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When Natalie Sloane and her partner Brody Rosenfeld moved to their new home last year, they began picking up trash that they found on the street and formed the Mt. Airy Trash Team to tackle the problem of litter in their neighborhood.
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by Samuel Frost
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4/15/21
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East Mt. Airy gardeners came out Saturday, April 10, to support a new community garden at Pleasant Playground. New, but with roots that go back 38 years.
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by Patrick Cobbs
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4/15/21
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Will Maggs and Andres Maldonado opened Adelie Coffee at 6610 Germantown Avenue on February 15, 2020. On March 15, the pandemic lockdown forced them to shut down. They didn’t reopen until March 20, 2021.
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by Walt Maguire
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4/8/21
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After practicing law for 17 years, she’s entered the May 18 primary as a candidate for Judge on the Court of Common Pleas.
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by Walt Maguire
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4/7/21
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It's not as if Josephine (Jo) Winter, 40, of West Mt. Airy, was not busy enough before she became a “vaccine finder.”
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by Len Lear
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3/31/21
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How does a once-thriving Mt. Airy fitness training business that had contracts with several area nursing homes and senior citizen centers in addition to numerous at-home personal training clients manage to survive when the pandemic eliminated almost all of its business?
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by Len Lear
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3/26/21
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When Skirt Boutique owner Maureen Doron had an opportunity to donate funds to Emlen Elementary through her ‘Skirt for School’ fundraiser, it was a chance she couldn’t pass up.
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by David Hunt
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3/25/21
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On the first day of spring, a crew of volunteers worked at the Water Tower to help prepare the park for warmer days ahead.
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3/25/21
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Breaking Bread, Building Bridges is a new initiative from East Mount Airy Neighbors (EMAN) and West Mount Airy Neighbors (WMAN) to return a sense of community in a time when neighbors cannot …
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by Walt Maguire
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3/12/21
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Mt. Airy resident Ty'Aja Jones-Brown and Norristown resident Maya Crockem are just two of many women changing the perception that women can’t do construction work.
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by Sue Ann Rybak
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3/11/21
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West Mt. Airy attorney, songwriter and civic activist Debra Wolf Goldstein and her husband, Jay, former president of Valley Green Bank, have a unique way of fighting the winter doldrums.
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by Len Lear
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3/11/21
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Mt. Airy CDC (Community Development Corp.) last week announced the awarding of $27,000 in grants to 24 local businesses through the Go Mt. Airy Covid-19 Business Relief Fund. This fourth round of funding, the largest of the four rounds, brings the total raised since the fund launched last March to over $80,000.
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by Bradley Maule
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3/4/21
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Not too many businesses can say that their sales in December, 2020, when the pandemic was spiraling out of control, were twice as high as they were in December, 2019, four months before the pandemic had even begun.
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by Len Lear
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2/26/21
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The Commodore opened in October (with a “soft” opening).
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by Len Lear
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2/25/21
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Howard A. Myrick's latest accomplishment is a newly published book he authored, “Surviving Toxic 'Isms' and Polarizing Dissent; Protecting Our Democracy."
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by Len Lear
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2/19/21
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Philly Youth Vote has been around since 2016, when Thomas Quinn, a Mt. Airy resident and social studies teacher at Central High School, joined with others in the Caucus of Working Educators to …
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by Walt Maguire
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2/18/21
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Luke Klein, 46, who lived in Chestnut Hill for the first 10 years of his life and in Mt. Airy ever since, is a Quaker who puts his time and efforts and passion behind his beliefs.
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by Len Lear
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2/12/21
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Antoine and Samantha Joseph are investing everything they have and crowdsourcing help to renovate the Philadelphia Sunday Sun building into a black cultural space, as new residents flock to Mt. Airy.
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by Patrick Cobbs
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2/11/21
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When Edie Appel, 73, retired as Director of ChildSpace Day Care Center on Jan. 29, she left behind a legacy dedicated to the improvement of early childhood education in our community. What will she …
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by Stacia Friedman
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2/4/21
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Last summer, Jane Ellis pitched the idea about starting their own community refrigerator to the administrators at Greene Street Friends School, who jumped right on board with it.
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by Len Lear
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1/29/21
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