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Two shot dead in East Mt. Airy
Two young men were gunned down in East Mt. Airy last week. Both met particularly violent deaths in separate incidents, police said. The victims were shot multiple times in the head.
Senior center to screen ‘Wings’
On Tuesday, June 7 at 1 p.m., the Chestnut Hill Senior Center will screen Wings (1927, 139 minutes), the first film ever to win an Academy Award for best picture. The film stars Buddy Rogers and Clara Bow, with a cameo appearance by Gary Cooper.
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Aubrey Carter, Cam Kraemer and Will Doliner of the baby class at Christ Lutheran Child Care Center squeeze in for a wagon ride at the center’s trike-a-thon, held May 14. The center spent a week raising money and teaching bike safety, culminating in a parade of bikes, trikes and wagons on a pretend “street.” The effort raised nearly $800 for St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital.
Aiello, Ross Cowper top vote-getters in CHCA election
State of community address, awards presentation
highlight annual meeting.
by JAMES STURDIVANT
Last month’s primaries may have been predictable, but Chestnut Hill’s home-grown race for the board of directors of the CHCA held all the drama of an old-school party convention, with last-minute ballot submissions, late night tallying and, when the dust finally settled early Friday morning, results that took more than a few by surprise.
 Biemiller to step down as CHBA director
by JAMES STURDIVANT
Chestnut Hill Business Association executive director Suzanne Biemiller has announced that she will be leaving the job after two years in order to return to her former employer, the Pew Charitable Trusts. Her last day with the CHBA will be June 8. “The Pew board just created a new program in May basically aimed at managing and investing in major civic projects in Philadelphia. I was asked by Pew to manage it. ... it was an offer I couldn’t refuse,” she told the Local this week.
Springfield schools reject tax-relief plan
by MICHAEL J. MISHAK
Joining an overwhelming majority of school districts statewide, Springfield Township has rejected Act 72, Harrisburg’s plan to distribute an expected gambling windfall in the form of property-tax relief. Philadelphia was a mandatory participant in the program, which stipulates that the city’s share of gaming revenue be used to reduce the wage tax. While suburban residents who work in the city will reap some benefit in the form of wage-tax cuts, Springfield is one of hundreds of districts that closed the only available avenue for promised property-tax relief.
Ex-Miller Aide Resigns from Nonprofit Post
by MICHAEL J. MISHAK
Amid rumors that the Commerce Department planned to withhold city funding from the Central Germantown Council, Steven Vaughn resigned last Friday as president of the community development corporation. The announcement came two weeks after Vaughn, a former City Council aide who pleaded guilty to federal charges in April, said he would not seek reelection to the group, which he has headed since 1997.go.
GFS exorcises Devils on the way to semifinal tourney loss
by ANDREW LAZOR
The Tigers of Germantown Friends School (18-2) legitimized their status as one of the area’s best baseball teams with an 8-6 thriller over Chestnut Hill Academy May 26. GFS earned a sizeable lead early by taking advantage of weak pitching, repeating the same formula that earned them a 9-1 win at home over the Blue Devils back on April 8.
More ties for CHA golf & Soowal
by TOM UTESCHER
Chestnut Hill Academy and Haverford School golfers are courteous to a fault; each team simply refuses to beat the other. In mid-May, the Blue Devils and Fords tied in both of their head-to-head regular season matches, and thus tied for the 2005 Inter-Ac League championship with identical records of 7-1-2. Last Tuesday, in the Inter-Ac Tournament at Aronimink Golf Club, they were at it again.
Locals on show at national lacrosse tournament
by TOM UTESCHER
Instead of rolling across the pine barrens towards the Jersey shore last weekend, many of the area’s best lacrosse players headed up Route 309 to Lehigh University to participate in the unique stickfest that is the U.S. Lacrosse Women’s Division National Tournament.
Malvern edges Charter for track title
by TOM UTESCHER
Going into the finals of the 200 meter dash, the second-to-last event of the day, meet host Penn Charter held a slim one-and-a-half-point (46-44.5) lead over the Friars of Malvern Prep at the Inter-Ac Track and Field Championships on May 21.
Mount lacrosse runner-up at AACA
by TOM UTESCHER
They say that it’s very difficult for a team to beat a particular opponent three times in one season, but apparently they didn’t say it to the lacrosse team at Merion Mercy Academy.
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To dine, or not to dine?
New York Times puzzlemaster
brings fine dining to Mt. Airy
by LEN LEAR
Like me, you may be mystified and frustrated by the New York Times crossword puzzles, but it is no puzzle at all to figure out why Hamlet Bistro, which opened May 21 at 7105 Emlen St. in West Mt. Airy, is already being received by diners in Mt. Airy and Chestnut Hill as warmly as a puppy in an elementary school class.
Mt. Airy’s Julia Weekes makes
city more beautiful every day
by ANNE BARR
 Mt. Airy resident Julia Weekes. Weekes was in Paris last month to be named a “Woman of the Earth” by the Yves Rocher Foundation in recognition of her work bringing the beauty and transformative power of gardens to distressed communities in North Philadelphia.
80-year-old Mt. Airy twins
to be honored at Allens Lane
by AMY MASTERMAN
“Nobody will be excluded from our neighborhood,” was what Shirley Melvin and Doris Polsky vowed when they moved to Mt. Airy from Greys Ferry in 1943. Their family had been told that they might not feel comfortable as the only Jewish family in the neighborhood, but the girls, then 19, not only enjoyed their new home, but went on to actively create a place where people from all religious and ethnic backgrounds would feel welcome.
Swan song for great
Mt. Airy ballet dancer, 42
by MICHAEL CARUSO
As I watched West Mt. Airy’s David Krensing rehearse for his performance as Tybalt in the Pennsylvania Ballet’s production of Romeo and Juliet one day last week, I found myself once again impressed by the ease with which he danced the demanding moves of John Cranko’s choreography and the intensity with which he invested his characterization, even during a rehearsal.
Hill actor, playwright, novelist
and, now, Socrates
by CLARK GROOME
When Gregg Almquist entered the University of Minnesota in the late 1960s, “My major was going to be theater,” he said. “I walked up to meet [my advisor], and I saw all these people prancing around in leotards and kissing one another on the navel and things like that. I thought ‘No.’ I went and changed my major to classics. “I thought I’d translate plays. But then I started acting.” And here it is 35 years later, and the Minnesota native who now lives in Chestnut Hill is still at it.
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