Letters: March 20
Letters March 20, 2013 1 Comment
Remembering the Iraq War March 2003 saw the start of the Iraq War. Ten years later, we know that the war’s human costs have included the deaths of at least 100,000 Iraqi civilians, permanent injury to more than 30,000 American servicemen and women, and the deaths of more than 4,000 American soldiers. As the war’s [...]
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Letters: March 13
Letters March 13, 2013 2 Comments
No place to park at top of hill Where can handicapped and elderly patrons of the Chestnut Hill Library park? Where can parents with small children using the library park? Where can people donating large numbers of books to the library book sale or removing cartons of unsalable items park? There used to be an [...]
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Letters: March 6
Letters March 6, 2013 1 Comment
Writing doesn’t seem to work As a longtime contributor/letter writer, it seems that I must respond to your editorial about where the letters have gone. [“Where did all the letters go?” Feb. 28] You still have varied “thank you” letters, you still have anti-deer kill letters, but what you are lacking are the controversial, “I [...]
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Letters: February 27
Letters February 27, 2013 0 Comments
A ‘thank you’ from the blood drive A special thank you to Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, Miller-Keystone Blood Center, and dozens of generous individual donors for making this year’s annual Chestnut Hill Community Association blood drive a success! On Saturday we were host to 80 prospective donors throughout the morning and collected 66 units of [...]
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Letters: February 21
Letters February 21, 2013 0 Comments
‘A struggle for the ages’ Thank you for publishing David Cantor’s commentary, “Philadelphia’s Deer Kill Is Bad for Deer and Humans Alike,” in the Feb. 14 issue of the Local. Sadly, our society remains in a seemingly self-serving albeit delusional, omnipotent stance towards all those with whom we share life, as the hubris of hegemonic [...]
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Letters: February 6
Letters February 6, 2013 0 Comments
Fiction often truer than facts Regarding Hugh Gilmore’s fascinating column last week [“Speculations on Lance, the missing inch and fiction vs. memoir”] on fact and fiction, of course we need both. I’ve thought that good art speaks a truth beyond facts. Once when I was at Rhodes University in South Africa I was asked to [...]
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Letters: January 30
Letters January 30, 2013 7 Comments
Support Chestnut Hill Farmers Market In a community that is ever active in saving important landmarks in it’s neighborhood, I address this letter. I have lived in Mt. Airy for over forty years and welcome new businesses that help to make this such a vibrant place to live, work and shop. However , this does [...]
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