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CHC alum Cassie Spratt handles the ball for Team Cyber Pink, guarded by recent Upper Dublin High School grad Amy Ngo.
Alumni team with CHC, PC grads retains College Summer League title
The wily veterans prevailed once again as the Philadelphia/Suburban Women's Summer Basketball League wrapped up its 30th season. more
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Incoming CHC freshman Tikyra Miller makes a determined drive toward the basket.
30th season begins for college summer hoops league
The Philadelphia/Suburban Women's Summer Basketball League launched its 30th season on June 11. more
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A young girl stands in front a vacant building in Mount Airy.
Northwest’s Safe Steps program to begin street cleaning
A program to reduce gun violence by providing free street cleaning will begin operating in Mt. Airy and Germantown in June. more
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Cresheim Village Neighbors spotlights extraordinary locals
The Cresheim Village Neighbors met May 2 via Zoom to learn about three residents with extraordinary careers. more
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Under new federal regulations, the Philadelphia Water Department will need to remove all its estimated 20,000 lead service lines within 10 years. Finding, excavating and replacing them may cost half a billion dollars.
EPA to Philadelphia: Get the lead out
Across the country, civil engineers and water experts are bracing for new requirements regarding the nation's remaining lead pipes. more
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Cosmos and salvia dance against a tapestry of color in Syd Carpenter's Mt. Airy garden.
What's behind the garden wall? A new book tells all
Nicole Juday grew up on a farm, where she never laid eyes on a carefully curated landscape. Then she paid a visit to Morris Arboretum. more
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Rabbi Bernstein developed curricula for students and teachers, organized conferences, and wrote scholarly articles and books to spread the gospel of the love of nature.
‘Keeper of the earth’ rabbi dies at 70
Rabbi Ellen Bernstein, of the Germantown Jewish Centre in West Mt. Airy, founded the nation’s first national Jewish environmental organization. more
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The Wissahickon Creek, flowing through the Penllyn Natural Area in Montgomery County near the Green Ribbon Trail.
Beneath the beauty, a need for loving care
That’s the impression many people have as they stroll the forested trails that run alongside this shallow, meandering waterway. But dive deeper. more
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A mountain biker navigates a rock-strewn trail.
So many ways to enjoy the park
The Wissahickon offers countless opportunities for outdoor recreational activities like birding, hiking, trail biking, horseback riding and rock climbing. more
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Apiary Studio, a landscape architecture and design firm based in Germantown, was among the award winners at the Philadelphia Flower Show. It won a gold medal for its “Right of Way” exhibit.
NW scores wins in Flower Show
Germantown's Apiary Studio and Chestnut Hill's Robertson’s Flowers & Events were among the award winners at the Philadelphia Flower Show. more
Roxborough-Manayunk resident Alissa Abba will be selling her wares at the Flower Show’s Makers Market this weekend. Abba’s products are a fixture at Chestnut Hill shops and shows including Clover Market and the Home & Garden fair.
Local plant enthusiasts help the Flower Show bloom
No surprise that when the Philadelphia Flower Show opens on Saturday, Northwest Philadelphia will be well represented. more
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Water sports are a staple of camps in the summer.
Summer brings a lifetime of camper memories
Just about every movie ever made about summer sleepaway camp includes a scene with tears. Somehow, though, things always seem to work out. more
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Ted Daeschler searches for fossils that are millions of years old.
Hill scientist behind 350-million-year-old fossil exhibit
Whoever first used the term “old school” might have been thinking about Edward “Ted” Daeschler of the Academy of Natural Sciences. more
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Gino Segre and Bettina Hoerlin, Chestnut Hill residents for 24 years and Mt. Airy residents for 20 years before that, are the co-authors of “The Pope of Physics; Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age” (Henry Holt & Co., publisher), about a top associate to J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Oppenheimer colleague is subject of Hill authors’ book, 'Pope of Physics'
The film “Oppenheimer” has become a box office juggernaut. His right-hand man, Nobel winner Enrico Fermi, is also worthy of the spotlight. more
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Members of the inauguration platform party included (from left to right) Sister Matthew Anita MacDonald; Wallace Weaver, representing State Senator Art Haywood; former president Sister Carol Jean Vale, Ph.D.; new president William W. Latimer, Ph.D., M.P.H.; Qiana Brown, Ph.D., M.S.W., M.P.H.; and Catherine Lockyer Moulton, chair of the college's board of directors.
Chestnut Hill College inaugurates first lay president
Chestnut Hill College celebrated the inauguration of its seventh president, William Latimer, as the first lay president in the school’s nearly 99-year history. more
Three former Chestnut Hill College players performed with College Summer League champion Team Pink last week: (from left) Cassie Sebold, Abbey Spratt, Lauren Crim. Photo by Tom Utescher
Chestnut Hill grads help Team Pink retain summer league crown
In the league finals last Tuesday, fifth-seeded Team Pink handed a 65-56 defeat to Team Sky Blue, made up of athletes from Holy Family University. more
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John O’Donnell with his beloved dog, Gigi.
Local historian, author and record runner dies at 77
John M. O'Donnell, long-time Chestnut Hill resident and former executive director of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, died after a sudden illness. more
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Cassie Murphy (right) of Team Black (Jefferson U.) wrestles for the ball with Royal Blue's Emma Pyne.
CHC, Jefferson women win as summer league gets underway
The Philadelphia/Suburban Women's Summer Basketball League staged its first two nights of competition for 2023 last Tuesday and Thursday. more
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Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr., Ph.D, one of the nation's leading historians of African American music, will offer his multimedia presentation on that subject June 23 and 24, 7 p.m., at Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion.
Leading historian on Black music at Maxwell Mansion
How can anyone condense the 400-year history of African American music into two hours or less? Germantown resident Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr., Ph.D, plans to do just that. more
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Tommy Bergstrom
Seven candidates for seven seats in 2023 CHCA board election
This year the Chestnut Hill Community Association has seven board seats open and received seven nominations. more
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