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The girls’ soccer team at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy continued its remarkable display of defense last Friday, defeating the visiting Germantown Academy Patriots, 2-0.
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by Tom Utescher
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10/15/26
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This week in Chestnut Hill Local history
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10/15/26
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“My purple silk pantsuit was covered in blood — my husband’s blood,” Byers’ wife Laurada wrote in her recently published memoir “Laurada - My Life of Adventure, Tragedy, and Purpose.”
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by Len Lear
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10/15/26
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When it was released in 1955, “The Night of the Hunter,” which will play at Woodmere’s Smith Hall on Tuesday, Oct. 20, was rejected by critics and audiences alike.
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by Will Standish
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10/15/26
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Thelonious Sphere Monk (1917-1982) is a name that may not be familiar to some non-jazz buffs, but there was no musician quite like him.
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by Len Lear
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10/15/26
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The following is for crimes reported from Oct. 4 to Oct. 11.
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10/15/26
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Being a traditionalist, a historian and a preservationist, my life and work has been shaped by historic architecture and all that it contributes to how we experience our surroundings.
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by Patricia Cove
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10/15/26
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Emi Wong Shing, a senior at Germantown Friends School, has been named the 2026-2027 Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate, and she is making it look easy.
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by Gregory C. Jackson
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10/15/26
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Springside Chestnut Hill (SCH) Academy understands cellphones aren’t inherently bad, but doesn’t want them in its classrooms.
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by Gregory C. Jackson
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10/15/26
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The Friends of the Cresheim Trail (FOCT) is hosting a festival at the end of the month to celebrate a new trail in the works.
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by Abby Weiss
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10/15/26
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Richard L. Mandel, of Philadelphia, a progressive educator who led The Miquon School and Friends Select School, died surrounded by family on Monday, October 5, 2026. He was 84.
An educator and …
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10/9/26
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“Witch” (2018) by Jen Silverman has no witches, but you do meet a string of memorable characters.
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by Hugh Hunter
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10/8/26
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What story about Northwest Philadelphia could you tell in five minutes and 10 images?
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by Chrissy Clawson, Director of Programs and Communications, Chestnut Hill Conservancy
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10/8/26
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Longtime Germantown resident and native Tom Di Nardo, 89, who went to Germantown Friends School and later became one of the region’s most prolific music writers, passed away on Sept. 19.
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by Len Lear
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10/8/26
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Who would have thought a film about baseball’s blackest mark could be so compelling?
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by Baird Standish
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10/8/26
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Life coach Jennifer Schelter, one of the area’s most prominent proponents of yoga, will be undertaking a new adventure at the Philadelphia Zoo.
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by Len Lear
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10/8/26
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The following is for crimes reported from Sept. 28 to Oct. 4.
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10/8/26
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Not every pop song is popcorn fluff about “moon, June, spoon.”
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by Len Lear
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10/8/26
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What a difference a year makes. This week marks one year since the Chestnut Hill Community Association stepped in to manage the Chestnut Hill Local and issued an emergency appeal to keep the paper afloat.
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10/8/26
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Weavers Way Co-op has switched the electricity and natural gas services for all its stores to The Energy Co-op, a local, member-owned nonprofit.
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10/8/26
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