Last Tuesday was opening night in the long-running Philadelphia/Suburban Women's Summer Basketball League, which got its start decades ago at Chestnut Hill's own Water Tower Recreation Center.
The following crime report is for crimes reported in Chestnut Hill and Mt. Airy for the period from May 16 to June 6.
Even before pandemic shutdowns, historic house museums were having a rough time. But our local house museums are working hard to buck that trend, including those in Historic Germantown.
Northwest Philadelphia’s remarkable treasures of Modern architecture are being celebrated in late May at the annual DOCOMOMO-US conference, this year being held in Philadelphia.
Rowers from Germantown Academy, Germantown Friends School, Penn Charter, and Springside Chestnut Hill Academy joined athletes from more than 180 other schools last Friday and Saturday for the annual Stotesbury Cup Regatta.
At the June 6 workshop meeting, Springfield Township manager Michael Taylor outlined updated strategies implemented by township police in response to the mass shooting last month at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
Springside Chestnut Hill Academy celebrated the 10th anniversary of its distinctive program for teaching entrepreneurship this year with the announcement of a $3 million gift from former board chair Dick Hayne.
Almost a year and a half after announcing his departure, Head of School Stephen L. Druggan is stepping down from Springside Chestnut Hill Academy to become the Superintendent of the American School of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
In the past few months, the Local has published multiple articles and letters from readers about theft from mailboxes and post offices. I offer …
In leading in confronting aggression in Ukraine, America is upholding the idea that freedom is not free.
Hats off (or rather, bike helmets off) to John Meigs for his recent letter promoting bicycling by means of his gentle corrective to a May 26 …
Part of the problem between the SEPTA board and the riders is that the members of the board do not always listen carefully to riders' concerns …
EMAN has now created a division between the residential community and the business community....divisive to say the least. Working together to …
The repeal of Roe v. Wade offers the people of this nation a hope that we may begin the arduous process of reclaiming representative government …
I’ve grown weary of articles in the Local that assume a progressive consensus in our neighborhood on almost everything related to sexuality, …
We are hoping to change the norm of treating Pastorius Park as an off-leash dog park, which it is not.