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Jenks students meld
education with art
A rainforest is sprouting from the wall of John S. Jenks elementary school in the form of ceramic tiles, mirrored glass and the efforts of parents, students, teachers and non-profit educational art organization NetworkArts.
Hilltop lot to be
office, apartment space
A two-story building is scheduled to fill the empty lot at 18 Hilltop Road, property owner Mark Haber said. The lot has been vacant for as long as near neighbors can remember, but Haber has received the permits and plans to begin construction on an office and apartment space, to be completed in about six months. Approximately three years ago, Haber approached the Chestnut Hill Community Association’s Development and Review Committee with plans to build a row of townhouses on the 9,300-square-foot property. The project would not have fallen within the property’s zoning code. The committee dictated that he speak with the near neighbors, but after two meetings, neighbors couldn’t decide whether to support the project, said Haber’s attorney, Carl Primavera of Klehr, Harrison, Harvey, Branzburg & Ellers in Philadelphia.
Holdup marks series
of crimes The man walking towards her lifted his shirt to reveal a large black gun and demanded that she turn over her ring, her watch and her purse, yelling at her to hurry up.
Bottom of Chestnut
Hill is SO Happy
The boutiques, restaurants and other retailers to the south of Southampton Avenue are making a name for themselves – literally. SOHA, or South of Hartwell Lane, developed because business owners on Germantown Avenue south of Hartwell wanted their strip of stores to be known as something less derogatory than “Bottom of the Hill,” which it is often called. The name SOHA is a spin-off of New York City’s SOHO district. It is an acronym for “South of Hartwell Lane” because, originally, that’s where the shops involved were located. But when the businesses north of Hartwell caught wind of the idea, they asked to join (and “Southampton Avenue” does work with SOHA).
BETHEL, Ohio – “Don’t make Philly girls mad!” Devon Stewart declared after her Mount St. Joseph Academy lightweight eight won the U.S. Rowing Youth National Championships on June 11. The sophomore coxswain’s admonition came too late for one of the Magic’s chief competitors, who’d just learned that lesson the hard way. A very fast light eight from the Marin Rowing Association of California’s Marin County arrived at the championships outside of Cincinnati with high expectations. Their coxswain had gone one step further; before leaving home, she had told the Marin Independent Journal, “I think we’re untouchable.”
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Airy dance school has teens reaching for the sky
When Emily Becker starts her first year at John Hopkins University this September, she will bring with her much more than a diploma from Wissahickon High School. She will take the discipline, time management skills and self-confidence that 10 years of dancing with the Pennsylvania Dance Conservatory (PDC) have given her.
Please
help find Matty; her family is heartbroken
I wasn’t too concerned when I got the voice mail from my wife on Monday morning June 12, that our shi-tzu, Matty, had run away. It had happened a few times before, and within an hour she would come back or a neighbor would bring her to us. She would never get too far.
Connection
to Wm. Penn ship; she celebrates 100th birthday
Every thread in the fabric of Mary N.L. Woodmansee’s makeup is regal, historic and filled with pride for her family heritage. Mary, who grew up in Horsham (her family owned the Horsham Hotel) but has lived most of her life in the Fort Washington area, will celebrate her 100th birthday Wednesday, June 21 — the day this issue of the Local is distributed to local stores and honor boxes. (We were originally planning to interview Mary for this article, but she suffered a stroke on Memorial Day and is currently recuperating at Springhouse Estates, a retirement living facility in eastern Montgomery County. Thus, we felt it might be too stressful to attempt to interview Mary at this time.) Mary (maiden name, Nash) had no siblings except for a half-brother, Frederick Nash, who is buried in the graveyard at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Fort Washington. She was married twice, but her second husband died in the 1960s, and she never had any children. Her first husband’s last name was Layman.
The
ultimate fan opens ‘Three Stooges’ museum
Movie memorabilia is widely collected, but few collections come anywhere near that of Gary Lassin’s in terms of size and scope. Lassin, 51, who lives in nearby Gwynedd Valley, has been collecting Three Stooges’ memorabilia for more than 25 years and has amassed upwards to 20,000 items, which he proudly displays in his “Stoogeum” (Stooges Museum). He has another 50,000 photographs and news clippings in ring binders, an impressive Stooges archive. It is the world’s largest collection of Three Stooges memorabilia
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