DEAR ABBY: I have been in a relationship for seven years. My significant other, “Gabe,” and I bought a home together. We are also raising three of his grandsons. I pay half of the mortgage, utilities, food, maintenance and personal necessities. We both pay for our own insurance, car loans and gas.
Abby, there are four of them and one of me. This means utilities and food are used more by them than by me. I’m always after the boys to turn off the lights when not in use and to shut the doors after entering and leaving the house. We live in Arizona, so you can imagine electric bills during the summer, especially in a very large home.
Because Gabe earns more money than I do, I have tried talking to him about the cost. I feel he should pay a higher percentage. Each time, I give him the monthly amount that I spent. He then goes through it with a fine-tooth comb and pays only what he thinks he should pay for. We argue about it every single month. It’s driving me nuts, and the upfront costs are breaking me. Please advise.
— PAYING MORE THAN ENOUGH
DEAR PAYING: That Gabe earns more than you do should have been taken into consideration at the time you began living with him and his grandsons. Financial counseling might help you to determine what such an adjustment would mean in terms of dollars. The National Foundation for Credit Counseling is a reliable resource. Because these monthly financial disagreements could erode your relationship, please consider couples counseling in order to work out a plan that is fair for all parties concerned.
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DEAR ABBY: I’m having problems dealing with the death of my fiancé, who died by suicide 10 months ago. I blame myself partly for his death. While I realize I didn’t buy the medicine that killed him, I did move out of the house we shared because of his attitude toward me.
I can’t seem to come to terms with his death. I feel responsible because I left the home we shared. I am seeing a counselor, but I’m not making the progress I was wishing I could. Do you have any advice for me and others who’ve gone or are going through this?
— SPIRALING IN FLORIDA
DEAR SPIRALING: Please accept my sympathy for the loss of your fiancé. When someone dies by suicide, survivors are often shocked and traumatized. You didn’t mention if your fiancé suffered from depression, job loss, a physical ailment or some other condition that may have caused him to act out. If he was abusive to you, you did the RIGHT thing by moving out. This is nothing to feel guilty for.
I’m glad you are receiving counseling. Many survivors have been helped by talking things through with a licensed psychotherapist. The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, established in 1987, lists worldwide suicide bereavement support groups as a public service to loss survivors. It can be accessed at afsp.org. Please don’t wait to reach out.
Three people were found dead Monday at a Bucks County home where a man barricaded himself for hours before being taken into custody, police said.
Police in Northampton Township said they responded around 2:15 p.m. to a home on the unit block of Heather Road for a well-being check and were confronted by a man armed with a knife.
The South Central Emergency Response Team responded to the scene and later took the suspect into custody, police said, adding that there was no danger to the community.
Police released no other details about the victims or the man who was in custody.
A neighbor who asked not to be named said that earlier in the day, police several times tried to communicate over a loud speaker or megaphone with a man inside the house.
“We just want to talk to you. Come out. We just want to talk,” the neighbor recalled the police saying to the man. “But nobody came out.”
The neighbor said a couple possibly in their 80s have lived in the home for decades and had a son and a daughter. The son, possibly in his 50s, has moved in and out of the home several times over the years, the neighbor said.
At 3:17 p.m., the Northampton Township Police Department posted an alert on Facebook asking the public to avoid the area of Heather Road and Second Street Pike because of police activity.
The neighbor said officers from several other police agencies responded to the scene. There were two armored vehicles and several ambulances included as part of the response.
“It seems like they kept coming and coming and coming,” the neighbor said.
Around 7:35 p.m., the neighbor said some police officers had left, but many were still at the scene.
Pleas to consider boycotting the World Cup in the United States this summer are rising amid President Donald Trump’s fraying relationship with Europe.
Sepp Blatter, the controversial former president of FIFA, advised football fans in a social media post on Monday to “stay away” from America and the World Cup.
Elsewhere, Oke Göttlich, president of the Bundesliga club St. Pauli and a vice president of the German Football Association, said that the time had come to “seriously consider and discuss” a boycott, according to an interview in the Hamburger Morgen Post.
A spokesperson for FIFA declined to comment.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino (right) gave U.S. president Donald Trump the inaugural “FIFA Peace Prize” at last month’s World Cup draw.
The U.S. is co-hosting the World Cup with Canada and Mexico for about five weeks starting in June. The tournament has already been criticized for exorbitant ticket prices. Now Trump’s policies, including a desire to take control of Greenland from fellow NATO member Denmark, are increasing debate about boycotting the event in response.
“What were the justifications for the boycotts of the Olympic Games in the 1980s?” Göttlich told the German newspaper, referring to several countries skipping the Olympics in Moscow after the former USSR invaded Afghanistan.
“By my reckoning, the potential threat is greater now than it was then,” Göttlich said. “We need to have this discussion.”
Opposition has also come from British politicians and Mark Pieth, who led a committee to oversee reforms at FIFA last decade. He’s said that fans should boycott the World Cup because of America’s increasing authoritarianism.
Major League Soccer announced Monday that it has started a partnership deal with Polymarket, a prediction market platform that’s similar to sports betting but not quite the same.
Prediction markets work by having users choose from two possible outcomes for an event, and they are given a percentage likelihood of each. That plus how much money people put down translates into how much money they make if their pick is correct.
Polymarket is one of a few such platforms, with Kalshi the other big one. The concept has been controversial for many reasons, the biggest being that although prediction markets resemble sports betting, they’re regulated separately from traditional sports betting firms.
The reason behind that is the platforms’ claim that they offer “financial contracts” instead of bets. Those contracts are overseen by the federal government’s Commodity Futures Trading Commission, while sports betting is regulated by each state.
As a result, prediction markets are legal nationwide, although a judge in Massachusetts this month issued an injunction stopping Kalshi from taking sports bets in the state.
Sports betting as some fans might be more used to seeing, at a casino in Las Vegas last fall.
In the announcement, which also covers the Leagues Cup that MLS runs with Mexico’s Liga MX, MLS deputy commissioner Gary Stevenson said: “Partnering with Polymarket allows us to integrate prediction markets as a new fan engagement format and position MLS as an early leader among global soccer properties.”
The announcement’s text also said the deal “includes safeguards designed to protect the integrity of MLS and Leagues Cup matches, including independent monitoring of trading activities and collaboration on MLS and Leagues Cup markets offered.”
Another MLS executive, senior vice president of emerging ventures Chris Schlosser, told The Inquirer that the deal is just as much about preserving the integrity of games.
“All of the major prediction markets have markets on MLS — they all offer trading on the league,” he said. “And so we felt like we really needed to lean in on the integrity side and create a framework for protection.”
A big billboard in New York that Kalshi bought to show off its prediction for last year’s mayoral race in the city.
The ‘best shot’ at ‘ensuring integrity’
Schlosser said MLS and Polymarket will create an “authorized prediction market” status similar to the “authorized gaming operator” status that various sports betting firms have from MLS and other sports leagues.
“The goal,” he added, “is to get those with any any prediction market that has a CFTC license.”
Doing so will “codify a whole number of integrity principles for us,” he said. “Things like approval over markets, things like working with a league on restricted individuals, league staff, club staff, players, referees, owners to make sure that they’re not trading on the sport of soccer.”
“Markets” in this case refers to the offers that prediction markets give the public.
Schlosser notably did not mention players at first. Asked if players have been banned from using prediction markets until now, he said: “Until we updated the guidelines and rules, no, and we needed to make sure that the prediction markets would actually work with us to prohibit that trading.”
FIFA, world soccer’s governing body, has a code of ethics that bans players, officials, and agents from “either directly or indirectly, betting, gambling, lotteries or similar events or transactions related to football matches or competitions.”
Today Soccer United Marketing and @Polymarket announced multi-year partnerships with @MLS and @LeaguesCup that will offer new ways for fans to engage with matches and follow season-long storylines by integrating prediction markets into the fan experience. https://t.co/EYzJx98hcxpic.twitter.com/kMBU9rup1w
Schlosser said that a third-party entity will be employed to “monitor all trading volume on league markets and report any strange occurrences,” and that entity will be involved in any needed investigations.
“It’s a multipronged approach, and we think it gives us the best shot at ensuring the integrity of the competition,” he said.
There is particular concern among outsiders about the proliferation of prop bets, just as there is in sports around the world. American sports fans need only look at the recent federal charges against college athletes accused of betting on basketball games here and in China, with some players from Philadelphia schools allegedly involved.
Prop bets in soccer could come on whether a player will draw a yellow or red card, or miss a penalty kick, or take a certain number of shots — or something as small as committing a foul in a certain minute. A recent report by sports investigation website PlayTheGame.org cataloged how unlicensed companies around the world are using FIFA’s in-house streaming platform, FIFA+, to offer in-play bets on games shown there from lower-level leagues worldwide.
FIFA’s headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland.
FIFA also recently struck a deal with global sports data provider Stats Perform “to distribute official betting data and livestreams” to gamblers worldwide.
MLS has had some small scandals over the years with players breaking the league’s rules on traditional sports betting. Prediction markets open up another area of risk, especially since they’re legal nationwide. (Polymarket is not legal in Canada, which has three MLS teams.)
“The prop bets that really can concern us are the bets that are easily single-player controlled,” Schlosser said, listing the ones mentioned above and a few more. “Those are the kinds of things that concern us, and actually that concerns us in all gaming.”
Traditional sports betting is currently legal in some form in 40 states and the District of Columbia. In 2023, MLS started writing to 41 states and territories asking for a ban on prop bets for players getting yellow or red cards. Thirty-three states agreed and banned the bets, and eight states did not.
A list of the states in each column was not available when this article was published.
A referee gives a yellow card to a player in an MLS game last year.
“Even in sports betting, we’re not always successful in getting the framework that we want,” Schlosser said. “At least in these prediction market agreements, we have, I’d say, a broader right of consultation and approval over the markets that are going to be listed on MLS. And we feel that’s a strong protection to eliminate the markets that may be problematic.”
Becoming more popular, and controversial
The popularity of prediction markets has skyrocketed in recent times. The Financial Times reported last month that from early 2024 through November 2025, the total value of wagers on the platform rose from $100 million per month to over $13 billion.
But that rise has come with many controversies. The first is claims that there aren’t enough regulations to stop insider trading, a matter that has arisen in the platforms offering bets on political events — which is controversial enough on its own.
The industry has deep ties to cryptocurrencies. Polymarket accepts deposits through the Polygon blockchain along with traditional U.S. dollars and credit cards.
Polymarket and other prediction markets take bets on a wide range of subjects, including politics.
During Joe Biden’s administration, the CFTC accused Polymarket of running an illegal exchange, leading to a settlement in which the company agreed to wind down its U.S. operations. But after Donald Trump returned to the White House, the CFTC backed off a probe into the company and it returned to operation.
Polymarket also now has one of President Trump’s sons, Donald Trump Jr., on its advisory board.
Is there a risk of reputational damage to MLS, whether over the expansion of direct ties to betting or Polymarket’s ties to the Trumps? Monday’s announcement did not seem popular with fans on social media, many of whom sent their reactions to this reporter’s post of the news.
“I can’t speak to any of that, but what I can say is we felt like we had a duty to act in the space to protect the integrity of our competitions,” Schlosser said. “These guys have markets on MLS, they have active trading, and it’s growing quickly. In that world, we can’t just stick our head in the sand.”
With that in mind, he continued, the league decided that “this is the best way we saw to ensure that we could actively protect the integrity of the league. That really is the foundation of everything we’ve done in this space.”
It was no surprise that VJ Edgecombe was chosen Monday to play in the Rising Stars Challenge as part of NBA All-Star Weekend.
The event will showcase some of the league’s top first- and second-year players along with premier NBA G-League talent in a mini-tournament, with four teams playing three games on Feb. 13 at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, Calif.
The 76ers’ rookie shooting guard has been expected to take part in the event since the beginning of his breakout season. His selection was made official Monday on Peacock before the tipoff of the nationally televised game between the Orlando Magic and Cleveland Cavaliers.
The selected NBA players will be drafted onto three teams at 7 p.m. Tuesday on Peacock, while the fourth team will be composed of G League players.
The other rookie selections are Dylan Harper (San Antonio Spurs), Cedric Coward (Memphis Grizzlies), Tre Johnson (Washington Wizards), Egor Dёmin (Brooklyn Nets), Kon Knueppel (Charlotte Hornets), Jeremiah Fears (New Orleans Pelicans), Collin Murray-Boyles (Toronto Raptors), Cooper Flagg (Dallas Mavericks), and Derik Queen (Pelicans).
Matas Buzelis (Chicago Bulls), Alex Sarr (Wizards), Stephon Castle (Spurs), Reed Sheppard (Houston Rockets), Donovan Clingan (Portland Trail Blazers), Cam Spencer (Grizzlies), Kyshawn George (Wizards), Jaylon Tyson (Cleveland Cavaliers), Ajay Mitchell (Oklahoma City Thunder), Kel’el Ware (Miami Heat), and Jaylen Wells (Grizzlies) are the second-year players selected.
Sixers rookie VJ Edgecombe rising for a dunk over the Wizards’ Marvin Bagley earlier this month.
Meanwhile, the G-League selections are Ron Harper Jr. (Maine Celtics), Sean East II (Salt Lake City Stars), Alijah Martin (Raptors 905), Tristen Newton (Rio Grande Valley Vipers), David Jones Garcia (Austin Spurs), Yang Hansen (Rip City Remix), and Yanic Konan Niederhauser (San Diego Clippers).
Edgecombe, who was selected third in June’s NBA draft, has been one of the league’s top rookies.
On opening night, the 20-year-old produced 34 points on 13-for-26 shooting to go with seven rebounds in the Sixers’ 117-116 victory over the Boston Celtics at TD Garden. It was the third-highest scoring debut in NBA history behind Wilt Chamberlain’s 43 points on Oct. 24, 1959, and Frank Selvy’s 35 on Nov. 30, 1954. He also has had two game-winning baskets. The first one came Dec. 4 against the Golden State Warriors at Xfinity Mobile Arena. He scored a putback with 0.9 seconds left after Golden State’s De’Anthony Melton blocked Tyrese Maxey’s shot.
After that play, Maxey blocked Melton’s layup attempt at the buzzer, enabling the Sixers to escape with a 99-98 victory. But Edgecombe set the play in motion because he was in the right place at the right time.
No surprise here. Sixers shooting guard VJ Edgecombe is one of the rookies selected for the Rising Star Challenge. pic.twitter.com/N6RnLIj57n
The second winning basket came when Edgecombe buried a 25-foot three-pointer with 1.7 seconds left in overtime to give the Sixers a 139-136 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies on Dec. 30 at FedExForum.
The Bahamian was averaging 15.6 points, 5.3 rebounds, 4.2 assists, and 1.5 steals heading into Monday’s game against the Charlotte Hornets at the Spectrum Center.
The 76ers find themselves in dire predicaments when Joel Embiid and Paul George are both sidelined. On Monday, the squad’s performance was downright embarrassing without the two maximum-salary players.
Tyrese Maxey and VJ Edgecombe must play much better than they showed against the Charlotte Hornets.
And the Sixers must improve their three-point shooting.
Those things stood out in a 130-93 loss to the Hornets on Monday at the Spectrum Center.
Struggling without Embiid and George
Embiid and George missed this matchup because they are not yet cleared to play on back-to-back days as both deal with left knee injury management.
They are expected to return for Tuesday’s game against the Milwaukee Bucks at Xfinity Mobile Arena. But the Sixers (24-21) looked lost on both ends of the floor against Charlotte (19-28) without the standouts.
The Hornets did a great job of attacking the rim. On defense, Charlotte challenged everything the Sixers attempted. For their part, the Sixers appeared flat and in need of better communication on both ends of the floor without their stars.
The Sixers struggled through 33.3% shooting — missing 11 of 14 three-pointers — in the first half. During that time, the Hornets scored 38 points in the paint, a fact that was likely impacted by Embiid’s absence. As a result, the Hornets took a 69-44 advantage into intermission. The 25-point margin was the Sixers’ second-biggest halftime deficit of the season.
Nick Nurse’s team also struggled at the start when Embiid and George both missed the game against the Toronto Raptors on Jan. 11. The Sixers shot 37.8% while making just 2 of 14 three-pointers and trailing by double digits in the first half of that game. They mounted a second-half comeback before losing in overtime against Toronto.
But on Monday, the Hornets opened the third quarter with a 9-0 run and led by as many as 50 points late in the period.
The Sixers made just 38.9% of their shots in the game while surrendering 56.6% to Charlotte. Hornets wing Brandon Miller led all scorers with 30 points. Meanwhile, Moussa Diabaté put together a personal slam-dunk contest and finished with 12 points on 6-for-7 shooting.
Hornets forward Miles Bridges reacts during the first half. His team rode a 41-22 second-quarter performance to a big win over the Sixers.
The Sixers must find a way to play when undermanned. They can’t use the absences of Embiid and George as an excuse for losing to one of the league’s worst teams in epic fashion.
A couple of weeks ago, the Sixers lost to a Denver Nuggets squad playing without its entire starting lineup. Denver found a way to win, and the Sixers must do the same.
But against Charlotte, they lacked energy and cohesion.
More needed from guard tandem
Maxey and Edgecombe had one of their worst games of the season as a pairing.
Maxey, who was named an All-Star starter last week, finished with a season-low six points on 3-for-12 shooting, along with seven assists and three turnovers in 25 minutes, 18 seconds. Edgecombe, a standout rookie, had nine points while making 2 of 11 shots to go with six rebounds, one assist, and two turnovers in 25:44. They were tied at minus-36. With the game out of hand, Maxey and Edgecombe sat out the fourth quarter.
This was a shockingly bad performance by Maxey, who entered Monday as the NBA’s third-leading scorer at 29.9 points. Meanwhile, Edgecombe is a rookie of the year candidate. They must play better for the Sixers to be victorious, especially in games when Embiid and George are sidelined.
Three-point shooting blues
The Sixers struggled, once again, from three-point distance.
For the game, they made just 9 of 30 shots for 30% from deep.
This comes after the Sixers shot a combined 32.0% in their previous 10 games. They were ranked 16th for the season at 35.4% heading into the game. But they’ve been in a funk in most of their recent games from behind the arc.
“Given the conditions of the roads and the issues that the mayor and others have talked about, and out of an abundance of caution,” district offices will remain closed Tuesday, and after-school programs and athletics are also closed, Watlington said.
The superintendent prioritizes in-person learning, he said, but Tuesday “and any subsequent inclement weather days will be remote learning days.”
Virtual instruction, closures and delays beyond Philly
Districts around the region were starting to make similar calls.
Haddon Heights, in South Jersey, had already called a two-hour delay.
The Cheltenham School District is also going virtual.
“After consulting with my team, many roads remain unpassable and are likely to refreeze after dusk, making bussing on Tuesday too risky,” Superintendent Brian Scriven told families in a message Monday afternoon.
Schools have increasingly been turning to online instruction during winter storms, though some districts use a different calculus on when to go virtual. New Jersey schools do not allow for virtual instruction.
Scriven said Cheltenham administrators were “hopeful schools will return to normal operations as soon as possible,” and would communicate any additional schedule changes before Wednesday.
Upper Darby schools also announced virtual instruction.
“Unfortunately, we are going to need another day to continue to remove snow and ice,” Superintendent Dan McGarry told families Monday afternoon.
Officials with the Centennial School District in Bucks County also said they would have virtual instruction, telling community members in a message that “conditions remain challenging, and our facilities personnel are hard at work clearing lots and entryways.” Central Bucks also called a remote learning day.
The Colonial School District, meanwhile, announced a second traditional snow day Tuesday.
“More work needs to be completed on our secondary roads to make it safe for our students to travel on Wednesday,” Superintendent Michael Christian said in a message to families. In the event of more inclement weather, Christian said, the district would have virtual instruction.
Camden schools will also be closed on Tuesday. So will Cherry Hill, Winslow, Woodbury, and Washington Township, among others.
After the Flyers’ successful road trip out west, the team returned to Philly, only to be kept off the ice for the next two days, thanks in part to the weekend’s snowstorm.
The team didn’t practice Saturday and canceled practice Sunday, so Monday’s morning skate marked the first time the team had been on the ice since Friday’s 7-3 win over Colorado.
The Flyers this season are 9-10-4 following a win, which coach Rick Tocchet described as “not that great.” The challenge of coming back after a win is mental, not physical, he said, and doubly so with the time off.
“If you’re off for two days, first of all, what are you doing on the days off?” Tocchet said. “First of all, you’re resting your legs, which is great. Are you doing something? I’m sure some guys did something to move around, not lay on a couch, but there’s a mental game. You should use these two days as actually a rest. You should have a lot of legs instead of the opposite, rusty.”
Although some of the guys may have spent their Sundays shoveling snow in their driveways, which Tocchet approved.
“You get the squats in there, I mean, why not?” Tocchet joked. “I don’t want them doing it for four hours or something, but yeah, why not? I think a lot of people were out there shoveling yesterday.”
Tocchet said Monday’s divisional matchup with the New York Islanders (7 p.m., NBCSP), who are currently third in the Metro, is a “maturity game” for the group.
After earning five of a possible six points on the road trip, the Flyers hope they can maintain that level of play during the upcoming stretch, when they play three teams in the Islanders, Columbus Blue Jackets, and Boston Bruins that they could be competing with for a playoff spot come April.
“I think we just needed a reset,” Travis Konecny said. He pointed to Colorado, the league’s top team, losing six of its last nine before Sunday’s win over Toronto. “Every team goes through a little streak, and we just had a little reset and got back to it.”
Flyers goaltender Dan Vladar is getting close to returning from his lower-body injury. He has not played since Jan. 14.
The schedule has not been friendly to the Flyers so far this year in terms of getting in more practice time, Tocchet said, and there won’t be many opportunities before the Olympic break (Feb. 6-24) to get back on the ice for practice, with the upcoming back-to-back on Wednesday and Thursday, and the Flyers’ charity carnival on Sunday.
The young Flyers roster is improving in the mental aspect of the game, but the weeks to come will be a test of how much progress the group has made.
“Every team’s got to go through it, and you’ve got to be ready for it, and that’s mental reps, when you don’t go on the ice, being ready,” Tocchet said.
Dan Vladař was on the ice for morning skate. The goalie hasn’t played since Jan. 14 against Buffalo, and is on injured reserve with a lower-body injury. Tocchet said he is likely to make a start this week. … Rasmus Ristolainen was also on the ice for skate and is expected to return to the lineup against the Islanders after missing six games with an upper-body injury.
For the Philly region Monday it wasn’t so much a matter of digging out from the heftiest snowfall in a decade, it was more like a chipping, shaving, scraping, expletive-inducing, and ice-chunk hurling operation.
Public transportation appeared to be getting back on track, and major roads were open for business with speed reductions removed, thanks to crews working through the weekend.
But expect some side streets in the city and elsewhere to remain fit for sleigh rides this week and trash pickup to be delayed. City offices will be shut down again Tuesday, as will Philly school buildings, with Camden and more calling for a snow day or opting for remote learning.
And if you’re stepping outside, get used to that underfoot crunching sensation. The removal operation isn’t going to get much help this week from the atmosphere. It’s about to turn about as frigid as it ever gets around here. New Jersey officials are warning of “historic” demands on energy.
“We’re going to be in the freezer all week,” said Mike Gorse, meteorologist at the National Weather Service Office in Mount Holly. Philly may have its first zero-degree reading in 32 years later in the week.
It’s as if after recent wimpy winters, the Arctic is reacquainting with Philly and much of the rest of the East.
And did we mention another snow threat for the weekend?
“There’s a chance,” said Marc Chenard, meteorologist with NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center in iced-over College Park, Md., who was among those who had to chuck some frozen boulders before leaving for work Monday morning. “I had to chip it and carry it in pieces,” he said. Sound familiar?
Why this storm was particularly challenging
Snow totals for the biggest snowfall since Jan. 22-23, 2016, varied throughout the region; the inconveniences, not so much.
A general 8 to 12 inches of snow and sleet accumulated while temperatures remained mostly in the teens Sunday, 10 degrees or more below forecast.
A shallow layer of warmer air caused a changeover to sleet, and the tiny ice balls remained frozen for the entire trip through the stubbornly cold air near the surface. As much as 2 to 3 inches of sleet piled on,containing the same amount of liquid as several inches of snow.
That added weight to the snowpack. Based on the amount of melted precipitation measured in the 9.3 inches at Philadelphia International Airport, the snowpack weighed about as much as a 12- to 15-inch pile of the pure flaky fluff.
On a 200-square-foot driveway — a 10 by 20 — what fell Sunday weighed about 1,100 pounds. On a 100-square-foot sidewalk — 5 by 20 — that would be about 550 pounds.
In addition, ice tends to be rather shovel resistant.
This is going to be a memorably cold week in Philly
The ice and snow isn’t going to give up easily. On Monday, temperatures topped out in the upper 20s, and that’s going to be warmest day of the week.
Based on the forecast, it may not get above 28 degrees until next week, said Chenard, a cold streak the region hasn’t seen in decades.
Chenard said the upper-air patterns remain in place to import Arctic air on winds from the northwest for at least the next several days.
In fact, temperatures may have trouble getting out of the teens in Philly until the weekend, and Philly has a shot at reaching zero for the first time in 32 years.
The forecast lows are in the single digits all week, and down to 1 degree on Friday morning and 2 degrees on Saturday, the National Weather Service says. Both would be record lows for the dates.
The stubborn snow cover “absolutely” will increase the chances of the airport reaching zero for the first time since January 1994, Gorse said. Snow is ideal for radiating daytime warmth (such as it is) into space.
Temperatures will moderate some on the weekend, he said, but that might come in advance of yet another storm.
Said Chenard, “There will be coastal low. It’s a matter of how close it is.”
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One historic footnote in the Philly weather annals
Philly’s official snowfall total for the winterstands at 15.7 inches, almost double normal for the date and double what fell all of last season.
It beat the 8.5 inches of Jan. 25, 2000, a day that the weather service just as soon would like to forget.
The storm came as a surprise, just a week after a weather service honcho announced a computer upgrade that would bring the nation closer to a “no surprise” era.
Expect surprises to continue.
Staff writers Ximena Conde, Kristen A. Graham, Maddie Hanna, Rob Tornoe, and Nick Vadala contributed to this article.
Four months after the chain closed nearly 20 locations and filed for bankruptcy, a federal judge has approved the acquisition of Iron Hill’s trademark and intellectual property in conjunction with the transfer of five restaurant leases, including one in Philadelphia, according to court documents filed over the weekend.
The shuttered brewpubs in Center City, Huntingdon Valley, Hershey, Lancaster, and Wilmington are set to be taken over by new tenants, each of which is referred to as “IHB” in the documents. Earlier this month, these tenants registered as business corporations under “IHB” and the name of each location, according to state records in Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Judge Jerrold N. Poslusny Jr. also approved a written agreement that allowed for “Rightlane LLC” to assume Iron Hill Brewery’s trademark and intellectual property, according to the same filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New Jersey.
A view from the outside looking in on a closed Iron Hill Brewery.
On Monday, Crivello confirmed that the assets of his five remaining Iron Hills, along with the brand’s trademark and intellectual property, had been acquired by a buyer called Right Lane.
There are several companies that go by the name Rightlane or Right Lane. Attempts to reach representatives of the Right Lane that was involved in the Iron Hill deal were unsuccessful.
Iron Hill Brewery, which was founded in Newark, Del., developed a loyal following over its nearly 30 years in business. Fellow business owners and brewers considered it a pioneer in the local craft beer scene and a restaurant that helped put suburban downtowns like West Chester and Media on the map. Customers said they loved its family-friendly atmosphere.
Since then, massive shells of former breweries have sat vacant throughout the region. As the case made its way through bankruptcy court, landlords were delayed in their searches for new tenants.
Many locations still remain empty, with no word on what might fill the spaces. But in some spots, there are signs of life.
The company that owns P.J. Whelihan’s may be moving into the former Iron Hill in Newtown, Bucks County.
Last month, PJW Opco LLC, which is registered at the headquarters of PJW Restaurant Group, was approved to take over a lease for an 8,000-square-foot closed Iron Hill in the Village at Newtown shopping center.
