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Mt. Airy Day, the annual festival celebrating the Northwest Philadelphia neighborhood, has been cancelled because of weather forecasts predicting rain and thunderstorms this weekend.
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6/10/22
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Bass’s victory came on the heels of a Friday court ruling that ordered her to allow Cain and three other committeepeople who had challenged her control over the ward to participate in ward meetings.
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by Tom Beck
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6/7/22
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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.
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by Carla Robinson and Tom Beck
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5/18/22
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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.
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by Len Lear
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5/12/22
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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.
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5/12/22
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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.
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by Carla Robinson
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5/12/22
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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.
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by Carla Robinson
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5/6/22
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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.
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by Carla Robinson
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5/4/22
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Yes, Mt. Airy Day is back - in June.
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by Kristin Holmes
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5/4/22
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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.
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by Tom Beck
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5/4/22
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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.
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by Tom Beck
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4/28/22
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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.
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by Andrew Repasky McElhinney
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4/28/22
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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.
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by Len Lear
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4/28/22
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The Multicultural Academy Charter School senior is just one of 300 award recipients across the United States.
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4/28/22
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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.
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by Len Lear
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4/21/22
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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.
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by Tom Beck
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4/14/22
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“The older one is David … I can’t remember the other one’s name.”
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by Len Lear
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4/12/22
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"The Winter's Tale" is so wild it is unsurprising that few theaters are nervy enough to take it on.
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by Hugh Hunter
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4/7/22
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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 …
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4/6/22
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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.
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