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The streets of Mt. Airy rang out with rock, blues, pop, R&B, game boy and country music Sunday in the community’s first-ever Porchfest. The festival featured musicians performing on porches throughout the neighborhood where residents observed while sitting in garden chairs, or created a kind of on-the-street standing room only. Organizers are hoping to make Porchfest an annual event.

9/22/22

The Chestnut Hill Rotary Club members met for their monthly happy hour at Rotarian Voltaire Blaine's shoe boutique, Style by Blaine, at 8433 Germantown Ave. Along with global service projects, the Rotary supports local public schools, local businesses, and organizes neighborhood cleanups. Come join our next monthly happy hour at the Market at the Fairway's Chestnut Hill Brewery on Oct. 20 at 4:30 p.m., or drop in on our weekly Wednesday meeting at the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill at 7:30 a.m. We bet you might know some of us!

9/22/22

The Local is recruiting board members. more

9/22/22

Martha Madigan's work has been exhibited internationally and is in the collections of major museums including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and in private collections and institutions worldwide.

Mt. Airy teacher and photographer saw beauty everywhere

“I have received so many letters since Martha died about how she affected people's lives." more

by Len Lear | 9/22/22

The blowing of the shofar is a High Holiday tradition.

Jewish High Holidays to begin Sunday

Jewish families around the region will begin observing the High Holidays at sundown Sept. 25, marking the holiest time of the year. more

9/22/22

Dwyer, in red T-shirt, with youngsters in Guatemala, where most of the country's residents live on less than $2 a day.

Hiller left world of finance for service in Guatemala

When Brendan Dwyer was four years old, his mom, Marianne, became the director of Teenagers, Inc., a nonprofit that aims to connect teens to the world through community service. more

by Len Lear | 9/22/22

Jose Benitez, CEO of Prevention Point Philadelphia, will speak to the Chestnut Hill Rotary Club about opioid addiction and related issues on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 7:30 to 8:30 a.m., at the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill.

Needle exchange advocate to speak to Hill Rotary Club

According to city statistics, Philadelphia hit 1,250 opioid overdose deaths last year – a situation that Jose Benitez, CEO of Prevention Point Philadelphia (PPP), knows all too well. more

by Len Lear | 9/22/22

Crime Report

The following crime report is for crimes reported in Chestnut Hill and Mt. Airy for the period from Sept. 5-19. more

9/22/22

A photo of the car stolen from the victim.

Elderly Mt. Airy woman assaulted at her home

Philadelphia Police are on a hunt for a man who sexually assaulted a 71-year-old Mt. Airy woman in her home on the 7400 block of Devon Street Thursday afternoon around 3:30 p.m. more

9/22/22

Cricket Club dinner dance a new CHCA tradition

The Chestnut Hill Community Association’s first annual Fall Frolic was a big hit on Thursday evening, drawing a crowd of at least 174 people to the Philadelphia Cricket Club. more

9/22/22

2022-2023: 50th Anniversary "Best of" Season!

Rick loses his idealism when he loses Ilsa amidst the chaos of World War II, opening a bar in neutral Casablanca to lick his wounds. more

9/22/22

Juniors Kamaha'o Bode (center) and Zahkiyyah Frazier (right) defend the net in last week's match at ANC.

For SCH volleyball, staffing shortages affect ANC match

After overcoming Shipley School and George School in preseason scrimmages, the Springside Chestnut Hill Academy volleyball team had a different outcome against a third Friends Schools League squad. more

by Tom Utescher | 9/21/22

Blue Devils goalie Colleen Conlan urges on her teammates (from left) Caitlyn Melinson, Kerry O'Donnell, and Devyn Conlan as they charge out to counter a Merion Mercy penalty corner.

SCH field hockey faces down challenge from visiting Bears

As their early non-league field hockey games grew progressively more challenging, the Springside Chestnut Hill Academy Blue Devils found themselves in a real battle last Thursday. more

by Tom Utescher | 9/21/22

A 2005 Penn Charter graduate who played collegiate field hockey at Penn, Margaretha Ehret has returned to PC to pilot the Quaker sticksters.

Second Ehret era in PC field hockey begins with a win

For some time, the Penn Charter field hockey team has changed head coaches every one or two years, but now its looks like the Quakers may have found a mentor who will become a steady leader. more

by Tom Utescher | 9/21/22

A rendering of the development proposed by Khosla Properties at the Sept. 6 CDR meeting. The development team is expected to make changes when the hearing is continued next month.

Two new developments add more density in Mt. Airy

There are 100 new units of housing in two separate developments coming soon to Mt. Airy, both of which are just off the commercial corridor of Germantown Avenue. more

by Tom Beck | 9/21/22

Haws Lane photo showing the open space acreage that will be condemned.

Haws Lane: Half for townhouses, half for open space

It’s not every day that a municipality condemns land to preserve open space. But the Springfield Township Board of Commissioners did just that on Sept. 14. more

by Betsy Wallace | 9/21/22

A rendering showing the development Frankel Enterprises planned next to the Chestnut Hill Baptist Church.

CHCA wins 10 Bethlehem Pike Appeal in surprise ruling

The Chestnut Hill Community Association won a major legal battle on Tuesday in its attempt to stop construction of a five story, 33-unit apartment complex where the old Sunoco station used to sit on … more

by Tom Beck | 9/15/22

The City Streets Department is now scheduled to begin replacing the sidewalk light fixtures like this one outside the old cheese shop with replicas that use LEDs next week. The new lights will be brighter and cooler in color than the current ones.

Bass calls for 'urgency' regarding Chestnut Hill's new streetlights.

Questions still remain about the new streetlights that went on residential streets early this summer more

by Carla Robinson | 9/14/22

From left, U.S. Reps. Dwight Evans, Madeleine Dean and Chrissy Houlahan, all of Pennsylvania, listen as Rep. Gerry Connolly, of Virginia, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Government Operations, discusses the U.S. Postal Service at a hearing last week in Philadelphia.

The USPS is broken, say local members of Congress

Philadelphia’s congressional delegation wonder why Postmaster General Louis DeJoy still has a job. more

by Tom Beck | 9/14/22

Police officers blocked off the northbound section of Germantown Avenue where two construction workers were hit Thursday morning.

Two CHC campus construction workers hit by drunk driver

One of the victims had to be transported by helicopter to Einstein Hospital. more

by Tom Beck | 9/14/22

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