Recognizing that for most middle class Americans, home ownership is a primary source of wealth and stability, the congregation is focused on making sure their immediate Black neighbors are able to keep and maintain their properties.
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by Len Lear
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5/12/22
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The grant comes on the heels of another $10 million grant the Maguire Foundation gave to the Woodmere Art Museum in late April to help renovate St. Michael’s Hall.
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by Tom Beck
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5/12/22
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State Sen. Art Haywood helped secure the $750,000 grant, a significant step toward the theatre group's ultimate goal of buying and restoring the entire building.
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by Carla Robinson
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5/12/22
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The charging document alleges that President and Treasurer Ingrid Shepard “regularly used her position to unlawfully access” the district's bank account, and transfering funds into her own personal account as well as the accounts of two nonprofits that she founded.
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by Carla Robinson
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5/12/22
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Her brand, which she calls The Vault, is the first online luxury designer resale shop to offer high end clothing to the disabled as well as able-bodied people.
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by Stacia Friedman
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5/12/22
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“This is what we have been predicting,” said Kolbert, who is the lawyer who successfully argued to protect that right before the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1992 landmark case Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
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by April Lisante
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5/12/22
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The following crime report is for crimes reported in Chestnut Hill and Mt. Airy for the period from May 2 to May 8. (Some crimes that occurred on dates earlier than the current period may be included.)
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5/12/22
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EMAN says residents were getting outnumbered on zoning votes by people who don’t live on their side of Germantown Avenue.
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by Tom Beck
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5/11/22
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The following crime report is for crimes reported in Chestnut Hill and Mt. Airy for the period from April 25 to May 1. (Some crimes that occurred on dates earlier than the current period may be …
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5/6/22
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The Co-op has signed a lease for 328 W Chelten Avenue at the corner of Chelten Avenue and Morris Street, in the section of the neighborhood known as West Chelten. It expects to open the new store next summer.
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by Carla Robinson
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5/6/22
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Running in this year’s Democratic primary are six-term incumbent Pam DeLissio, who for the past 12 years has served Roxborough and parts of Montgomery County, and Tarik Khan, a nurse who made a name for himself getting more than 500 Philadelphians vaccinated during the pandemic.
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by Tom Beck
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5/4/22
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Thornburgh recounted an experience he had five years ago when voting in a primary election at the Chestnut Hill Library, where he saw a mother with two young children ask two poll workers how she, as a registered independent, can vote in the primary election.
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by Tom Beck
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5/4/22
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Yes, Mt. Airy Day is back - in June.
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by Kristin Holmes
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5/4/22
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His new position at the Mt. Airy CDC, which he started in March, has the same title as his old one: executive director. But this time around, he’ll have a different set of responsibilities.
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by Tom Beck
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5/4/22
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The Chestnut Hill Home & Garden Festival was back in full swing on Sunday, after two years of pandemic dreariness.
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5/4/22
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With a number of hurdles now behind it, Chestnut Hill College is ready to move forward with construction of its new entrance at Germantown and Hillcrest Avenues.
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by Carla Robinson
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4/28/22
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A public meeting held by the Springfield Township Board of Commissioners April 13 became unusually contentious when residents spoke about the township’s Police Benevolent Association logo, which includes the Blue Lives Matter emblem.
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by Tom Beck
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4/28/22
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The Maguire Foundation has given $10 million to Woodmere Art Museum for St. Michael’s Hall - funding a major improvement to the institution and prompting it to rename the historic building.
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by Carla Robinson
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4/28/22
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The race for the 200th district, which contains all of Mt. Airy and West Oak Lane and a small sliver of Chestnut Hill south of Willow Grove Avenue, features the only two Democratic incumbents in Pennsylvania who were redistricted into the same district: Chris Rabb and Isabella Fitzgerald.
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by Tom Beck
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4/28/22
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In early 1996, Holtz began working with the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History project, which director Steven Spielberg started after the movie Schindler's List to document the experiences of Holocaust survivors.
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by Andrew Repasky McElhinney
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4/28/22
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