Host Agnes Irwin led 3-1 at halftime in last Friday's Inter-Ac League soccer game, and as the second period wound down it looked like the Owls would coast to victory over Germantown Academy.
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by Tom Utescher
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9/28/22
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George Drakopoulos’s Malelani Cafe, located at the corner of Germantown Avenue and Pelham Road, was broken into last Sunday for the second time in about a month.
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by Tom Beck
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9/28/22
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When Brendan Dwyer was four years old, his mom, Marianne, became the director of Teenagers, Inc., a nonprofit that aims to connect teens to the world through community service.
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by Len Lear
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9/22/22
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According to city statistics, Philadelphia hit 1,250 opioid overdose deaths last year – a situation that Jose Benitez, CEO of Prevention Point Philadelphia (PPP), knows all too well.
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by Len Lear
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9/22/22
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It is no secret that the pandemic has been particularly hard on restaurants and other food-related businesses.
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by Len Lear
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9/22/22
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In their heyday, the “soaps,” those once ubiquitous daytime series, offered a steady paycheck for people in the film and television industry.
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by Stacia Friedman
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9/22/22
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Chestnut Hill furniture showrooms are as diverse as homeowners’ lifestyles.
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by Stacia Friedman
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9/22/22
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Alphonso “Al” Lassiter, 72, has a perpetually smiling face that has brightened up the Chestnut Hill Weavers Way market at the cash register and around the store for the past 12 years.
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by Len Lear
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9/22/22
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Linda Chicchi has already sold a dozen of the 32 paintings at her solo show at Center on the Hill, the activity center for seniors located in the Presbyterian Church on Germantown Avenue.
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by Stacia Friedman
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9/22/22
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After overcoming Shipley School and George School in preseason scrimmages, the Springside Chestnut Hill Academy volleyball team had a different outcome against a third Friends Schools League squad.
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by Tom Utescher
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9/21/22
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As their early non-league field hockey games grew progressively more challenging, the Springside Chestnut Hill Academy Blue Devils found themselves in a real battle last Thursday.
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by Tom Utescher
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9/21/22
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For some time, the Penn Charter field hockey team has changed head coaches every one or two years, but now its looks like the Quakers may have found a mentor who will become a steady leader.
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by Tom Utescher
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9/21/22
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For most of us, it's easy to take a flush toilet for granted.
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by Len Lear
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9/14/22
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Mt. Airy is perfect for Porchfest, and Tim Osborne knows it.
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by Kristin Holmes
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9/14/22
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Mt. Airy's much-praised racial diversity skipped over the issue of class, says author Abby Perkiss.
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by Len Lear
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9/14/22
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Germantown Academy graduated six players off of its 2021 field hockey team, including Sydney Cameron, who is now on the team at Wesleyan University.
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by Tom Utescher
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9/13/22
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Graduating fewer players than the year before, the boys' soccer team at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy lost six athletes from its 2021 roster.
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by Tom Utescher
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9/13/22
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“The opposite of getting is giving, and therein lies a secret to fulfillment."
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by Len Lear
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9/8/22
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There is an old saying in publishing that you should “write what you know,” and Mt. Airy author and social science researcher Lynn Gregory is an exemplar of that maxim.
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by Len Lear
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9/8/22
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Clover Market returns to Chestnut Hill this Sunday, September 11th.
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9/8/22
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