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I have met many unforgettable people in my almost 60 years as a journalist, but Marvin and Cyndia Burak are right at the top of the list.
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by Len Lear
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4/9/26
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Ace Shoe Repair's owner, Willie Alston, is a longtime veteran of the business, having been in it for 55 years.
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by Len Lear
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4/9/26
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David Contosta has done it again. Contosta, 81, a longtime professor at Chestnut Hill College, has written his 27th book.
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by Len Lear
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4/2/26
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The exhibit of Pragya Gupta’s work, “The Places We Carry: A Search for Identity,” will be on display through April 28 at Asbury Arboretum's Cope House.
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by Len Lear
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4/2/26
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On Nov. 26, the day before Thanksgiving, I had a seven-hour, open-heart, triple-bypass surgery.
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by Len Lear
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3/26/26
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Thomas J. Walsh, a lifelong Chestnut Hill resident who was able to brighten up the day of anyone with whom he came into contact, died peacefully of natural causes on Feb. 21.
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by Len Lear
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3/26/26
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Benjamin D’Annibale, the supremely talented former keyboardist for Chestnut Hill Presbyterian Church, and local opera singer Sophia Santiago will perform in concert the music of Franz Schubert on March 29.
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by Len Lear
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3/26/26
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Tom DiNardo grew up in Germantown, went to Germantown Friends School and later became one of the region’s most prolific music writers.
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by Len Lear
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3/26/26
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One of the most memorable people in our community is Michele Haines, 83, the beret-wearing native of France and civil rights activist who founded Spring Mill Cafe 48 years ago.
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by Len Lear
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3/19/26
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New Era Indian Cuisine at 219 E. Willow Grove Ave. in Chestnut Hill gives new meaning to the word unpretentious.
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by Len Lear
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1/15/26
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Tony DePaul, who was born in Chestnut Hill and still lives here today, has to be one of the most prolific authors in the community.
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by Len Lear
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12/4/25
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When Germantown native John Fabian Witt graduated from Germantown Friends School (GFS) in 1990, no one could have predicted that he would go on to become a Yale University professor and Pulitzer Prize finalist.
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by Len Lear
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11/26/25
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The work of lifelong Germantown resident Robin Williams-Turnage is on exhibit at Allens Lane Art Center through Dec. 6 and will leave an indelible impression on anyone who is attracted to clay pottery, particularly those who have an affinity for art with an African aesthetic.
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by Len Lear
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11/26/25
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Mindy Maslin and Sidney Ozer, a Germantown couple, started the nonprofit, Welcoming Homes, an all–volunteer organization, earlier this year along with a friend, Judi Bernstein-Baker.
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by Len Lear
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11/26/25
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A former longtime Chestnut Hill resident, Peter N. Walsh, M.D. and Ph.D, with an international reputation as a scientific investigator, mentor and physician whose pioneering research transformed the medical community’s understanding of thrombosis and hemostasis, died peacefully Sept. 25 at the age of 90 of age–related ailments.
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by Len Lear
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11/26/25
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Many parents and their children insist they are growing together in body, mind and spirit, but few, I would bet, are doing it by learning self–defense with an appealing father–daughter team who are themselves a model of family spirit.
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by Len Lear
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11/26/25
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Paula Fingerut may be decades older than the kids she serves every day, but the self—described “senior citizen” in the candy store still gets excited in the mornings when she opens Zipf’s sweet shop founded 57 years ago in Chestnut Hill.
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by Len Lear
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11/26/25
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His name may not be as well known as Steven Spielberg, but David Greenberg, an award-winning filmmaker who has lived in Chestnut Hill for 35 years (and Mt. Airy and Germantown before that), is not exactly a film neophyte.
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by Len Lear
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11/20/25
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A powerful, compelling exhibit of paintings by Wyndmoor artist Frances Gilmore, at Mt. Airy Art Garage (MAAG) through the end of November, is almost impossible to erase from one’s consciousness long after viewing them.
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by Len Lear
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11/20/25
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David Edwin Loder, of Flourtown, an advocate of humanitarian (and animal) causes, as well as a successful attorney and supporter of many local educational and cultural institutions, passed away peacefully on Oct. 23 at the age of 71.
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by Len Lear
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11/20/25
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