Upper Darby
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DOE Deputy Secretary ‘Impressed with the Work’ of Upper Darby School District
The Upper Darby School District is making an impression on the Biden administration. And it’s all thanks to the big bucks! The 2022 American Rescue Plan granted billions of federal dollars to schools across the country including Upper Darby. Cindy Marten, Deputy Secretary at the U.S. Department of Education, visited several schools in the…
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Two Upper Darby Police Officers Help Deliver a New Born in a Parked Car on West Chester Pike
Two Upper Darby police officers are now honorary uncles, thanks to some quick thinking last week, writes John Luciew for pennlive.com. The two helped bring Baby William Orlando into the world, handling the delivery from the backseat of a car parked along West Chester Pike. “By the time we got there, the full head was…
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Here’s What’s Coming to the New Upper Darby Community College Campus at Prendie
In September 2019, Delaware County Community College agreed to buy the former Archbishop Prendergast Catholic High School to create a new Upper Darby full-service campus. The Prendergast building at Garrett Road and Lansdowne Avenue will provide 30 classrooms with chemistry and biology labs, according to a release from the college. The Upper Darby campus will…
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Upper Darby Man Charged in Scheme to Defraud a National Airline
An Upper Darby man has been charged in an indictment with seven counts of wire fraud in a flight booking scheme against a national airline, reports the United States Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Theodore Robinson, 29, of Upper Darby, Taylor Thompson, 27; and Tiana Fairfax, 29, of Philadelphia, have been charged. According to…
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Film Comedy Highlights Upper Darby Bars Where Everybody Knows You’re Delco
Two Upper Darby bars will be featured in a new Delco film comedy by Main Line real estate developer Greg Lingo that wraps up filming this week, writes Victor Fiorillo for Philadelphia Magazine. “Crabs in a Bucket” is set in the fictional town of Darby Heights, focusing on Callahan’s Tavern. It is based on Callahn’s…
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This Spider Was Discovered in Delaware County, But Now He Just Wants to be Left Alone
A small team of volunteers is studying a spider unique to Delaware County and parts of nearby Philadelphia –the Pennsylvania purseweb spider, or Atypus snetsingeri, writes Sebastian Echeverri for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The spiders are built like inch-long tarantulas painted in earth tones. “They are very secretive. … They live their entire lives in their…
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Competition Fierce for Teachers as Upper Darby Holds on
Upper Darby School District Superintendent Dan McGarry Is still hiring teachers two weeks after school started, writes Aubri Juhasz for WHYY. The vacancy list numbers at 70, though candidates have been recommended for 40 of those positions. That’s still not a guarantee. “I tell my team, ‘Until they’re actually in the classroom, it’s not filled,’”…
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It’s a Parking Meter Bonanza in Upper Darby
In Upper Darby, drivers stopping at parking meters have a chance to be penny-wise and quarter-foolish. Apparently, sometime in the middle of 2021, people discovered that some Upper Darby parking meters would take pennies instead of quarters, writes Victor Fiorillo for Philadelphia Magazine. The secret was spread informally, told at backyard barbecues and local taverns,…
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First It was Teachers, Now Upper Darby Needs Bus Drivers
Jeannette Tierney is Upper Darby School District’s bus driver recruiter and she’s concerned. The district is short on drivers and needs dozens, writes Corey Davis for 6abc. Tierney recruits and trains the drivers. She’s been at this job she loves for 20 years. Another happy employee? Bus driver Terry Johnson. “This is the most fulfilling…
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‘Frozen’ Broadway Performer Jeremy Morse has Summer Stage Roots
Jeremy Morse is having a good run playing the part of the Duke of Weselton in the hit Broadway musical Frozen currently on stage in Cleveland, writes Ahana O’Malley-Smith for Northeast Ohio Parent. But the actor actually started his career while growing up in Havertown, as part of the Upper Darby Summer Stage program. “I…
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‘The World in One Place’: It’s a Different Upper Darby These Days
Upper Darby, Philadelphia’s largest suburb, is now also the most cosmopolitan, writes Sandy Smith for Philadelphia Magazine. In Upper Darby can be found “The World in One Place,” United Nations, PA, she writes. It’s former reputation as a white bread town is gone. In the past 30 years, immigrants from Asia, Latin America, Africa and…
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Teacher Scarcity Puts Upper Darby High Students into Community College
Upper Darby School District is combating teacher shortages in the new school year by taking the unusual step of paying for some high school students to attend classes at Delaware County Community College, writes Maddie Hanna for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Upper Darby is also capping the number of high school courses students can take from…
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BHCU Surprises Highland Park Teachers With Shopping Donation
Last summer, employee volunteers from the BHCU, now known as Delaware County’s credit union, helped the nonprofit Teachers Teammates get their Folcroft warehouse in order. They built, painted and organized the new space. This year, the BHCU continues its relationship with a $1,855 donation, enough to buy the 53 teachers at Highland Park Elementary School…
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Upper Darby barbershop Is Also a Welcoming Haven for Area Youth
Tyce Combs, owner of Generations Barber School at 6830 Market Street in Upper Darby, is fighting gun violence the best way he can, by being a welcoming presence in the community, especially for the youth, writes Racquel Williams for KYW Newsradio. Open since 2006, his shop is the only barber academy in Delaware County. It…
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UD Native, Former St. Joe’s Coach Phil Martelli Makes Hall of Fame
Phil Martelli, who was head basketball coach at St. Joseph’s University for 24 years before heading over to Michigan, will be inducted into the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame Nov. 3, writes Andrew Kahn for mlive.com. The Upper Darby native has served three seasons as the University of Michigan basketball assistant head coach. He stepped…
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Hundreds Turn Out for Upper Darby’s 2nd Pride Festival
Hundreds gathered Saturday at Upper Darby High School to celebrate the second annual Upper Darby Pride Festival, writes Kathleen E. Carey for the Daily Times. “It’s a big milestone for the LGBTQ community here in Delaware County,” Kyle McIntyre of UDTJ (Understanding, Devotion, Take Action, Justice) said. Next year it will be Delaware County Pride,…
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Healthy NewsWorks, Began in Upper Darby, is About Health, Healing, Journalism
Healthy NewsWorks had its origins at an Upper Darby elementary school in 2003 when Inquirer journalist Marian Uhlman and second grade teacher Susan Spencer got together to create the program for kids, writes Kenny Cooper for WHYY. The purpose of Healthy NewsWorks was to address health issues and childhood reading problems as it turned students…
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Upper Darby’s Pride Festival June 11 is Bigger and Better Than Ever
Upper Darby’s second annual Pride Festival is returning to Upper Darby High School on June 11, writes Kenny Cooper for WHYY. The free event, from 1 to 5 p.m., has 90 vendors participating, three food trucks and 20 performers. There will be singers, poets, rappers, dancers (including a belly dancer), face painting, music, and games…
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