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Vendors lined Germantown Avenue on Sunday for the Chestnut Hill Home & Garden Festival, with throngs of visitors taking in the sights, sounds and smells.
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5/7/26
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Rain is more likely to disrupt tennis matches than other spring sports contests, so it was lucky that the April 29 match at Germantown Academy wrapped up about 20 minutes before a round of evening showers set in.
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by Tom Utescher
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5/7/26
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The following is for crimes reported from April 26 to May 2.
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5/7/26
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As a nationally recognized expert on patient advocacy, Betty Long has testified before Congress. So she’s familiar with the arena. Yet even with her experience, politics leaves her, to use her word, “flummoxed.”
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by Robert Calandra
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5/7/26
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William James famously described the world of very young children as “one great blooming, buzzing confusion.” You experience similar feelings of puzzlement and awe when you watch the …
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5/7/26
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In the Inter-Ac League softball game at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy on April 28, the outcome was essentially decided once the host Blue Devils scored four runs in the bottom of the first …
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by Tom Utescher
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5/7/26
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To submit a photo, email: editor@chestnuthilllocal.com.
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5/7/26
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Clifford Charles Randolph Hood, recently of Wyndmoor, died on March 30 th , 2026. He was the former president of C.C.R. Hood & Company, Inc., an advertising and public relations firm for 40 …
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5/6/26
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Two weeks before the May 19 primary election, the Local invited the candidates running for Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional District to answer questions submitted by Northwest Philadelphia organizations.
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5/6/26
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Two weeks before the May 19 primary election, the Local invited the candidates running for Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional District to answer questions submitted by Northwest Philadelphia organizations.
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5/6/26
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Two weeks before the May 19 primary election, the Local invited the candidates running for Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional District to answer questions submitted by Northwest Philadelphia organizations.
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5/6/26
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The Philadelphia Board of Education voted 6-3 last Thursday to approve Superintendent Tony B. Watlington Sr.’s $3 billion plan to close 17 schools, including some in Northwest Philadelphia.
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by Abby Weiss
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5/6/26
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Two weeks before the May 19 primary election, the Local invited the candidates running for Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional District to answer questions submitted by Northwest Philadelphia organizations.
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by Tommy Tucker and Maggie Dougherty
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5/6/26
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Two weeks before the May 19 primary election, the Local invited the candidates running for Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional District to answer questions submitted by Northwest Philadelphia organizations.
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5/6/26
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5/6/26
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5/1/26
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The family of Rebecca Alyn Bixby shares that she died March 27, 2026, after a tenacious four year journey with metastatic colon cancer.
Born in Abington, PA, on August 12, 1981, Rebecca leaves …
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4/30/26
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Victor Santantonio, 86, formerly of Chestnut Hill, PA, passed away suddenly on April 15, 2026, after a brief illness in Chestnut Hill Hospital. He was surrounded by family and friends, both present …
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4/30/26
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In an Inter-Ac League girls’ lacrosse contest on April 9, Penn Charter breezed past the Irish of the Academy of Notre Dame, 16-6.
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by Tom Utescher
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4/30/26
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Seventh grade students from Norwood-Fontbonne Academy (NFA) in Chestnut Hill handed advocacy letters about food insecurity to state Rep. Tarik Khan on April 22.
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4/30/26
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