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Anyone interested in planting new trees in Chestnut Hill, supporting the maintenance of green spaces, or becoming a tree tender with the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, which supervises the program, is welcome at the March 17 event.
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3/17/22
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When Webster graduated one year later from Kennedy-Kenrick High School in Norristown, she joined the Army and wound up as a military guard stationed at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, overseeing prisoner detainees from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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by Len Lear
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3/16/22
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The Chestnut Hill Conservancy’s Preservation Recognition Award to the Friends of Pastorius Park for their ambitious plan to restore the plantings and vistas.
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by Shirley Hanson
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3/3/22
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Chestnut Hill College and neighbors, at odds over the Sugarloaf Campus construction project, are seeking solutions for flooding and erosion problems at Wissahickon Creek.
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by Carla Robinson
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3/2/22
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The Mt. Airy Business Improvement District is working to create a better pedestrian experience along the neighborhood’s central business corridor.
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by Carla Robinson
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3/2/22
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Chestnut Hill College announced yesterday its choice for its seventh president, Dr. William W. Latimer, Ph.D., M.P.H.
In a statement posted on the college website on Monday, the Sisters of …
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3/2/22
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Mt. Airy CDC is pleased to welcome Philip Dawson as its new executive director, effective March 1st.
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3/2/22
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A total of seven teams from across the region played over a four day period, from Feb. 24th to the 27th.
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Photos by Tom Utescher
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3/1/22
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After the COVID disruption of 2021 tourney, the event returned to the local school last weekend, but the defending champs from Collegeville, Pa. did not.
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by Tom Utescher
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3/1/22
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It was the 48th edition of the local grade school basketball tournament, and it gave the boys' team from host NFA the unique opportunity to win not just one, but two championships in a three-day span.
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by Tom Utescher
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3/1/22
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This ladder play-off event gave Springside Chestnut Hill Academy a chance to extend its season, but as it turned out, the Blue Devils would only get in one more game.
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by Tom Utescher
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3/1/22
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Five of the 16 new businesses that have opened in Chestnut Hill since the pandemic began are Black-owned and in Mt. Airy, a similar corps of new enterprises have also set up shop.
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by Stacia Friedman
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2/25/22
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In the wake of last week’s article about checks going missing from USPS mailboxes and then later being forged for various amounts of money, several more residents and businesses say they’ve also been the victims of this kind of crime - including this newspaper.
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by Tom Beck
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2/24/22
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Oscar Johnson and his family are celebrating his 100th birthday with a dinner for 12, surrounded by the festive Christmas decorations that he loves. Photo by Kristin Holmes
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by Kristin Holmes
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2/24/22
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The building has been vacant since the city closed the high school back in 2013.
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by Tom Beck
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2/23/22
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With the victory, Jefferson avenged an 84-79 loss at CHC in mid-January, and the Rams also clinched the regular-season championship in the South division of the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference for the third season in a row.
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by Tom Utescher
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2/23/22
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Game host Jefferson University had won eight in a row, while visiting Chestnut Hill College had previously had a win streak ended at 13 games with a February 9 loss in overtime at Dominican College in Orangeburg, N.Y.
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by Tom Utescher
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2/23/22
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The two AACA squads were arrayed against one another a third time in the first round of the PIAA District 1 Class 5A tournament last Friday.
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by Tom Utescher
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2/23/22
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Due to medical reasons, SCH would have to play without its regular number one and number two players, sisters Whitney (a senior) and Nathalie (a junior) Taylor.
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by Tom Utescher
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2/23/22
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Ruth Pfeffer, who has been leading bird walks for 50 years and just celebrated her 80th birthday, will be leading a series of events at the Mount Airy Learning Tree this month.
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Len Lear
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2/23/22
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