Narberth News

Have you always dreamed of spinning on a stage with your hair in a bun and ballet slippers on your feet? Or maybe you see yourself watching your child onstage, glowing with pride at every move she makes.

On Woodbine Avenue in the down-home borough of Narberth one day last week, Stephane Wojtowicz, the former bread and roll baker for Georges Perrier's restaurants, could be found about his daily craft - the care and rolling of the next flock of flaky, buttery croissants.

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F. Bruce Covington, who's accused of bringing illegal drugs to the home where a young man was killed in 2006, was sentenced this week to three years of probation for drug offenses in a separate incident.

Three home hazardous waste collection dates within Montgomery County remain scheduled for this year, including one next month at Spring-Ford High School.

A federal judge in Philadelphia has refused to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that the Lower Merion School District's redistricting plan discriminates by race against nine pupils from Ardmore.

It's not often that a civic association president serves as the featured guest speaker at a general meeting of another civic association.

A Spanish-style house in Narberth built to resemble the posh Florida villas of the early 1900s might join La Ronda and become the second Main Line mansion facing demolition this year.

Richard and Jerrilyn Marston of Narberth, and Joseph and Sara Finkelstein of Bala Cynwyd announce the engagement of their children, Hilary Marston and Adam Finkelstein.

It's not exactly a conspiracy. Or even a secret. Still, it needs to be exposed, if fans of fabulist Dan Brown are to have any peace.

RAISING is what it is, "it" being Jackie Sabo's musical leap. Sabo and three of her colleagues from the Broesler School of Irish Dance did a bit of Flatley-ing around at yesterday's Narberth Spring Music Festival, held along Haverford Avenue, the borough's main drag.

THE ONLY African-American contractor that bid on erecting steel for the Pennsylvania Convention Center's $800 million expansion was rejected - despite the state-run project's affirmative-action rules, enforcement watchdogs and months of pre-bid minority-inclusion meetings.

Wheeling and dealing from his home in Narberth, Sande Maslow speaks on the phone with the voice of a true, loud salesman.

My girlfriend and I are going to break from the city this weekend and have dinner in the burbs.

In honor of Earth Day on April 22, The Handwork Studio, A Kids' Needle Arts, Textile and Fashion Studio located in Narberth, Penn., celebrates all month long with three in-studio "Trashion" workshops and craft ideas anyone can do at home.

The Ukrainian part-owner of the truck involved in a fatal accident Jan. 23 on I-76 was released from jail today after a friend carrying $65,000 in a black leather handbag appeared in court to post bail.

"When reality stinks," the crusty old novelist quipped, taking a quick drag on his cigarette, "write fiction." No, Raymond Chandler didn't snap out that advice.

William F. Smithson says he's facing a lifetime in prison not because he strangled to death a coworker during a rape attempt - but because he's the victim of circumstantial evidence and a homophobic prosecution.

This is a horribly sad story about a father of three killed in a traffic accident on the Schuylkill Expressway back in January.

A tractor trailer had been cited repeatedly for faulty brakes and was operating with a fraudulent inspection sticker bought at a Philadelphia shop when it plowed into stalled traffic on the Schuylkill ...