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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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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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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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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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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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As they looked to head into the PIAA District 1 tennis tournament, Mount St. Joseph Academy tennis players prepared by facing some tough competition on Sept. 23.
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by Tom Utescher
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10/1/26
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Chestnut Hill artist Claudia Rilling always wanted to be an artist, even as a child growing up in Bucks County, but she had no idea how to make that happen.
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by Len Lear
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10/1/26
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Charlie Chaplin’s “Modern Times,” released in 1936, feels startlingly modern. Ninety years after the film first flickered onto the big screens, we are still reckoning with our relationship to the machine.
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by Heather Gray
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9/24/26
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On the tennis courts at Germantown Academy, the host Patriots and the visiting Blue Devils of Springside Chestnut Hill Academy made their 2026 Inter-Ac League debut last week.
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by Tom Utescher
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9/24/26
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Like many Philadelphians, Wissahickon resident Michelle Ritondo first visited the Academy of Natural Sciences on a school field trip.
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by Abby Weiss
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9/23/26
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Joseph M. “Joe” Ascenzi, 71, former owner of Laurel Hill Gardens, a garden center and landscape company in Chestnut Hill, for 44 years until his retirement in 2025, passed away peacefully on Aug. 29.
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by Len Lear
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9/17/26
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Joseph M. "Joe" Ascenzi, 71, of Abington, PA, passed away peacefully on Saturday, August 29 th . from Parkinson’s Disease.
Joe was born in Philadelphia and raised in Ardsley, PA. …
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9/16/26
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Two area field hockey teams were put on display on Sept. 1 as Mount St. Joseph Academy took the short trip to Germantown Academy for an early season stick session.
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by Tom Utescher
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9/10/26
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Soccer fans from Germantown Academy and Mount St. Joseph braved hot, sticky conditions on Sept. 1 to see their teams in action and get a preview of the upcoming season.
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by Tom Utescher
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9/10/26
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On 1.7 acres of land in Roxborough, next to The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Owen Taylor spends his days growing and harvesting seeds from more than 230 types of plants.
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by Maggie Dougherty
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9/10/26
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A lawsuit filed by a Mt. Airy resident against the School District of Philadelphia is now scheduled for trial in July of 2027.
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by Abby Weiss
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9/9/26
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One of the unlikely stars in WDAS history is journalist and author Wynne Alexander, who has been a champion for many decades of causes important to the Black community and social justice activists.
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by Len Lear
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9/3/26
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Two of the best volleyball teams in the Inter-Ac League, Springside Chestnut Hill Academy and Germantown Academy, took a jaunt to Hatboro Horsham High School on Aug. 27.
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by Tom Utescher
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9/3/26
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This week in Chestnut Hill Local history
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8/27/26
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