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Fairmount Bark provides boarding for a night or a week or two; day care, including day care home visits by staff members; bathing; and all grooming services except for hair cutting.
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by Len Lear
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7/7/21
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Cynthia Fillmor began working at Windfall Gallery in 2007, then took over the business from Kaye Baluarte when she retired in January of 2014. Baluarte had opened Windfall in 1984.
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by Len Lear
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6/23/21
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Malelani Café is a charming BYOB restaurant, café and music venue that has been doing business at 6734 Germantown Ave. in Mt. Airy since 2014.
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by Caryl Johnston
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6/17/21
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Most readers of this newspaper are surely familiar with the name Albany, the capital of New York State, but most are probably not familiar with the name Michael Albany, a long-time Mt. Airy professional photographer with a seemingly endless list of business clients.
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by Len Lear
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6/10/21
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Philadelphia has backyard gardens and open park space or lots across most neighborhoods, and relatively low use of pesticides, making it a relatively friendly habitat for honeybees.
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by Walt Maguire
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6/4/21
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Beer making is generally thought of as a male enterprise, but as with many other industries and professions, that has been slowly changing.
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by Len Lear
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6/3/21
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Here is a riddle: Who has the nerve to open a dance studio in the middle of a pandemic? Answer: Lydia Robinson, a Mt. Airy resident for the past 20 years.
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by Len Lear
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5/27/21
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I pulled up to Caspian Grille in Lafayette Hill, hungry and anticipating a homemade chicken gyro.
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by Judy Rubin
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5/20/21
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They say that behind every successful man there is a woman. In this story, there is a woman behind every successful cheese.
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by Stacia Friedman
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5/13/21
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The Mt. Airy Taproom opened on Friday the 13th (isn't that bad luck?) of September, 2019. It was doing a solid business with the Mt. Airy crowd until the pandemic struck six months after its debut.
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by Len Lear
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4/21/21
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Attic Brewing Company has not only not laid anyone off, but they have doubled the size of their team and partnered with over a dozen local organizations and donated more than $14,000 to Germantown non-profits last year.
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by Len Lear
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4/7/21
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I have a feeling that when the pandemic is over, one of the most popular gathering places in Northwest Philly will be Young American Hard Cider, which opened last November at 6350 Germantown Ave. (at Duval), close to the border dividing Germantown from Mt. Airy.
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by Len Lear
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3/24/21
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Tim Huenke has been building and repairing guitars at his Fort Washington business, Superior Guitars, for all those years, but during the pandemic, unlike most businesspeople, he has been busier by far than ever before.
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by Len Lear
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3/10/21
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Not too many businesses can say that their sales in December, 2020, when the pandemic was spiraling out of control, were twice as high as they were in December, 2019, four months before the pandemic had even begun.
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by Len Lear
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2/26/21
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In an age of dot.com startups, why would any enterprising young man launch a labor-intensive bread company in a market with no shortage of competition?
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by Stacia Friedman
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2/11/21
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It is not often that world-class athletes open a sports-oriented business in our neighborhood, but that's what happened the first week of January when Alaa El-Idrissi and his wife Kristin opened the El-Idrissi Judo and Martial Arts Studio.
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by Len Lear
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2/5/21
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Catering by Design has lost over 700 bookings since the pandemic began last March. “I’ve wanted to open a taqueria for about 10 years now,” said chef Roth Perelman last week, “but if it wasn’t for the pandemic, I wouldn’t have been able to do it.”
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by Len Lear
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1/27/21
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The pandemic had a devastating effect on almost every independently owned business in the Chestnut Hill area, but imagine if you have a business that depends on weddings, store openings and other celebratory events.
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by Len Lear
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1/13/21
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Dr. Emiliano Tatar is one medical doctor who does not mind being called cheesy.
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By Len Lear
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1/6/21
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While almost every small business you can think of has been suffering during the pandemic if it is even still in business, Rahanna Gray's unusual business, Stylish Pooch, is thriving beyond all of her expectations.
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By Len Lear
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12/28/20
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