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On a Roll A worker from S. Veccione Contractors of Oreland smoothes things over behind Osaka during a Chestnut Hill District-funded lot repaving project on Evergreen Avenue last Tuesday. The lot across the street (next to the farmer’s market) was also paved this week, part of an effort to upgrade all of the lots within the next two years. (Photo by James Sturdivant)

New wave of assaults hits Hill by MICHAEL J. MISHAK Four men fell victim to brutal assaults in separate incidents last week as they walked the streets of Chestnut Hill. The attacks, perpetrated by a roving group of teenagers, bear similarities to a recent spate of muggings reported on by the Local last month. A year after bankruptcy, sudden interest in a building’s fate Mayor Street tours Women’s Y with Germantown nonprofit by MICHAEL J. MISHAK A nonprofit group with deep ties to City Councilwoman Donna Reed Miller courted Mayor Street last month in connection with its effort to purchase the home of the Germantown Women’s Y, an historic institution that filed for bankruptcy last August. Big boosts for Black Horse Inn, Bethlehem Pike U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz said $950,000 in federal grants would help preserve history and spur economic development in Springfield Township by MICHAEL J. MISHAK In the largest infusion of funds to the Black Horse Inn restoration effort, U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz, (D., Pa.) presented Springfield Township officials and inn advocates last week with an oversized check from Washington for $150,000. OMC pastors bring commitment to ‘shared priesthood’ by JAMES STURDIVANT The Rev. Bob Bazzoli and the Rev. Joseph P. Jocco, newly-arrived clergy at Chestnut Hill’s Our Mother of Consolation parish, have more in common than just a priestly vocation. Both are members of the religious order of Saint Francis de Sales, which has responsibility for administering the 150-year-old parish. And the philosophy of this order brings with it a certain approach to parish life. A road to recovery for families of murder victims by AMY BRISSON The pain experienced by families of homicide victims can be debilitating. Few know this better than Julie Good, executive director of the Germantown-based Anti-Violence Partnership of Philadelphia.