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On Friday, Jan. 7, Chestnut Hill Hospital Nursing Director Julie Munger walked into work wearing her favorite gray Adidas sneakers. Her workday proceeded like most others until she received a phone …
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1/20/22
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We resolve to eat less food and to exercise, and we resolve to make better meal choices. We resolve to cook with healthier ingredients, and we resolve to make grocery lists that we stick to.
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by April Lisante
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1/20/22
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Both Chestnut Hill and Mt. Airy experienced some unusual crime this week, with an overnight burglary at Baker Street Bread and El Poquito Sunday that left the contents of a broken cash register …
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Based on a true story, Chestnut Hill author Alfred O'Neill Jr. has just written “…an intriguing crime story packed with shady characters, double-dealing and violence … Alby and …
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by Len Lear
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1/14/22
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“It’s the attitude of that medical professor that inspired me to do what I do,” von Seldeneck said. “That notion, that women can’t be successful business people and successful mothers simultaneously, has been proven wrong time and time again. But that doesn’t stop people’s unconscious biases.”
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by Len Lear
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1/14/22
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And the damage is not limited to forested areas on city-owned land.
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By Emily Schricker, Conservation and Easements Manager, Chestnut Hill Conservancy
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1/14/22
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Now I am not 2,000 years old, although my right hip feels like it in the morning. But I am almost 82, which in dog years is 574, so I am definitely on my way.
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by Len Lear
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1/14/22
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The proposed map has also raised the eyebrows of many Chestnut Hillers, more than 300 of which have signed a petition to keep Chestnut Hill and Mt. Airy intact.
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by Tom Beck
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1/13/22
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The financially ailing Berks County-based health system has been trying to sell the local community hospital since the fall of 2020.
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by Carla Robinson and Stacia Friedman
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1/13/22
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“I had a tough emotional childhood,” she said, “and I have been in therapy for many years. Other kids seemed to have more emotional and social well-being than I did.”
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by Len Lear
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1/13/22
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Wyndmoor professor and author Sam Apple discovered an astonishing story that had not previously been widely told and proceeded to write a remarkably compelling book about it.
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by Len Lear
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1/13/22
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The model, actress, writer, filmmaker and president of On Demand Models, LLC, has a world of personal experience, both good and bad, with online dating.
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by Len Lear
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1/13/22
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Aleah Welsh and her writing partner Carly Garber have written upcoming episode 17 of “The Goldbergs,” an ABC-TV sitcom created by Jenkintown native Adam Goldberg.
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by Len Lear
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1/6/22
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This year, volunteers are hoping to raise enough funds to replace outdated and broken lights and missing signage around the Water Tower, and to refurbish the WWII War Memorial.
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1/6/22
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In the wake of three attempted robberies along Germantown Avenue in the past month, two of which were successful, some business owners at both the top and bottom of the hill say they feel wary about …
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by Tom Beck
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1/6/22
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The complaint states that at least 25 minors were tricked into performing sex acts online, including some students at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy.
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by Carla Robinson
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1/6/22
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Unfortunately, last Saturday the weather did not cooperate again, resulting in the cancellation of our much anticipated holiday parade.
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1/5/22
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Doug Wechsler, who has written 24 previous books about nature and the animal world and has taken most of the photos in them, specializes in researching information that is not widely known to the public.
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by Len Lear
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1/5/22
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Covid’s Omicron variant is spreading rapidly throughout Philadelphia, pushing the number of people hospitalized with the virus from 368 to 949 in the space of four weeks.
At Chestnut …
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by Tom Beck and Carla Robinson
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1/5/22
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Chestnut Hill resident Miles Orvell may be more intrigued by urban ruins than any other subject.
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by Len Lear
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12/31/21
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