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Sustainability chief to leave City Sustainability Director Mark Alan Hughes will be leaving the Nutter administration. His last day will be June 18. Hughes said that he was ready to move on now that he had finished work on the city sustainability plan. That plan, Greenworks, which lays out a set of environmental goals for the city to reach by 2015, was unveiled two weeks ago.
Sustainability chief to leave
City Sustainability Director Mark Alan Hughes will be leaving the Nutter administration. His last day will be June 18. Hughes said that he was ready to move on now that he had finished work on the city sustainability plan. That plan, Greenworks, which lays out a set of environmental goals for the city to reach by 2015, was unveiled two weeks ago.
The former Daily News columnist was appointed more than a year ago. Hughes said that he hopes to return to academic work. "It was always clear I was never going to spend all my career in a tie," Hughes said.
International visitors flock here
Philadelphia hosted a record-breaking 710,000 international visitors in 2008, an increase of more than 150,000 from the previous year, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce's Office of Travel and Tourism. The 29 percent increase is the largest by any city in the top 20 most-visited cities in the United States. It also means that Philadelphia moved from 12th to 11th place in the top 20 destinations.
Fallen heroes honored today
Four Philadelphia police officers who lost their lives in the line of duty will be honored with the Presidential Award of the Citizens Crime Commission at the 28th annual Law Enforcement Appreciation Day luncheon today in the Park Hyatt Philadelphia at the Bellevue.
They are Isabel Nazario, Timothy Simpson, Stephen Liczbinski and Patrick McDonald, who all died on duty last year.
Local group gets national nod
Asociacion Puertorriqueños en Marcha, a North Philadelphia agency, was named one of the top-25 Hispanic nonprofits in the nation by Hispanic Business magazine for the second year in a row. The agency helps families with housing, education, health care and human services.
A case for CSI, and a janitor
A Westville man is in a mess of trouble for allegedly making a mess inside a police station.
Gloucester Township police said that Jason Detora, 24, was at the station early Sunday when he went into the men's room, defecated on the floor, smeared feces on the walls and set fire to paper towels and toilet paper.
He was being held at the Camden County Jail on arson and criminal-mischief charges. *
- Staff and wire reports