This past year, the Mt. Airy Business Improvement District (BID) celebrated its 15th birthday.
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by Janis Risch, Executive Director, and Ken Weinstein, Board Chair
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12/30/22
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As 2022 comes to a close, I am grateful for the continued growth of our Jumpstart community.
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By Ken Weinstein, Founder, Jumpstart Germantown
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12/30/22
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Watch Night is a special service which has long been a tradition in the African American community, where believers bring in the new year at church.
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by Kevin R. Johnson, Ed.D., Founder and Lead Pastor, Dare to Imagine Church, Inc.
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12/30/22
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Sales from Oct. 21 through Dec. 16
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12/23/22
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A zoning permit issued for the former site of the Trinity Evangelical United Church has revealed plans for the owner’s “full demolition” of the church.
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by Tom Beck
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12/22/22
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You might say that for 18 years area yoga buffs could bank on Elise Rivers, but she announced last week that Community Acupuncture of Mt. Airy will close on Dec. 31.
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by Len Lear
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12/22/22
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Hanukkah, the Jewish community’s Festival of Lights, will be celebrated at 7 p.m., Dec. 19, with a public menorah lighting at Cliff Park, 7620 Germantown Ave.
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12/15/22
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Germantown business leaders launched the shopping season with multiple Small Business Saturday events.
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by Sammy Caiola (WHYY)
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12/1/22
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You'd never know it from his 25-year career as a professional actor with many accolades that Germantown resident Gregory Isaac did not secure his first theatrical role in a school play because of any acting ability.
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by Rita Charleston
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12/1/22
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Perhaps it was kismet that a Germantown-based ballet school and company with a mission to bring dance education and performance to students from diverse backgrounds would stage a production that is a travelogue through culture and the arts.
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by Ellen Thompson
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12/1/22
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When the pandemic first hit in early 2020, The Frosted Fox Cake Shop followed the city’s mandate and closed its doors – but by June, they were back in business.
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by Stacia Friedman
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11/24/22
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Somewhere between the third and sixth grade, Mt. Airy resident Nancy Agati decided she might like to be an artist one day.
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by Rita Charleston
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11/24/22
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Quintessence Theatre Group has won Theater Philadelphia’s $25,000 Philadelphia Award for Social Insight, honoring the company for its production of "Flyin' West."
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by Hugh Hunter
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11/24/22
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The city Streets Department has begun testing two choices for the new LED streetlights that will be installed across the city and is now offering residents a chance to weigh in on their color.
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by Carla Robinson
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11/23/22
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Civic leaders and preservationists succeeded in saving the Joseph P. Bolton Store and Residence at 4841 Germantown Ave. from near certain demolition on Thursday.
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by Tom Beck
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11/16/22
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Last month, somebody left a package on the back step of Mt. Airy United Fellowship Church that, according to pastor Rev. Joe Williams, “proves there are angels out there.”
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by Len Lear
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11/10/22
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Stan Cutler, a Chestnut Hill resident for 22 years and a Germantown resident for 20 years before that, is known as a stalwart cheerleader for the local library.
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by Len Lear
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11/10/22
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The Germantown Post Office is one of three Philadelphia post offices that are being audited. Chestnut Hill and Mt. Airy post offices didn't make the list.
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by Tom Beck
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11/9/22
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For Norma Wingate, an avid tennis player who starred on Central High School's Public League championship tennis team in 1992, the word “love” always makes her think of tennis.
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by Len Lear
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11/3/22
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The City of Philadelphia’s Department of Licenses and Inspections is investigating Infinite Enterprises, LLC, a construction company that demolished a Chestnut Hill home last year.
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by Tom Beck
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10/27/22
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