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Chestnut Hill and neighboring Mt. Airy are seeing steep increases to their tax assessments. Photo by Carla Robinson

Homeowners hit with sudden and steep increases in property taxes

Homeowners in the Northwest are grappling with the potential impact of increases as high as 30 to 40 percent - and in some cases even more. more

by Carla Robinson and Tom Beck | 5/18/22

The Green Street Monthly Meeting of Friends has pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years to assist Black homeowners in Germantown with issues related wills, deeds and titles.

Germantown Quaker group giving $500,000 in reparations

Recognizing that for most middle class Americans, home ownership is a primary source of wealth and stability, the congregation is focused on making sure their immediate Black neighbors are able to keep and maintain their properties. more

by Len Lear | 5/12/22

Ben Frasier III, new graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy.

Mt. Airy native graduates from the U.S. Naval Academy

Frazier was a member of the United States Naval Academy Drum and Bugle Corps and the Yard Patrol Squadron, where he served as Commodore and a member of the Brigade leadership. more

5/12/22

Architectural rendering of a restored Sedgwick Theater facade.

More state funds for historic Sedgwick Theater

State Sen. Art Haywood helped secure the $750,000 grant, a significant step toward the theatre group's ultimate goal of buying and restoring the entire building. more

by Carla Robinson | 5/12/22

Weavers Way plans to restore the glass windows in the former Acme Grocery when it opens its new store at the corner of West Chelten Avenue and Morris Street.

Weavers Way announces a new store in Germantown

The Co-op has signed a lease for 328 W Chelten Avenue at the corner of Chelten Avenue and Morris Street, in the section of the neighborhood known as West Chelten. It expects to open the new store next summer. more

by Carla Robinson | 5/6/22

Jockey Marlon St. Julien sits aboard Four On The Floor after winning the Grand Prairie Turf Challenge at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas, in this Monday, July 3, 2000, file photo. Black riders were atop 13 of the 15 horses in the first Kentucky Derby in 1875 and won 15 of the first 28 incarnations of the race. Kendrick Carmouche, on Saturday, May 1, 2021, will be the first Black Jockey in the Kentucky Derby since 2013 and just the fourth in the past century. (Jeffery Washington/Star-Telegram via AP, File)

Ebenezer Maxwell museum honors Black jockeys with Kentucky Derby party

What most people probably don't know is that the Derby was originally dominated by Black jockeys when it was first launched in 1875, the height of the Victorian era. more

by Carla Robinson | 5/4/22

Mt. Airy Day's return postponed due to weather

Yes, Mt. Airy Day is back - in June. more

by Kristin Holmes | 5/4/22

Phil Dawson makes the move to Mt. Airy

His new position at the Mt. Airy CDC, which he started in March, has the same title as his old one: executive director. But this time around, he’ll have a different set of responsibilities. more

by Tom Beck | 5/4/22

State Rep. Chris Rabb speaks to a crowd celebrating the renaming of Allens Lane and the Allen Lane Train Station in honor of Bishop Richard Allen. Photo by Tom Beck

New state house district brings a competitive primary to Mt. Airy

The race for the 200th district, which contains all of Mt. Airy and West Oak Lane and a small sliver of Chestnut Hill south of Willow Grove Avenue, features the only two Democratic incumbents in Pennsylvania who were redistricted into the same district: Chris Rabb and Isabella Fitzgerald. more

by Tom Beck | 4/28/22

Mt. Airy cinematographer Abe Holtz shot footage for about 400 interviews with Holocaust survivors for the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History project, started by director Steven Spielberg.

Mt. Airy cinematographer on Holocaust Remembrance Day

In early 1996, Holtz began working with the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History project, which director Steven Spielberg started after the movie Schindler's List to document the experiences of Holocaust survivors. more

by Andrew Repasky McElhinney | 4/28/22

Bettina Hoerlin looks through some of the 500 letters she discovered in an old suitcase. Hoerlin’s parents wrote the letters to each in the 1930s when they lived in Nazi Germany before escaping to the U.S.

A cache of love letters uncovers an amazing family story

Hoerlin, who served as Health Commissioner of Philadelphia and now lives in Center City, taught public health at the University of Pennsylvania and has been a visiting lecturer at Haverford College and Oxford University. more

by Len Lear | 4/28/22

Bass aide wins full scholarship funded by Bill Gates

The Multicultural Academy Charter School senior is just one of 300 award recipients across the United States. more

4/28/22

Long-time Mt. Airy resident Kathy Robinson, whose works are in the exhibit, has always been drawn to beeswax and the effects achieved by painting with it. Photo by Elliot Polinsky

The works of 23 local artists on exhibit in Mt. Airy

Chestnut Hill area resident and former public school teacher Frank Burd, who has written theater reviews for area newspapers and whose photos have appeared in the Local, is one of the participating artists. more

by Len Lear | 4/21/22

Attempted robbery of mail carrier Mt. Airy

The incident comes on the heels of two arrests made by the Tredyffrin Police Department in December that were connected to mail fraud happening in Philadelphia. In those cases, the fraud involved thieves stealing checks from mailboxes. more

by Tom Beck | 4/14/22

Azariah John Faith and his family, of Harrisburg, stayed in a local apartment thanks to Hosts for Hospitals. “Thank God for Hosts for Hospitals,” said mom, Savanna. “Azariah got the absolute best care in the Children's Hospital (of Philadelphia) Cardiac Care Unit.”

Hosting families in need for 22 years

“The older one is David … I can’t remember the other one’s name.” more

by Len Lear | 4/12/22

Hanna Gaffney, one of the stars now at Quintessence, is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, a teaching artist, dialect coach, makeup artist and sometime seamstress.

Great new renditions of Elizabethan dramas in Mt. Airy

"The Winter's Tale" is so wild it is unsurprising that few theaters are nervy enough to take it on. more

by Hugh Hunter | 4/7/22

East Mt Airy Neighbors partners with FarmerJawn to provide 50 households with grow bags, cold weather seedlings and warm weather seeds

The spring weather was chilly on the morning of Saturday, March 26, when East Mt Airy Neighbors partnered with FarmerJawn to provide 50 households with grow bags, cold weather seedlings and warm … more

4/6/22

Civic and business leaders brainstorm parking in Mt. Airy

Lantern’s entry into the neighborhood would mean two theaters on the same 7100 block of the business corridor. The other, Quintessence Theatre Group, is located in the historic Sedgwick Theater building. And that has the potential to create a Shakespearean tragedy of a parking situation if the two theaters were to hold productions on the same night. more

by Tom Beck | 4/6/22 | 1 comment

St. Paul's and St. Martin's Episcopal Churches joined the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill in Prayer Vigil for Peace in Ukraine

St. Paul's and St. Martin's Episcopal Churches joined the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill to organize a Prayer Vigil for Peace in Ukraine on Sunday evening, March 27th. About 100 people gathered … more

4/6/22

The former Presbyterian Church at the corner of Germantown and Mt. Pleasant avenues is slated to become home to a second Lantern Theater. Photo by Carla Robinson

A new Lantern Theater coming to Mt. Airy

Neighbors of the former Presbyterian church building on the corner of Germantown and Mt. Pleasant Avenues voted Thursday to approve the Lantern Theater Company’s proposed tenancy - with the stipulation that it never be used for a strip club. more

by Carla Robinson | 3/23/22

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