Chestnut Hill Local

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...

Community leaders decry R-8 cuts

BY TOM NAMAKO

Momentum was against Marc Stier and the Northwest Campaign for Public Transportation at this month’s SEPTA board meeting. Stier, a member of the NCPT steering committee and president of the West Mount Airy Neighbors, had only three minutes to present five points to a group that had recently initiated cuts to midday service on the R8 regional rail line. His arguments followed the woeful Don Nigro, president of the Delaware Valley Association of

Bell’s Mill Road plans in
CHCA’s future agenda

By KATIE WORRALL

After briefly considering a Chestnut Hill homeowner’s plans for an addition to a carriage house, the Chestnut Hill Community Association Development Review Committee on November 18 discussed projects on East and West Bell’s Mill Roads.

Marie Lachat, the CHCA community manager, will contact the city to learn its plans for West Bell’s Mill Road between Germantown and...

Three faiths, one peace view
aired by Jerusalem women

by MARK STAPLES

Judith Keshet, a Jewish Israeli; Mai Nassar, a Greek Orthodox Christian; and Rawan Damen, a Palestinian Muslim, have become good friends in the short time they have been on a U.S. tour. They had not known each other back home in Israel before the organization “Partners for Peace” brought them to America for a tour involving several dozen stops in Washington, D.C., Delaware, Maryland, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Once they return home to an occupied land where hundreds of...

Germantown man shot
and carjacked in Chestnut Hill

by MICHAEL J. MISHAK

A Wachovia Bank courier was shot and carjacked on November 20 on Cresheim Valley Drive near Germantown Avenue by two men who may have expected more than just 20 bags of cancelled checks, police said.

James Baggs, 45, was en route to the Wachovia Bank at Fourth and Market streets to drop off the bundle of cancelled checks when one of two assailants approached the driver's-side window of his 1993...

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