The small grocery store at Frankford Avenue and Unity Street in Frankford has plans to sell beer and incorporate seating. But before the store makes those changes, the owners are getting community reaction.

The Frankford Gazette reports the store owners were at Thursday’s Frankford Civic Association meeting to float the idea of improving the small strip of stores adding seating and selling take-out beer.  No formal steps have been taken with the Zoning Board.

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George “Butch” Ballard accomplished many things in his 92 years, for which he was honored last fall in the Northeast Philadelphia Hall of Fame.

Ballard died Saturday after a life spent in Frankford and devoted to music.

The jazz legend is survived by his wife of 67 years, the sounds of the Butch Ballard Trio and memories in Frankford — grew up in Plum Street, went to Harding and Northeast and was a Democratic ward leader. continue reading »

Food, fun and faux tattoos were part of the Secon Saturday celebration in Frankford.

Frankford celebrated its monthly Second Saturday event over the weekend — the final one of the season.

Click below to see photos of the outdoor arts and community festival. continue reading »

The Philadelphia District Attorney’s office has cleared a police officer involved in an off-duty shooting in Frankford in April.

“Both the District Attorney’s Office and the Philadelphia Police Department interviewed several witnesses who corroborated these events,” D.A. Seth Williams said of the incident. continue reading »

Attendance was high Saturday at the fundraising party to help send a group of Frankford High School students to Paris. Photo by Stephen Schultz.

Twenty-five Frankford High School students will go to Paris in March 2012 with their teacher, Nafisah Curry.

Saturday, Curry led a large block party open to students, neighbors and the public to help raise money for the trip.

“Many of the students have never even traveled outside of Philadelphia and they initially believed that this trip was impossible for them,” Curry told NEast Philly. continue reading »

Police have arrested the Frankford man shot by an off-duty officer in April, and charged the man with attempted murder and assault.

Joshua Taylor, 23, was shot on the 4600-block of Worth Street by an off-duty officer from the 18th District. continue reading »

There’s some argument over Frankford’s northern border. Some say it’s Cheltenham Avenue; others say Bridge Street. Regardless, the shootings that played out this past spring on the 2000-block of Bridge Street were in Frankford.

Yet, Wissinoming residents got a scare April 5 when Action News ran this headline: “Man and woman found shot in Wissinoming.” continue reading »

Summer brought strawberries to the Oxford Circle Farmers Market. It and the Frankford Farmers Market opened this year with help from the Food Trust. Photo by Ben Bergman.

Frankford Farmers Market has been open for quite some time, but Mayor Michael Nutter will help mark the official grand opening tomorrow.

The Department of Public Health, the Mayor’s Office of Transportation and Utilities,  SEPTA and The Food Trust will be at the Frankford Transportation Center at 9:30 a.m. to celebrate the market’s offerings of fresh, local food. continue reading »

A 24-year-old man was critically injured early Saturday morning in Frankford after being shot multiple times.

Details are below, including a look back at similar incidents nearby. continue reading »

If you had a bad experience in the past with the city’s once notorious Licenses and Inspections department, it’s time to give it another shot.

So went the address Thursday night from a representative of the city agency charged with enforcing its zoning code and related statutes.

“Let’s be real: things were bad,” said Maura Kennedy, the L&I director of strategic initiatives, of the agency before current Commissioner Fran Burns came on. “But we’ve worked very hard to get things in order in the past three years, and we want you to give us another try.”

Kennedy, who was speaking at the Frankford Civic Association meeting, outlined how her agency has changed and, along the way, took questions on a longstanding neighborhood beef with L&I over recovery homes.

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