The sale of prepaid Regional Rail paper tickets – single & 10 trip – ended October 1, 2020. These tickets are valid for 180 days from the date stamped on the back of the ticket - which means the last date they could be valid is March 31, 2021.

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On Thursday, Pennsylvania’s Public Utility Commission confirmed that its long-standing ban on shutting off utilities for non-paying customers is ending on April 1.

The moratorium, now almost a year old, was seen as a necessary way of keeping people hard-hit by the pandemic from going without basic utilities, like gas, water, and electricity.

A $4.5 million welcome center will become the star of the long-planned renovation of South Philadelphia's crown jewel greenspace, the 348-acre FDR Park, as city officials announced new funding Tuesday.

South Philadelphia’s FDR Park Renovation Gets $4.5 Million to Build Massive Welcome Center – NBC10 Philadelphia (nbcphiladelphia.com)

The landscape near Philadelphia’s famed Jewelers Row could continue to change as the city’s Department of Licenses and Inspections last week gave a green light to demolition for two buildings on the 700 block of Chestnut Street.

L&I OKs demolition of Jewelers Row buildings - Philadelphia Inquirer - Philly Edition, 3/9/2021 (olivesoftware.com)

Allen died in December, three months after the Phillies retired his No. 15. He played nine of his 15 major-league seasons with the Phillies, won the National League’s Rookie of the Year award in 1964, and was the franchise’s first Black star. Monday would have been Allen’s 79th birthday.

Philadelphia Phillies to wear Dick Allen uniform patch; 2021 Hall of Fame vote awaits (inquirer.com)

In an ongoing bid to make Philadelphia’s port more competitive with New York and Baltimore, elected officials and port leadership on Thursday kicked off construction of a $42 million warehouse in South Philly.

PhilaPort breaks ground on new $42 million distribution center (inquirer.com)

The 2021 Penn Relays that were scheduled for April have been canceled for a second year due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and local restrictions on large gatherings.

South 21st & Locust Streets (map)

Barbara Gittings (1932–2007) was a Gay Pioneer and the mother of the LGBT civil rights movement. In the 1960s she resided in Philadelphia with her partner, Kay Lahusen. During that time, Gittings was the editor of the first lesbian publication. With fellow activist Frank Kameny, Gittings helped organize the first public demonstrations for gay and lesbian equality. Known as Annual Reminders, the protests took place in front of Independence Hall each Fourth of July from 1965 to 1969. Kameny and Gittings also waged a multiyear challenge of the American Psychiatric Association, resulting in the removal of homosexuality from the list of mental illnesses. Working with the American Library Association, Gittings successfully crusaded to include gay and lesbian literature in the nation's libraries. In 2012 Philadelphia officially named the intersection of 13th and Locust Streets "Barbara Gittings Way."

Barbara Gittings Residence Historic Marker | Equality Forum