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Ten years ago, while walking down Germantown Avenue, Corinne Scioli stopped for a moment to admire the beautiful playground at the Jenks Academy for the Arts and Sciences. Looking up at the almost 100-year old school building, she paused in admiration and whispered to the universe, “I would love to be the principal of this school someday.”
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by Emily Plowman, Friends of Jenks
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6/18/21
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Prospective buyers looking to relocate to Mount Airy and Chestnut Hill are especially challenged, say local realtors.
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by Barbara Sheehan
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6/17/21
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Springfield Township will resume in-person meetings for all Board of Commissioner and advisory commission meetings beginning July 1, 2021. But things are not going back to the old “normal.”
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by Betsy Wallace
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6/17/21
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On May 28, the Germantown Jewish Centre discovered a large sign they had erected in support of Black Lives Matter had been defaced. The BLM sign had been in place more than a year.
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by Walt Maguire
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6/16/21
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The following crime report is for crimes reported in Chestnut Hill and Mt. Airy for the two-week period between June 7 to June 13. Some dates earlier than the current period took place at that date …
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6/16/21
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The Vestry of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Chestnut Hill, has called the Rev. Eric Paul Hungerford to be its twelfth rector.
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by Clark Groome
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6/15/21
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With indoor dining restrictions lifting and summer crowds returning, this is the time of year when the Chestnut Hill Business District puts everything in place for the rest of the year.
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by Walt Maguire
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6/11/21
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Mt. Airy Business Improvement District is responsible for more than two miles of Germantown Avenue, from Cresheim Valley Road to Washington Lane. Starting at Washington Lane, Germantown United CDC takes over for the next few miles.
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by Walt Maguire
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6/11/21
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On Friday, June 11, Philadelphia will end the indoor mask mandate and the 11 p.m. last call for restaurants. These are the final Safer at Home restrictions to be lifted as the city fully reopens.
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by Kate Dolan
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6/10/21
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The following crime report is for crimes reported in Chestnut Hill and Mt. Airy for the two-week period between May 24 to June 6. Some dates earlier than the current period took place at …
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6/9/21
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The proposed division of 540 W. Moreland Ave was opposed by the committee on the grounds that it provided no information on plans for the new lot, nor architectural details for restoration of the existing main house.
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by Walt Maguire
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6/9/21
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The Philadelphia Flower Show is being held outdoors this year for the first time since 1829, the year it was founded by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.
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by Diane Fiske
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6/9/21
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A new neighborhood group is forming in response to rapid density-oriented real estate development in Mt. Airy clustered along Germantown and Chew Avenues. East Mt. Airy resident, Linda Bell, is …
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by Patrick Cobbs
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6/9/21
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The Friends of the Wissahickon held its annual meeting again on Tuesday, June 1 via Zoom, the second time it was compelled to do so to account for Covid-19 mitigation. The tone of the meeting, …
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by Pete Mazzaccaro
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6/9/21
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I have seen countless reviews of businesses and non-profits on the internet since the World Wide Web was created in 1990, but I have never seen a group of reviews quite as overwhelmingly impressive as those from patients at Philadelphia Women's Health & Wellness in East Falls.
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by Len Lear
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6/4/21
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Philadelphia has backyard gardens and open park space or lots across most neighborhoods, and relatively low use of pesticides, making it a relatively friendly habitat for honeybees.
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by Walt Maguire
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6/4/21
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The restrictions on indoor dining brought more sidewalk cafés to Chestnut Hill. No one is in a rush to see them go away.
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by Walt Maguire
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6/3/21
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The question now is whether it turns into a 107-unit assisted living facility or luxury townhomes.
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by Barbara Sherf
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6/2/21
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Most Safer at Home restrictions in Philadelphia will be lifted on June 2, a week earlier than expected. PA will lift state restrictions on social gatherings on May 31.
The change is due to the lowest number of new COVID-19 cases being recorded in the city since September 2020.
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by Kate Dolan
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5/29/21
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Two articles in these pages recently mourned (and explained) the loss of the iconic tree that gave Chestnut Hill its name.
Ned Barnard (“Hunting for the American Chestnut in the …
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by Robert Fleming
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5/28/21
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