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Noted in the Northwest
A brief look at news in Chestnut Hill and surrounding neighborhoods
Mt. Airy Day will include car show
This year’s Mt. Airy Day festival will take place Saturday, May 7, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Clivden and Upsala.
Monkey Business vandalized
Monkey Business, the consignment shop benefiting the Auxiliary of Chestnut Hill Hospital, had some unwelcome visitors earlier this week.
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When Urban Partners surveyed the Avenue last fall it found 11 vacant storefronts. Considering two adjoining storefronts advertised as office space, the number jumps to 13. According to Jim Hartling, founding partner of Urban Partners, the firm used the following guidelines to designate vacancies: A storefront in which there is not an open store, nor the apparent sign of recent construction aimed at a near-term opening.
by MICHAEL J. MISHAK
 Health of pond a concern for
Pastorius friends group
by JAMES STURDIVANT
The Friends of Pastorius Park is exploring new ways to improve the health of the park’s centerpiece pond, one of several topics discussed at an annual meeting on April 21 that also featured a talk from historian and author David Contosta.
The spring-fed pond develops a filmy layer and unpleasant smell during the summer months due to stagnation. Treating the problem has been a perennial concern for the friends group, which in recent years has applied an enzyme purchased from the Fairmount Park Commission.
 Scientist, astronaut encourages
students to reach for the stars
by MEG CHARENDOFF
Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan, president and CEO of The Center of Science and Industry, Ohio’s nationally recognized science center, wants every child to have the opportunity to touch a star. As part of a two-day visit to Springside School, underwritten by the school’s Physics for Every Girl grant from the E.E. Ford Foundation, Sullivan, a veteran of three space shuttle missions and the first American woman to walk in space, spoke passionately about her experiences as a scientist, an astronaut, an explorer of sea and space, and about the importance of science and scientific learning.
Consignment shop celebrates
50 years of service, great values
by LAURA JAMIESON
Whether you are looking for a formal dress for a night on the town, a suit for a business meeting, or just monkeying around, there is one shop in Chestnut Hill that has it all. On April 19, Monkey Business benefit shop celebrated 50 years of selling upscale and designer clothes, shoes and accessories at great prices and for a great cause.
Editorial: The First Cut
Opinion: View from Another Planet
by Josh Mittledorf
Opinion: City’s summons truly ‘improper’
by MARLENE SANTOYO
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A ‘puff’ article about classy one-year-old Hill cigar store
by CATHERINE BOGGS
“What’s a ‘legal’ Cuban cigar?”
 Astral Plane: culinary star flies
solo for 32 years
by LEN LEAR
Astral Plane, one of the restaurants that sparked Philadelphia’s Restaurant Renaissance in the late 1960s and ‘70s, has lasted an amazing 32 years at 1708 Lombard St.
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Hill Chef: More
Charter a victim as GA lax starts to roll