SEPTA has proposed a fare increase that eliminates discounts for Key card users, potentially affecting thousands of riders.
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by Carla Robinson
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9/11/24
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SEPTA still has a $240 million budget deficit for this year alone.
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by Robert W. Previdi and Josephine Winter, Save the Train Coalition
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9/5/24
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If you want to know what a hospital means to a community, just consider the impact when one is suddenly closed.
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by Jeff Meade
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8/28/24
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In the face of a $240 million budget deficit, SEPTA announced that it plans to add trains to its regional rail service starting Sept. 8.
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by Carla Robinson
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8/28/24
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A group of residents has formed a new Registered Community Organization (RCO) covering all of Chestnut Hill, focusing on pedestrian safety and housing accessibility.
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by Tommy Tucker
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8/21/24
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Now, after decades of chronic underfunding, Pennsylvania public school students finally got a down payment on their future.
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by State Rep. Tarik Khan, Democrat, 194th District
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8/8/24
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SEPTA discussed a series of cost-cutting measures to address budget uncertainties at its board meeting on Thursday.
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8/1/24
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The Greylock estate has been deteriorating for at least two decades.
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7/25/24
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Residents of Northwest Philadelphia are bracing for potential cuts to regional rail and bus lines as SEPTA grapples with a state budget shortfall.
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by Carla Robinson
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7/17/24
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With a big flat roof on its new supermarket in Germantown, the Weavers Way grocery co-op is going solar.
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by Richard L. Stein
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7/11/24
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Help us grow our membership by sharing this message with your neighbors and asking them to become active members.
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7/11/24
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For more than a century, the regional rail lines that serve our Northwest neighborhoods have been an integral part of Chestnut Hill.
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by Carla Robinson
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6/14/24
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The May 4 Go Mt. Airy Gala will be celebrated inside the iconic Sedgwick Theater.
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5/2/24
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In 2019, Surera Ward's nephew seemed to break his cell phone on a regular basis. Thus a new business was born.
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by Len Lear
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5/2/24
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The Save the Train Coalition will host a multi-site concert May 16 along the Chestnut Hill West Line that the group hopes to save from SEPTA cuts.
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5/2/24
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The coalition of Northwest Philadelphia civic groups and organizations working to keep SEPTA’s regional train lines open wants to make them "cool" again.
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by Carla Robinson
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4/17/24
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Professional women’s tackle football is a relatively new phenomenon, and the Philadelphia Phantomz don't have it easy.
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by Len Lear
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4/4/24
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About 50 members of the Save the Train coalition from Northwest Philadelphia staged a traveling rally to Harrisburg.
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3/21/24
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Northwest Philadelphia’s Save the Train coalition of civic organizations is boarding a train to Harrisburg for its next rally on Monday, March 18.
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3/13/24
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The Chestnut Hill Conservancy will host a virtual lecture supporting the Save the Train campaign on Tuesday, March 12.
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3/7/24
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