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His neighbors probably do not know it, but Stephen C. Kelly, 79, who has lived in Mt. Airy for 50 years, was once a recording and performing star.
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by Len Lear
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2/19/23
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After a lifetime of working in technology, with travel that took him all over Asia, James Whipple Miller started an improbable new career after settling in Chestnut Hill eight years ago. He founded a publishing company.
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by Len Lear
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2/9/23
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The palliative care unit at Chestnut Hill Hospital will soon have a new name: the Susan Bray Palliative Care unit.
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by Len Lear
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2/9/23
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Chestnut Hill resident Susan Jacobson, recently selected by Gov. Josh Shapiro to be a member of his transition team, may well have done more than most to help Philadelphia recover from the pandemic.
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by Len Lear
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2/9/23
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In girls' basketball, Springside Chestnut Hill Academy took a break from tough Inter-Ac League competition last Monday, hosting a non-league contest.
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by Tom Utescher
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2/9/23
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Last Tuesday at Penn Charter, the Quaker girls took on what was very likely the last team that could prevent them from making an undefeated run through the Inter-Ac League.
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by Tom Utescher
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2/9/23
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Historically, Mount St. Joseph Academy has won the great majority of basketball games it has played against Villa Joseph Marie. They did it again.
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by Tom Utescher
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2/9/23
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Late last week, Penn Charter was pretty much assured of making an undefeated run to its second straight championship in girls' basketball. However, on Friday night there was a pitched battle for second place.
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by Tom Utescher
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2/9/23
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The soon-to-retire WIP personality and Chestnut Hill resident just assumes things will always go wrong: “I'm by nature negative and nervous.” But he's picking the Eagles.
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by Tom Beck
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2/8/23
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At 94 years old, the Rev. Robert L. Polk – who recently published his third book – has always been a pioneer.
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by Len Lear
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2/2/23
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Mount St. Joseph Academy's swim team raised its record to 3-0 last Wednesday in Athletic Association of Catholic Academies dual meets.
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by Tom Utescher
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2/1/23
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For their second meeting on the ice this season, the Springside Chestnut Hill Academy and Germantown Academy hockey teams took a trip up Route 309.
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by Tom Utescher
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2/1/23
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In their last home dual meet in the Inter-Ac League this winter, the Blue Devils of Springside Chestnut Hill Academy lost to the Quakers of Penn Charter.
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by Tom Utescher
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2/1/23
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After upsetting nationally ranked Jefferson University last Wednesday, the Chestnut Hill College women survived an uncomfortably close fourth quarter against Caldwell (N.J.) University.
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by Tom Utescher
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2/1/23
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Joanne Dhody, a third-generation resident of Chestnut Hill and a beloved volunteer who never met a worthy cause she would not help, is stepping down as a library volunteer after 27 years.
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by Len Lear
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1/27/23
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Salon owner Maryam Lavasani is hosting a life-sized sculpture of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old whose death at the hands of Iranian "morality police" has sparked worldwide protest.
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by Len Lear
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1/26/23
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In last Thursday's Athletic Association of Catholic Academies basketball bout, host Mount St. Joseph Academy fell to Villa Maria, 56-50.
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by Tom Utescher
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1/26/23
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The Germantown Friends girls traveled to Bucks County last Tuesday to take on a George School hoops squad that is aiming to move up out of the middle of the pack in the Friends Schools League.
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by Tom Utescher
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1/26/23
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Just past mid-January, nothing was set in stone yet in the quest for the girls' basketball championship in the Inter-Ac League, but last Friday, Penn Charter made a big step towards retaining its title.
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by Tom Utescher
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1/26/23
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Bob Harrington may well be the proudest of his most recent achievement – winning the the Federal Aviation Administration’s Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award.
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by Len Lear
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1/19/23
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