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For many years, I had been keeping up a regular walking routine in Wissahickon Valley Park. I no longer do so.
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3/23/22
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Peggy Hendrie was the soul of the Parking Foundation Manager in the mid 1980s.
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3/23/22
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There are some potholes that I’ve encountered regularly on Bethlehem Pike at the big intersection of Paper Mill Road and Stenton Avenue that I believe are going to disable my car sometime soon.
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3/23/22
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Despite being an American, loving this country, and English being the language I now think in, Kyiv has never stopped being a city I love and am nostalgic for. So much so that three days of our …
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by Olga Chernov-Gitin
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3/16/22
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Tom Beck’s article in the March 3 Chestnut Hill Local, ‘Regional Rail not recovering from COVID,’ includes the telling observation by Wayne Junction developer Ken Weinstein that to …
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3/10/22
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We are in the last weeks of our Annual Appeal. I am reaching out to you on behalf of the board of the Chestnut Hill Community Association to ask for your financial support.
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3/9/22
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The world and our community are sadder today for the passing of Mrs. Jessie Birtha, who died recently at age 102.
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3/2/22
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Soon after Acme started selling alcohol, trash on Mermaid Lane, Ardleigh and other surrounding streets quadrupled.
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2/24/22
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I wish to wholeheartedly thank Councilmember Cindy Bass for introducing legislation to temporarily halt demolition in the 8th district. I hope that during the six months’ moratorium City …
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by Jenny Godwin, Mt. Airy resident
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2/17/22
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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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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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As some of you may have read in last week’s edition of The Chestnut Hill Local, Chestnut Hill residents are about to be involved in a redistricting for future elections when it comes to our …
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I seldom object to the behavior of public officials, but the appearance of councilwoman Cindy Bass at a community meeting in Germantown was a disgrace to our neighborhood and our city.
On …
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I was astounded when I saw the recent demolition and mass deforestation in progress at the Sugarloaf Campus of Chestnut Hill College bordering on Germantown Pike.
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12/23/21
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I think I can safely say that no one moves to Mt. Airy, East or West, because they want to live in a dense neighborhood. People move here because they are looking for a suburban feeling, not an urban one.
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by Beverly Penn
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12/23/21
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I’m at the computer in my home office in Chestnut Hill with headphones on and the volume of Beethoven’s Fifth too loud to get anything done.
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n 2021 the Friends of Pastorius Park embarked upon an ambitious plan
to restore the plantings and vistas of Pastorius Park. We did so with the
goal of not only preserving Frederick Peck’s original Olmsted-inspired
Pastorius design, but also to expand the diversity and resilience of the
park’s trees and shrubs for the future.
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12/16/21
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A diverse community has evolved and it involves all the players, regardless of age, athletic ability, occupation, gender, race or class.
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12/16/21
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In October 2021, a few volunteers in Germantown initiated a Call to Action by the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority (“PRA”) to do what it had not done in the past six years…maybe not ever in its history! We called on the PRA to act counter to the politics that has governed the disposition of publicly-owned property in the City.
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12/9/21
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The recent article on Pickleball is extremely biased and unnecessarily snarky towards the players. Calling pickleball players “geriatrics” is highly insulting.
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12/9/21
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