,000 in cash prizes. The ceremony culminates in the presentation of the grand prize, the coveted Golden Trolley.
At its annual membership meeting in February, the Swarthmore Swim Club announced the pending conversion of its lap pool to a saltwater chlorination system. The change will affect the six-lane lap pool, where swim team competitions are held and lap swimmers paddle for their 1000 lap shirts.
Wow! More than 140 friends, family, and supporters of the Rutledge Girls Club attended the Second Annual Beef and Beer Event on Friday, March 15. It was a fun, filling, and very successful fundraising event for the non-profit Girls Club, which supports five age-based softball teams for area girls from five though 15 years old.
Is it possible to time travel back to the Swarthmore of yesteryear, when British children were shipped here to attend school, when a dog named after Wendell Wilkie acknowledged every passerby at Shirer’s pharmacy, when you paid a nickel to have your shoes shined at a Park Avenue shop?
