Nearly $14 million in federal funds will help build two key Schuylkill River Trail extensions, connecting to Manayunk and ...

Rarely do Panamanians unite on political topics, but threats to the ownership of the canal go to the heart of national ...

It was clear in the early 1800s that Schuylkill County’s coal deposits were going to become big business. Investors like Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia banker and one of the richest men in the world, ...

Canal boat laden with anthracite coal passes through Schuylkill Haven circa 1840. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Mike Szilagyi discussed the evolution of the navigation system recently in a lecture and slide ...

Beginning in 1872, certain sections of the system were abandoned. The last canal boat reached Lock No. 70 in Manayunk in 1932 — 107 years after it opened. The Schuylkill Canal Association ...

Trump Is a Man With a Panama Canal Plan It should come as no surprise that Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s first stop on his first official trip this weekend will be in Panama, a nation that ...

The winter chill is about to get a whole lot cooler because Founders Philly Freeze Out is set to return to Manayunk this Saturday. Prepare to bundle up and enjoy a day full of frosty fun at ...

Rubio added that “if China wanted to obstruct traffic in the Panama Canal, they could” and that would be a violation of the 1977 treaty signed by former President Jimmy Carter under which the ...

That’ll be the case the first weekend in May when Sing Us Home returns for its third year to Manayunk’s Venice Island. Put together by Roxborough-bred singer-songwriter Dave Hause, Sing Us ...

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Plans have already been approved to construct 181 luxury waterfront apartments at the site on “Venice Island” that sits between the Manayunk Canal and the Schuylkill River. In addition, there are also ...