Peter and Susan Burke, near neighbors of the proposed dialysis center at 10 E. Moreland Avenue, appealed a July 6 Zoning Board of Adjustments decision to allow the dialysis center to operate until 9 p.m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The appeal was filed by attorney Dan McElhatton on Aug. 3. McElhatton represented neighbors opposed to the zoning variance requests of The Good Food Market last year. MoRE
Bob Schneider (above), a former top mechanic at Magarity Chevrolet in Flourtown, is now the lead technician at the Flourtown Gulf service station Other News…
While you can get an eyeful of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s (1841-1919) work (from the last two decades of his life) at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) in their “Late Renoir” exhibit running through Sept. 6, very few Northwest Philadelphia residents are probably aware that several of Renoir’s paintings were originally housed at the Park Gate estate, owned by the McIlhenny family on the border between Germantown and Mt. Airy. More
In between camps, days off, playdates and trips to the shore, this summer was marked by a single looming event – picking a new school for my son. The school he had been attending since pre-K closed it doors for good in early June. The fall and spring application process left his father and I with an uneasy feeling that we had yet to find the right place for our about-to-be third grader. MorE
Mount St. Joseph’s Academy’s 2009 field hockey season ended with an unfortunate footnote: a 1-0 loss to Radnor High School in a PIAA play-in game, which meant that the Magic would not take part in the Class AAA state tournament for the first time since 2002. More
Friends from Chestnut Hill and Mount Airy play wiffle ball at the Water Tower tennis courts. From left, Eric Fries, Jesse Bradley, Luke Williams, Bryan Brooks, Thomas Hendrie, John Spruance, Michael Longstreth and Daniel Dwyer.
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