Ordinary Pennsylvanians who performed extraordinary acts of kindness in 2025
Meet the everyday people making a real difference in Pennsylvania.
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2025
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HARDGATE
Dec
2025
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Meet Bucks County’s king of Christmas cookies. This year he’ll bake over 2,000
As of the first week of December, Bahmueller had baked nearly 2,000 cookies, enough to nearly fill the two regular size freezer compartments and a mini fridge in the basement.
Dec
2025
18
Pittsburgh ministry among small US groups chipping away at historic levels of social isolation
A Pittsburgh ministry pursuing “trauma-informed community development” is one of many small groups across the US working to restore community connections amid an epidemic of loneliness and isolation.
Dec
2025
18
Pennsylvania’s most heartwarming news stories of 2025
The news isn’t always depressing, and these 10 stories prove it.
Dec
2025
17
When the ball just won’t do: The wacky things Pennsylvania drops on New Year’s Eve
The abundance of hometown pride is evident in the different New Year’s Eve celebrations across the state, when weird things start dropping at midnight.
Dec
2025
17
Pennsylvania joins 15 other states suing Trump administration again over billions in withheld electric vehicle charging funds
A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday is the latest legal battle that Democratic-led states are pursuing over funding for EV charging infrastructure that they say was obligated to them by Congress under former President Joe Biden, but that the Department of Transportation and Federal Highway Administration are “impounding.”
Dec
2025
17
In Lehigh Valley visit, Vance tries to ease fears over the economy as jobs report shows losses
The VP touted the administration’s economic policies a week after President Trump traveled to Pa.
Dec
2025
17
As Congress debates ACA subsidies, Pennsylvania extends Pennie enrollment deadline
Pennsylvanians now have until Dec. 31 to enroll in the commonwealth’s health insurance marketplace.
Dec
2025
17
To find living donors for kidney transplants, a Pennsylvania pilot program turns to social networks
A pilot program with 15 patients that began in May at three Pennsylvania hospitals is testing whether motivated, volunteer strangers can help improve the chances of finding a life-saving match for a new kidney—particularly for people with limited social networks.
Dec
2025
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Snow daze: Remembering the 5 biggest blizzards to hit Pennsylvania in recent history
Get out the shovels and ice melt. We're looking back on Pennsylvania’s biggest snowstorms of the past few decades. The last few years have been relatively quiet on the snowstorm front in Pennsylvania. It was back in December of 2020 that we last experienced any...
