For the week of May 8, 2023
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5/11/23
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TierView Development was granted a demolition permit for one wall of the building that formerly housed the Mt. Airy National Bank at 7208 Germantown Ave. in preparation for an addition.
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by Tom Beck
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5/11/23
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Walter Bell, an international force in jazz, gave up the flute for 20 years because his music career wasn’t paying the bills.
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by Len Lear
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5/11/23
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Once again, the Springfield Township School District will host the American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life of the Wissahickon Valley.
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by Jodi Benjamin
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5/11/23
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This year’s annual Home and Garden Festival was a blooming success, drawing 12,000 to 15,000 visitors to Chestnut Hill’s Germantown Avenue on Sunday.
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by Carla Robinson
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5/10/23
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Howard Myrick knows what it is like to overcome odds and to battle racist attitudes and practices.
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by Len Lear
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5/4/23
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Not everyone appreciates the roar of chainsaws outside their window first thing in the morning, but it was music to the ears of Pastorius Park neighbor Kava Franklin.
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by Francesca Chapman
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5/4/23
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Flower lovers, rejoice. Germantown Avenue is about to burst into bloom again, and it won’t just be at street level.
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5/4/23
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The “Kid’s Zone” at the Jenks Academy for the Arts and Sciences, a perennially favorite part of Chestnut Hill’s Home & Garden Festival, is back again this year.
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by Emily Plowman, Friends of Jenks
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5/4/23
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What’s your favorite treasured place in Chestnut Hill? It's time to vote for new sites to join the Chestnut Hill Architectural Hall of Fame.
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by Lori Salganicoff, Alex Bartlett and George McNeely
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5/4/23
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In the spring of 2016, a lawn sign popped up in the front yard of a home at Gravers Lane and Ardleigh Street. The sign advertised Backyard Eats.
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by Len Lear
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5/4/23
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The answer most people give today when they are asked why they love Chestnut Hill is that they love its historic village character.
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by Patricia M. Cove
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5/4/23
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The Chestnut Hill Brewing Company, which is celebrating its sixth year in business this April, has certainly delivered on its original promise.
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by Frank D. Quattrone
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5/4/23
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About 100 Germantown neighbors turned out in force to express unanimous opposition to a proposed five-story, 148-unit project at 42-68 Church Lane.
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by Tom Beck
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5/3/23
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It’s a sure sign of spring in Chestnut Hill: the annual Home & Garden Festival, returning to Germantown Avenue Sunday, May 7.
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by Francesca Chapman
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5/3/23
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Mt. Airy residents are on track to soon see the construction of eight newly improved crosswalks along Germantown Avenue beginning in the fall of next year.
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by Tom Beck and Carla Robinson
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4/28/23
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Deep into the pandemic, Beth Wright surveyed SEPTA’s Highland Station and saw silent tracks and an empty parking lot. She saw something else, too.
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by Francesca Chapman
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4/28/23
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At 102, Deacon Rena Graves figures she is an expert on the intricacies of aging.
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by Kristin Holmes
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4/28/23
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The C.W. Henry Elementary School in Mt. Airy just became the 5th city school that must close due to the discovery of asbestos in the building.
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by Carla Robinson
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4/28/23
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