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More than 600 people crowded into St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Chestnut Hill on Friday, July 15, for a memorial service to say goodbye to Wendy Romig Concannon, a mother, wife, sister, artist, …
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by Len Lear
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7/28/22
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Most of us would consider owning and operating a restaurant that is open seven days a week for lunch and dinner an exhausting full-time job.
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by Len Lear
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7/28/22
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Fred Donaldson, a fearless newspaper reporter, editor and beloved religious leader who served as president of the Beth Tikvah B'nai Jeshurun synagogue in Erdenheim, died May 31 of coronary artery disease while on a cruise in Ocean Cay, Bahamas.
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by Len Lear
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7/20/22
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Lots of people enjoy Wissahickon Park and visit it often, but James Charnock is probably more enthusiastic than any other user of the park that traverses parts of Chestnut Hill and Mt. Airy.
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by Len Lear
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7/14/22
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Now that the warmer weather is here to stay for a few months, it is a perfect time to go outside with the whole family.
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by Len Lear
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7/14/22
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"NBC Nightly News" reports on Good Samaritan barber in Germantown.
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by Len Lear
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7/7/22
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Dr. Frederick Simeone, who created one of the world's most outstanding collections of classic sports cars, died Saturday, June 11, at Pennsylvania Hospital, where he had been a surgical legend. He was 86.
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by Len Lear
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6/30/22
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Chestnut Hill resident Noah Raven, whose last name already suggests a proclivity to help preserve wildlife, has started an initiative to save monarch butterflies.
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by Len Lear
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6/30/22
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You could say that the mission of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Whitemarsh, one of the oldest in the nation at 324 years old, is saving a lot more than souls.
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by Len Lear
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6/30/22
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According to clinical psychologist Alyson Nerenberg, an addictions and relationship expert who has long had an office in Chestnut Hill, many of us enter into relationships with unrealistic expectations - which can lead to crushing disappointment.
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by Len Lear
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6/30/22
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In the mid-1960s, when I was a graduate student in English Literature at Temple University, I met a communications professor there named Herb Simons.
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by Len Lear
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6/23/22
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Are you like me and almost everyone else on earth, and completely befuddled by this thing called cryptocurrency?
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by Len Lear
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6/23/22
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Lafayette Hill resident Richard Lyntton's life would make a pretty good movie. He’s been a captain and a tank commander in the British military, observed and documented war crimes in Bosnia, been abducted by Serbs in Sarajevo and written several books.
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by Len Lear
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6/23/22
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You might not think that a book about walking would be a page-turner, but a new book proves that any subject can be fascinating if it is told in a compelling way.
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by Len Lear
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6/21/22
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No one ever wants to hear the word “cancer” from their doctor. But that diagnosis is not as terrifying now as it once was, thanks to researchers like Chestnut Hill resident Dr. Elizabeth Plimack, newly appointed deputy director at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Northeast Philadelphia.
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by Len Lear
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6/16/22
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Dr. Harold Stenger was a legendary teacher of Shakespeare plays.
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by Len Lear
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6/16/22
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Dr. Douglas Arthur Canning, a Chestnut Hill resident for 30 years, beloved chief of the Division of Urology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, devoted family man and lover of the outdoors, died at age 65 on Monday, May 30, after suffering severe injuries from a bicycle accident on a road in Connecticut.
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by Len Lear
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6/16/22
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Nicolas Troyano is on a mission to remove the invasive ivy that is strangling so many huge trees in Chestnut Hill.
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by Len Lear
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6/9/22
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Jeannine Mermet, a multi-talented, strong, self-reliant businesswomen and professional singer and dancer long before the word “feminism” was commonly used, died at the age of 93 on May 17, surrounded by her loving family.
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by Len Lear
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6/9/22
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The owners of Earth, Bread + Brewery will be closing the once-beehive-busy brewpub on July 1, just before its 14th anniversary.
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by Len Lear
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6/9/22
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