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A partial solar eclipse will be visible in the Philadelphia region on Monday, April 8 from about 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. The eclipse will reach 90% totality in Philly at 3:23 p.m. To safely view it, people need to use special eclipse glasses or make a device that shows its reflection. Eclipse glasses used in 2017 will still work. New pairs can be purchased online or picked up at participating libraries.

Thanksgiving 1973 was a great memory. My 30 teammates and I were extra thankful that day as we had just completed a championship football season – being crowned co-champions in Class D. It was the first Boothbay Region High School football...

Fort Mifflin is regarded among the most haunted places in the United States. Among the ghosts purported to inhabit the military base on the Delaware River, which was built before the American Revolution and active until 1950, is the Faceless Man, a Union soldier named William H. Howe and the only person executed at the fort during the Civil War.

The annual Mummers Parade is usually broadcast on local Philadelphia-area stations, but for a brief run in the '90s, it aired on national TV through the Travel Channel. WGN also ran the New Year's Day event in 2009-2010. This year, it will be broadcast on MeTV, or Channel 2, instead of the usual PHL17.

Now that the days are shorter and the weather is colder, some Philadelphia bars have transformed into holiday-themed winter wonderlands.