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Thursday, June 5th, 2025
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Good morning, Philadelphia. Here's your local news at a glance for Thursday, the 5th of June.
BUSINESS NEWS
- ➤ Navy Yard-based Rite Aid will close its remaining stores this month after filing for bankruptcy twice, and many employees in Pennsylvania and New Jersey will be laid off—customers will soon lose their neighborhood pharmacy. Sixers executive Daryl Morey is co-producing a basketball musical called Small Ball, which debuts this week at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre. The Philadelphia Inquirer
- ➤ Vivodyne, a Penn spinout based in Center City that makes human tissue for drug testing, raised $40 million from investors led by Khosla Ventures and will build a 23,000-square-foot lab in Brisbane, Calif.—the company said the move will speed up drug development and reduce animal testing. The Philadelphia Inquirer
CULTURE NEWS
- ➤ Odunde Festival has marked 50 years as a family-run cultural event in Philadelphia with CEO Fernandez-West crediting God and her late mother's legacy for its survival and success. Her son, now COO, will lead new plans such as launching ODUNDE Sports — featuring a soccer lounge on 17th and South — and join efforts for America250 celebrations in upcoming months. WHYY
ENVIRONMENT NEWS
- ➤ The Philadelphia School District replaced old water fountains with 2,404 water bottle filling stations—an effort to address lead contamination found in nearly all tested fountains. An EPA grant funded the project, and new stations will also be added to field houses and locker rooms after the district met its legal deadline on June 1. The Philadelphia Inquirer
GOVERNMENT NEWS
- ➤ Gov. Josh Shapiro and House Majority Leader Matt Bradford said they want to boost mass transit funding in the state budget but did not say if they would block the budget without it. Negotiators are meeting behind closed doors with Senate Majority Leader Joe Pittman to work on a plan that could spare SEPTA and other systems from deep service cuts. The Philadelphia Inquirer
HEALTH NEWS
- ➤ At Esperanza Arts Center Tuesday, WHYY hosted an event where Latino community members received free health screenings and connected with local health organizations—Maiken Scott led talks with health experts on diabetes care. WHYY
- ➤ KJ Muldoon left Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia after 307 days Tuesday following an experimental CRISPR gene-editing therapy for severe CPS1 deficiency that eased his symptoms — his family celebrated his discharge with a festive ceremony and police escort. The Philadelphia Inquirer
- ➤ Philadelphia-region small health systems had the biggest operating losses in the nine months that ended March 31 as Grand View Health lost 26% of revenue, Doylestown Health lost 7%, and Redeemer Health continued to struggle after seeking a partner. Larger providers showed improvement as Main Line Health reversed earlier losses and CHOP recorded the highest profit. The Philadelphia Inquirer
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