Shopping season has arrived. The Avenue has plenty to offer. Including free parking on Wednesdays through December.
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11/18/21
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Must be leafblower season
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11/4/21
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10/29/21
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October 26 is the deadline to apply for a mail-in ballot.
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10/21/21
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McNally's Tavern, George Woodward Company, Norwood-Fontbonne Academy, at their centennial.
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10/14/21
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We’ve been making a few changes here at the Local in the four weeks I’ve been your editor. One of the most important of those changes started last week, when Tom Beck joined the team as our newest reporter.
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by Carla Robinson
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10/7/21
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Nearly all of the feedback provided by neighbors was negative.
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10/7/21
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“It being one of the principles of the Circumlocution Office never, on any account whatever, to give a straightforward answer.”
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by John Derr, Publisher
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9/30/21
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On September 14th, I sent an email to the U.S. Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy. Because I couldn’t trust the USPS to deliver a letter to him.
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by John Derr, Publisher
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9/23/21
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Chestnut Hill Arts in the Fall.
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9/23/21
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Last week, I began my new role as editor of this storied newspaper. And I consider myself fortunate indeed. I have always loved journalism, and being able to do it amid so much history and such a deep bench of fascinating people is an opportunity few could pass up.
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by Carla Robinson
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9/16/21
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After an almost two-month search, the Chestnut Hill Local has named Carla Robinson as its new editor. Robinson replaces Pete Mazzaccaro who resigned in June after 15 years in the …
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The news about logic has been illogical over the past few weeks. Most of the story has been on the medical front: We have a vaccine that prevents serious injury and death, yet some choose to get …
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by Walt Maguire
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9/9/21
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There will be Labor concerts, Labor Day cookouts, even Labor Day last-minute bingeing of summer movies. Some of this will be loud. There will be firecrackers.
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by Walt Maguire
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9/3/21
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Monday’s FDA approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is expected to open the door for more businesses to require immunization as a condition of employment.
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by John Derr, Publisher
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8/26/21
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Another thing lost in the pandemic year: We will never again be able to tell our children We Had It Worse In My Day.
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by Walt Maguire
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8/19/21
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How do we prove we’re vaccinated, and when? The PA card is notoriously slightly-too-big for a wallet. Restaurant workers, service workers of all kind, are trapped in this situation.
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by Walt Maguire
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8/12/21
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Last week there was an error in a story I wrote...at the end of a long article with a lot of perfectly accurate facts.
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by Walt Maguire
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8/5/21
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Ellen Van Pelt Wells was editor of the Chestnut Hill Local from 1958 to 1972. She passed away August 14, age 93. This column, from June 22, 1972, was one of the last she wrote for the Local, signed with her customary E.V.P.W.
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6/22/21
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In a 1937 book titled "Everyone's Autobiography," Gertrude Stein wrote, "there is no there there," lamenting that her childhood home had been torn down and replaced with an office building.
This …
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by John Derr
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4/1/21
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