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(From left to right) Keith Brown, Lee Roberts, Keith Pate, Joe Budd and Deidra Thomas take a break during an after-school session with students at the Men Who Care of Germantown headquarters.
Real men, real talk, real change in Germantown
Lee Roberts spent 25 years in the military, but when he returned from his stint in the Air Force to his old Philadelphia neighborhood, he couldn’t believe what he saw. more
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Jim (right) is seen here circa 1987 with siblings (from left) Bill, of Dallas, Texas; Susan Gillies Ladd, of Coatesville, and John, who lives in Switzerland.
Ex-Hiller, hero, star athlete, dies at 66
James Gillies, a former Chestnut Hill resident, died of heart failure at age 66 at St Luke’s Hospital in Allentown on March 26. more
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Participating site Historic Fair Hill is an arboretum and also has an orchard and native pollinator garden. (Inset: Participants log their visits in their Stamp Rally Passport, which includes maps, illustrations, and site highlights and activities.
Germantown Stamp Rally offers fresh air and local history
For the second year, the Historic Germantown Green Space Stamp Rally, a fun and educational program for all ages, returns to Northwest Philadelphia. more
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OMC students Grace Sprandio (seventh grade), Claudia Fisk and Cara Plover (eighth grade), and Johnny Matthew (fourth grade).
A Catholic surprise on the Hill
The news came around 1 p.m. last Thursday: white smoke from the Sistine Chapel. Leo XIV would ascend to the Catholic church’s helm as the new pope. more
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In the 4x400 relay, Penn Charter junior Michaela Polland (left) receives the baton from senior Alli DeLisi (center background) as Episcopal's Ava Cavanaugh gets the handoff from Ryann Newcomb (right). Polland and the Quakers won by a half second.
Area teams chase Episcopal at 2025 Inter-Ac Track Championships
The host school for last Saturday's Inter-Ac League Track and Field Championships, Episcopal Academy, celebrated the continued success of both its boys' and girls' teams. more
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Lew and Ginny Ashenfelter, who were married for 72 years, in front of their store, The Happy Butterfly, in 2014. The shop sold mostly children's clothing for 32 years at 8419 Germantown Ave.
Virginia Ashenfelter, co-owner of The Happy Butterfly, dies at 94
Virginia “Ginny” Ashenfelter died on April 22 at age 94 in the Complete Care at Harston Hall Nursing Home in Flourtown. more
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Rev. Chris & Les Garçons Crasseux draw inspiration from New Orleans-style music, a not-so-easily defined genre.
Local musicians channel New Orleans-style vibe
Christopher Marsceill, better known as Rev. Chris, was only 5 or 6 years old when he began taking group piano lessons. He was seen as the odd one out. more
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On a Haverford shot, the ball passes outside the stick of SCH sophomore goalie Moe Sobel and veers wide to the right of the cage.
SCH lacrosse has stepped up its game in the challenging Inter-Ac League
The last of the Inter-Ac League schools to begin playing boys' lacrosse, Springside Chestnut Hill Academy recently became competitive with the league’s long-established powers. more
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Mount St. Joseph junior Kaitlyn Cockerham is seen here hitting a single in the third inning. Next time up, she had a three-run home run.
Mount softball withstands late Villa rally for 10-8 league victory
After falling behind early in last Monday's Catholic Academies softball contest, Mount St. Joseph went ahead by four runs and then survived a rally by visiting Villa Maria. more
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The girls in the GFS JV quad turned in a convincing gold-medal effort in Sunday's final.
Area crews excel at Philadelphia City Championships on the Schuylkill
The "postseason" in crew began last weekend with the Philadelphia City Championships, and area rowers assembled along Kelly Drive to mine the Schuylkill for precious medals. more
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Thom Cardwell is seen with his younger sister, Janice Canfield, who told us that Cardwell wrote, choreographed, directed and acted in summer plays as a teenager. “We charged 20 cents to attend and donated the proceeds to cancer research.”
Germantown LGBT+ icon, film festivals creator, dies at 79
From 1982 to 2017 I wrote a weekly restaurant review column. It seemed almost every time we visited a Center City restaurant, we would see Thom Cardwell. more
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“Soil nerd” Allison Houghton will teach a Mt. Airy Learning Tree course, “Spring Foraging Fun in Mt. Airy.”
Mt. Airy ‘soil nerd’ helps you forage for edible plants
Want to expand your palate and save money on food? Mt. Airy's self-described “soil nerd,” Allison Houghton, can help you do that. more
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Nancy Williams told us this about Randy: “He had such a great sense of humor. He would laugh so hard that his shoulders would shake. We had similar values, and we had a great 56-year run.”
Beloved Hill architecture preservationist dies at 82
John Randolph Williams Jr., a bon vivant known for his prowess as a cook, competitive tennis player and builder of homes, died on April 9. more
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Peter Handler and Karen Singer with their collaborative "Coral Reef Table," depicting bleached and dying coral.
Germantown couple’s art meets activism at iMPeRFeCT Gallery
Plenty of kids doodle, draw and dabble in art, then drop those pursuits as they grow older. Karen Singer and Peter Handler never stopped.  more
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Members of the Germantown Friends youth jazz ensemble, (left to right) Zekie Lieberman, Jiaray Shi, Sam Desai and Zeke Hammarhead, say they are nervous but honored and excited to participate in the Germantown Jazz Festival.
GFS youth ensemble introduces new generation to jazz
The upcoming Germantown Jazz Festival — scheduled for April 25-27 — aims to celebrate the art form embedded in the culture of the historic neighborhood for decades. more
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Cellist Ronald Lipscomb (left), who lived in both Mt. Airy and Germantown, had a remarkable career, playing with the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein, the American Symphony under Leopold Stokowski and with an orchestra conducted by Duke Ellington.
Mt. Airy cellist played with Bernstein, Ellington, Casals
Not too many local musicians have memories of playing with two legendary American innovators and composers, but Ron Lipscomb performed with the best. more
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Mt. Airy author Lynn Gregory, with her cat Skeeter, will appear at booked, 8511 Germantown Ave. on Saturday, April 19, at 11 a.m., to discuss her just-released third historical novel, “You've Found Her.”
Three post-career novels for Mt. Airy author at booked
Mt. Airy author Lynn Gregory will appear at booked, 8511 Germantown Ave. on Saturday, April 19, 11 a.m., to discuss her third historical novel, “You've Found Her.” more
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Olivia Gendron and Brian Scott Campbell portray grieving parents in playwright David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play ‘Rabbit Hole,’ running through April 27 at The Stagecrafters Theater.
Stagecrafters Theater delivers haunting portrait of grief
Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire is best known for audacious, quirky humor. He did an about-face with "Rabbit Hole," winner of the Pulitzer Prize. more
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Jean-Louis Trintignant and Anouk Aimée star as a couple navigating love and grief in Claude Lelouch's visually daring classic "A Man and a Woman." In the 1966 film, part of the French New Wave movement, director Claude Lelouche uses an array of shooting styles and film - color, black and white, 35 mm and Super 8 - to tell the story of a widow and widower who meet and fall in love.
Life, love and cinema collide in ‘A Man and a Woman’
In its broadest strokes, the film, which screens at Woodmere on April 22, is fairly straightforward. But it's one of the most visually compelling movies of the 1960s. more
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Sylvie Harrington, a GA junior, clears the second hurdle on her way to a win in the 300-meter hurdles.
GA, SCH girls start Inter-Ac League track season at Notre Dame
Track teams from Germantown Academy and Springside Chestnut Hill Academy traveled to the Academy of Notre Dame for the first girls' meet of the 2025 season. more
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