World War II veteran Benjamin Berry is beginning to feel like a celebrity, and no one is more deserving.
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by Len Lear
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9/28/23
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After watching certain TV shows, one might be excused for believing that some celebrities are rather shallow and self-centered, but Melissa Fitzgerald belies the stereotype.
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by Len Lear
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9/28/23
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During its final performance of “ La bohème” on May 7, the Opera Philadelphia company had a surprise visit from a swarm of bees.
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by Len Lear
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9/21/23
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Dr. Claire E. Robinson, named a “Top Doctor” by Philadelphia magazine, is no stranger to well-earned attention.
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by Len Lear
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9/21/23
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It has become so easy to order books online that one would think it must be impossible for a small bookstore to survive. Yet this one does.
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by Len Lear
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8/3/23
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Did you ever go into a small mom-and-pop restaurant and have a wonderful meal, yet there is almost no one there?
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by Len Lear
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7/27/23
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Pete Merzbacher insists he was so busy making his popular baked goods that he did not even realize he was part of a winning team.
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by Len Lear
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7/27/23
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Chestnut Hill's Ethan Monberg is just 12, but the rising eighth grader at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy is already a musical luminary.
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by Len Lear
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7/6/23
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Community spirit is alive and well - and few know that better than the members of Mt. Airy’s Cresheim Village Neighbors.
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by Len Lear
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6/29/23
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Germantown's Lois Volta developed her housecleaning gig into a successful business, a product line, and now a book.
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by Len Lear
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6/22/23
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At 17, Hirmand Azimi fled violence in Afghanistan, an ordeal that has informed his life in Philadelphia, and also fueled his activism.
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by Len Lear
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6/22/23
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Sarah Gutwirth, an acclaimed Chestnut Hill artist, has an interesting story about how she wound up in her job.
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by Len Lear
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6/21/23
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Dr. Rebecca Maury, 53, an internal medicine specialist, was the first medical doctor in the Northwest to approve patients for the use of cannabis from her Germantown Ave. office.
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by Len Lear
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6/1/23
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Susannah Thomer and Joe Borrelli, both in their 70s, have admired one another for more than 50 years. Now her work is being shown at his gallery.
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by Len Lear
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6/1/23
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Germantown resident Sherrie Elle, an author and founder of a book publishing company, is a woman who comes with an unusual story of her own.
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by Len Lear
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5/18/23
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Walter Bell, an international force in jazz, gave up the flute for 20 years because his music career wasn’t paying the bills.
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by Len Lear
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5/11/23
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Faculty and students at Allens Lane Art Center are currently sponsoring a “Spring Fling” fine art and craft sale.
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by Len Lear
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5/11/23
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Howard Myrick knows what it is like to overcome odds and to battle racist attitudes and practices.
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by Len Lear
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5/4/23
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Matines Café, the charming authentic French café that opened last November at 89 Bethlehem Pike, is featuring glass art created by Flannery Cronin.
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by Len Lear
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4/28/23
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Allens Lane Art Center will present the first retrospective exhibition of a true Chestnut Hill artistic legend, the late Carole Sivin (1936-2020).
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by Len Lear
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4/20/23
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