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A short life for Mt. Airy shop
Herbe Apothecare, one of several new shops to open in the Mt. Airy business district in recent months, has closed. The store, which specialized in a line of herbal extracts and tea blends, closed in late June, about two months after opening shop.
Schwartz scores $150,000 for Black Horse Inn
U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.) secured $150,000 in federal grant money for the Black Horse Inn conservation effort last week as part of the Interior and Environmental Appropriations Act, which passed the House 410-10.
Makeup of CHCA board clarified at July meeting
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Local News
PHANTASTIC RACE.
The Philly Phanatic joined the crowd of runners warming up just before the annual Run for the Hill of It race got underway Saturday morning on Forbidden Drive. For race results, see Sports.
(Photo by James Sturdivant)
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 Developers partner to rehab historic Mt. Airy site
by MICHAEL MISHAK
Two Philadelphia-area developers have partnered to purchase and renovate the Mt. Airy site at the heart of last year’s preservation controversy. Nolen Companies, of Manayunk, and Visionary Development Company, of Wallingford, Pa., are drafting plans to convert two historic buildings on West Johnson Street into market-rate apartments, said principals of both firms in interviews last week.
 Mt. Airyite running on Green Party ticket
by MICHAEL J. MISHAK
The field just got crowded. Making the July 25 deadline, the Green Party of Philadelphia filed nomination papers last week to run Mt. Airy resident Marlene Santoyo, a retired public school teacher and longtime activist, in the race to fill the vacant state House seat left by Sen. LeAnna Washington.
At issue: Hill’s role in state road project
By AMY BRISSON
Speeding, smashed cars and short cuts were all on the table at last week’s meeting of the Chestnut Hill Community Association’s traffic, transportation and parking committee at Hiram Lodge. The discussion focused on what the community could do to address traffic problems using funds and resources from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) Germantown Avenue improvement project.
Council to tackle ‘stop and go’ biz
By MICHAEL J. MISHAK
A new state law gives City Council veto power over liquor licensees who opt to sell takeout beer and malt liquor. The law, signed by Gov. Rendell last month, requires the city’s 2,400 liquor license holders to apply for a special takeout permit starting Sept. 6. The permits must receive Council approval. |
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Local Life
Jessie Morgan is a lifesaver — literally!
by LEN LEAR
When she was five years old, Germantown resident Jessica Morgan (friends all call her “Jessie”), now 55, was given a cute puppy she named Jerry. Jessie fell in love immediately, but the puppy was not house-trained, of course, and proceeded to relieve himself often in the house in Summit, New Jersey, where Morgan grew up. After just one week, Jessie’s frustrated parents took the little dog back to the animal shelter from which he had been adopted.
Modern-day Monet at Morris Arboretum
by MARIE FOWLER
Gordon Gibfried is a modern-day Monet, and his garden is the Morris Arboretum! Water, Trees and Sky, an exhibition of Gibfried’s landscapes created on the arboretum’s grounds, is on view in the Upper Gallery at the arboretum’s Widener Visitors Center through September 4. “I’ve been painting here for 30 years,” says Gibfried, who still recalls his first visits while a student at the Philadelphia College of Art in the early 1970s. “We were living in the middle of the city,” Gibfried remembers. “There was no green. We’d take the A Local out here with paints and canvasses. This has been a sanctuary for me,” he continues, almost reverently.
Mt. Airy ‘movie man’ projects love of films to senior citizens
by JOIA HARVEY
“My name is Paul Sofian, and I just love the movies!” In Linden Hall, at the Friends Home in Kennett Square, Sofian, 58, is beginning a slide presentation on classic movies entitled “1939, Hollywood’s Greatest Year.” The long-time Mt. Airy resident has been giving presentations of this kind all over the Philadelphia area for the past three years, but he never gets tired of talking about his favorite subject: the movies. This is his fourth time at the Friends’ Home, where he has given all three of his talks, “Marilyn Monroe: The Never-Ending Dream,” “The Great Hollywood Musicals” and “1939, Hollywood’s Greatest Year.”
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Sports
CHC hoopsters top Cabrini, bow to Gwynedd
by TOM UTESCHER
The Chestnut Hill College women closed out their summer basketball season in the Malvern League by splitting two games last week, defeating league host Cabrini College, 57-52, on Monday, then losing on Wednesday night to Gwynedd Mercy, 61-50. The scoreboard was allowed to loaf at the start of Monday’s game, as the teams managed just one field goal between them during the first five minutes.
GFS hires new boys’ basketball coach
by TOM UTESCHER
William Dooley of Warrington has been hired as the Head Coach of the Germantown Friends School Boys’ Varsity Basketball Team. “Bill brings both the high level experience and the energy to the program that we were looking for. His coaching credentials speak for themselves and I couldn’t be happier to have him on board,” remarked GFS Boys’ Athletic Director Tom Myran of Chestnut Hill..
A Run to Remember
Runners converging on Northwestern Avenue early Saturday morning for the 18th annual Run for the Hill of It 5 mile run and 1 mile fun walk were greeted by cloudy skies and no rain — perfect weather for a vigorous run down dusty Forbidden Drive to Valley Green Inn and back. After a pep talk and applause for this year’s beneficiary, Nate Makowicz, and his family, the race was on, and the first to cross the finish line 24 minutes and 31 seconds later was Philadelphia’s Bryan Skelly, followed closely by fellow Philadelphian Ryan Fennelly (24:33). Rounding out the top five were Tom Haxton (24:47) of Philadelphia, Art Dicola (25:04) of Bryn Mawr and Mike Padilla (25:59) of Phoenixville, Pa.
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