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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Letters: January 24

Letters January 24, 2013 2 Comments

Must be a better parking solution Recently there have been some letters regarding the parking situation in Chestnut Hill. I went to Palladio’s to pick up a picture that my wife had framed for me. It was a Christmas gift but because of her illness she didn’t get to give it to me. Palladio’s had [...]
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Letters: January 9

Letters January 9, 2013 0 Comments

“Encouraged” by local thoughts on gun control There is nothing like the editorial pages of a newspaper to showcase the sound conceptual thinking of its readers. Your Dec. 27 issue is a case in point. Here we are offered the amazing fact that had Russell Byers packed heat on the night he was stabbed he [...]
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Letters: January 2

Letters January 2, 2013 0 Comments

Shocked by meetinghouse vandalism I read with shock and dismay yours as well as the Inquirer’s coverage of the vandalism that occurred at the new Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting House. I am not a Quaker and my exposure to them comes only through my children attending Greene Street Friends as well as Penn Charter, but [...]
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Letters: Dec. 28

Letters December 28, 2012 2 Comments

The price of feeling powerful Many worthy people just love their guns; hunting, target shooting, or just admiring the intricate mechanisms. But the currently most popular semiautomatic firearms are not really the best for hunting (too much meat torn up) and training marksmen (too many bullets spraying out). Their actual purpose in the real world [...]
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Letters: December 20

Letters December 19, 2012 0 Comments

NRA responsible for kids’ murders I don’t yet have the names of those children or their teachers yet, but we do know who is responsible for corrupting our political system so that it tolerates the killing of children: the NRA. One thing that needs to happen now: Determined gatherings at the NRA HQ in Fairfax, [...]
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Letters, Thursday Dec. 14

Letters December 12, 2012 1 Comment

After one ticket, enough is enough! I’ve been a loyal Chestnut Hill shopper for some time now, but the current militant attitude of the parking meter people from Philadelphia are chasing me away! Even if you pay – don’t dare miss by two minutes – they are there! Don’t have a broken meter. They are [...]
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