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Tax reforms and the Northwest:

What the Tax Reform Commission's report means for Chestnut Hill

by MICHAEL J. MISHAK

While the Philadelphia Tax Reform Commission delivered its final report last week in three massive volumes replete with painstaking detail, its "fiscally and socially responsible" recommendations to overhaul the city's burdensome tax structure will remain ideas on paper unless City Council and Mayor Street make them a reality.

While welcomed by many in the business community, that...

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In Sports...

Hill teams play well in Lancaster’s
Hempfield tournement

by GRAHAM ROBB

Thirteen of the Chestnut Hill Youth Sports Club’s travel soccer teams recently visited Lancaster for the Hempfield Tournament. Chestnut Hill’s contingent was the second largest number of teams from a single club, after the host Hempfield club. The tournament featured 340 teams of girls and boys ages 9 to 18 and included many of the strongest soccer club teams from Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Virginia.

Over 450 parents, coaches and players attended the club’s eighth...

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What the Tax Reform Commission's report means for Chestnut Hill

by LEN LEAR

“Faith is the bird that sings while it’s still dark.”----Helen Keller

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When the Back Home Catering firm recently catered a fine china event for the Pennsylvania Ballet board members; or when they catered an event for the First United Methodist Church of Germantown; or when they catered a bar mitzvah for the Mishkan Shalom congregation in Roxborough, a disinterested onlooker would never have guessed that...

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