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For William Konstant, 70, a Flourtown resident for the last 36 years, the top item on his bucket list was climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, East Africa.
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by Len Lear
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12/1/22
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Richard Tuttle, a professional musician and retired lawyer who just released the CD single, “Break Someone Else's Heart,” is also an author whose dialogue is often spellbinding.
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by Len Lear
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12/1/22
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For more than 30 years, organizers hosted a holiday craft show every December at the Water Tower Recreation Center, connecting dozens of artisans from the Philadelphia area with shoppers. Now it's coming back.
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by Len Lear
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12/1/22
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Paul Mercurio, who now lives across the road from Chestnut Hill College, was a typical working class kid growing up in West Oak Lane. Now he's a published author.
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by Len Lear
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11/24/22
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Last month, somebody left a package on the back step of Mt. Airy United Fellowship Church that, according to pastor Rev. Joe Williams, “proves there are angels out there.”
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by Len Lear
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11/10/22
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Stan Cutler, a Chestnut Hill resident for 22 years and a Germantown resident for 20 years before that, is known as a stalwart cheerleader for the local library.
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by Len Lear
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11/10/22
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Erica Paul, the newest member of the Chestnut Hill Local board of directors, joined the board as its treasurer three months ago.
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by Len Lear
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11/10/22
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Two days after Eliza Callard was born, she was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis and was placed in an incubator for three weeks.
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by Len Lear
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10/27/22
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Were you the class clown? The life of the party? Check out the upcoming Mt. Airy Learning Tree classes, “A Gentle, Fun Guide to Doing Stand-Up Comedy.”
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by Len Lear
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10/27/22
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Actor and playwright Josh L. Hitchens, the Theater Artistic Director at Allens Lane Art Center and author of “Haunted History of Philadelphia,” has always loved the macabre.
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by Len Lear
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10/27/22
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Brian Reisman never thought his business would last 20 years when he opened Hideaway Music Store.
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by Len Lear
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10/27/22
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What on earth is a microbiologist like you doing in a place like this?
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by Len Lear
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10/6/22
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Mt. Airy author Janet Mason has done it again.
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by Len Lear
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10/6/22
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Today there is no shortage of opinions about young people presumably wasting their time while glued to their phones. But one cannot help but be impressed by Karina Chan-van der Helm.
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by Len Lear
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9/29/22
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Chestnut Hill resident Nelson Diaz has chronicled his life in the autobiography “Not from Here, Not from There."
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by Len Lear
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9/29/22
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When Brendan Dwyer was four years old, his mom, Marianne, became the director of Teenagers, Inc., a nonprofit that aims to connect teens to the world through community service.
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by Len Lear
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9/22/22
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According to city statistics, Philadelphia hit 1,250 opioid overdose deaths last year – a situation that Jose Benitez, CEO of Prevention Point Philadelphia (PPP), knows all too well.
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by Len Lear
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9/22/22
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It is no secret that the pandemic has been particularly hard on restaurants and other food-related businesses.
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by Len Lear
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9/22/22
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Alphonso “Al” Lassiter, 72, has a perpetually smiling face that has brightened up the Chestnut Hill Weavers Way market at the cash register and around the store for the past 12 years.
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by Len Lear
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9/22/22
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The Rev. Robert Polk, a 94-year-old resident of the Cathedral Village Retirement Community in upper Roxborough, said there were almost no other Black residents when he moved there 20 years ago.
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by Len Lear
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9/22/22
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