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Chester Town Hall delivers few answers to residents

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ScoopUSA Media. Volume 65 - Number 33

A town hall held on Wednesday, July 23, 2025, advertised as a forum for citizens to get answers from elected officials, was a complete disappointment to those who attended because the focus was on saving the jobs of federal employees and union workers.

- Lorraine Lavender-Sams

Chester Town Hall delivers few answers to residents

Don't get me wrong, these employees are essential to the functioning, efficiency, and ability of the government to work for and with the country’s citizens. Town Halls are supposed to be open forums for the community to voice their concerns, lodge any complaints or criticisms in an orderly manner, and above all, gain some degree of understanding and resolution to issues facing the community. This is important in underserved communities like Chester. With Crozer and Taylor Hospitals both shuttered, leaving the city and the county without access to reliable medical care and creating an absolute healthcare desert, the town hall meeting should have focused less on supporting federal workers in keepi

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Chester—Chemical Copper Company's Electrolytic Copper Refinery, Diamond Rock Schoolhouse

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Black History Corner

Dancer, choreographer, and artistic director Arthur Mitchell was born on March 27, 1934, in Harlem, New York, to Arthur Mitchell, Sr., and Willie Hearns Mitchell.

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Victory

Rev. Faulkner: The most rewarding aspect is witnessing others grow in their faith and discover their spiritual gifts and callings.

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PHEAA encourages students and families to save for college during National College Savings Month

September is National College Savings Month and the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA) joins the Pennsylvania Treasury Department (Treasury) in encouraging families to take advantage of their upcoming, free webinars to educate themselves on the financial aid process and how to start saving early with the PA 529 College and Career Savings Program and Keystone Scholars.

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Resources to help Save your Property

Losing a property can be devastating - especially if it is the family home. While not every situation is the same, many have similarities, and there are many options available to property owners to try to forestall a property from going to Sheriff Sale.

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Sayers Memorial

Unity Day

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When you labor for the people as an elected official like Marian Tasco has done, you become a Change Maker

Focusing all her attention on Marian Tasco, seated in the front row, Mayor Parker said, “I’m here today, Boss Lady, to say thank you. We love you, and we’re so happy that this is possible while you are still smelling the roses.

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Uhuru Book Fair celebrates 10 years of African self-determination!

It was about ten years ago, on October 17, 2015, that the African People's Education and Defense Fund (APEDF) launched the annual Uhuru Book Fair (UBF) to contend with the educational and economic disparities African people in Philadelphia are subjected to under this social system, the Party has identified as colonialism.

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Gun violence is eroding public safety, spiking our collective anxiety, and threatening democracy

To be Equal

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Is another era of political violence upon us?

In his life's work, Charlie Kirk, the rising star in conservative politics, did not give me, or millions of Americans like me in the political center or left, a great deal of optimism about the direction of our nation's partisan politics.

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