These highways are the important arteries that keep Bala Cynwyd going.

I-76: useful for commuting, will get you to Pittsburgh.

I-676: non-intrusive, gets you directly into Center City.

I-95: gets you to New York. Connects easily to I-676.

Route 1: Good if you don’t like freeways, runs along major arteries.

Route 30: Also known as Lancaster avenue, goes all the way to San Francisco. Full of shops and stuff

State route 23: gets you to Conshohocken, works as minor artery.

Sorry for the short article, I had to cram in some work and almost forgot.

I like falafel. It tastes good, It looks good for you while being fried, and gets served in Pita. And there’s a place in center city that makes some of the best falafel i’ve had. So let’s do a Gazette style review of this place, and see how it fares.

Location: At 3rd and Market, nine blocks away from Jefferson Station and a block away from 2nd Street Station. 1/1

Appetizers: This being a falafel place, there are no appetizers. 0/0

Price: The falafel is $3, with fries and soup being $4. Also, the pita is free. 4/5

Main Meal Quality: The falafel was delicious, and I heard from the person that I was eating with that the soup was good. 4.9/5

In total, this place is awesome, with a total score of 9.9/11

In case you’ve been living under one of those rocks in the park on Llandrillo Rd, there have been a lot of condos going up in Bala Cynwyd. And despite the popular opinion, this is a good thing, for the following reasons:

1. This means extra transit, better stores and nicer restaurants, which nobody can argue with.
2. The condos mean that property values will go up, and that’s not a bad thing in a upper-middle class neighborhood like Cynwyd where the “people who’ve lived here for decades will be kicked out!” argument is serious.
3. Who doesn’t like extra people to hang around at the park with!

On the “bad things” side of the ledger, there will need to be a bit more public investment and there will be a bit more traffic on various main arteries like Rock Hill Road.

In total, Condos are a better thing for Bala Cynwyd. This was a opinion piece by Jonah Vogl.

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Well, it’s time, once again, to make an article for you people. And today, we have a good one. Get ready for a restaurant review!

Location: The pub is at Montgomery Avenue and Gordon Avenue, diagonal to Narberth Beverage. Accessible by the 44 bus. 0.8/1

Prices: A meal for three with an appetizer was about $55. The burgers are $10, and that includes fries and a pickle. 4/5

Appetizer Quality: The pub has amazing wings, and the bread that you get free is of good quality. 5/5.

Main Meal Quality: I had the fish and chips, and it was also amazing. I heard good things about the roast beef sandwich and the steak sandwich. The fish and chips comes with potato chips and not fries, though. 4.5/5

In Total: This place gets a 14.3/16. The only bad thing is that the bread isn’t crusty and that the fish and chips has chips instead of fries.

If you are like me, you like candy. If you do not, and you don’t have a condition that makes it so you can’t eat the stuff, you are either on a diet, crazy, or both. There are a few places you can get candy in the area, and I will cover them all.

1. The delis: these places are okay, but not great. Unless you want halvah or Joyva candies. Then these are the best.
2. CVS: CVS has cheap generic candy, and it tastes good. The only stuff this place isn’t good for is chocolate.
3. Supermarket: not as good as the rest, but it has EVERYTHING.
4. Babis Pharmacy: they have the best chocolate in town. They are also good for when one has loose change, due to the individual stuff there, which costs something like $0.15.

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Spotted lanternflies are an invasive species that likes to hang around The Delaware Valley. Being in the valley, we have decided to give you some advice to deal with these things.

Adults: these are the little guys you see around now are adults, and they are laying eggs. The best bet for getting rid of these things is to stomp on them or hit them with a blunt object.

Eggs: the eggs come in gray sacs. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, the best thing to do with these is do scrape them off the trees where you will find them and throw em’ into a container of rubbing alcohol.

Nymphs: non-adult lanternflies. The proper thing to do is the same thing you do with adults. (Warning: lanternflies can jump up to three feet up from the ground.)

Lanternflies are bad for two reasons: the first is that they eat tree sap, and they like fruit trees and trees of heaven (trees of heaven are the ones that grown in poor soil that look like umbrellas.). The second reason that nothing in America kills them except humans and overactive dogs. You need to kill them because nothing else will do it else effectively. This was a PSA.

Seven Mile Island is home to two towns: Avalon and Stone Harbor. This article Mainly concerns Avalon, but two things are in Stone Harbor.

1. 30th Street Beach: This nice place has amenities such as: Bathrooms and changing rooms for you Day Trippers, A pizza place AND an ice cream place, an arcade (see 2), a playground plus green at the park where the changing rooms are, and nice waves and sand.
2. Greyhound Poker Palace: This place is a good beach arcade, with cranes, okay prizes, ski-ball, and video games. Beware, the prize counter tootsie rolls are impossible to not buy in large amounts. they use cards instead of quarters
3. Fishing Pier Grill, 3rd and 97th: A really good breakfast place. It has very large portions. Located across from Island water sports. Prices in $10 per person range for a meal when you are not absolutely famished.
4. Island water sports: This place has kayaking and tubing, but the real attraction is the big inflatable Wibit. Pretty cheap, at $35 for 45 minutes per person. A friendly warning: the green was-on-the-sides thing to get to the slide is HARD.
5. The Buccaneer, 27th and Dune: This place is pretty good, but you do NOT want anything larger than a kiddie. This place has never heard of portion control.
6. Tonio’s, 24th and Ocean, 6093685558: This place has the best takeout in Avalon. They have both pizza and seafood, and the pizza turnovers are AWESOME.
7. Pirate Island Mini Golf, 27th and Dune: It’s a good golf course, with good, if a bit gaudy, landscaping and some underground holes.

We over at the Gazette went on vacation, and then summer ended, and then we kind of sort of forgot to post for three weeks… we are very sorry. But now, we are back to posting and informing the probably ten of you who read this. again, sorry.

So, for starters, Silverliners are the commuter trains that Septa uses. They are EMUs, which means they each have their own motors. The types that run today are the Silverliners IV and V. Now let’s do this

Silverliner IV:

Pros: has five seats abreast.

Cons: has no PA system, so the conductors have to yell what station is next.

Silverliner V:

Pros: has PA system and little screens that tell you what the next station is and the time.

Cons: only has four seats abreast.

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