Another Chestnut Hill resident has been left reeling after having at least one check stolen after mailing it inside the Chestnut Hill post office on Germantown Avenue.
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by Tom Beck
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6/9/22
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Bass’s victory came on the heels of a Friday court ruling that ordered her to allow Cain and three other committeepeople who had challenged her control over the ward to participate in ward meetings.
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by Tom Beck
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6/7/22
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City Councilmember Cindy Bass committed to contributing capital funding to move pickleball courts from the Water Tower Recreation Center during a Monday night meeting and said that her office would work to create more pickleball courts across the 8th Councilmanic District.
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by Tom Beck
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6/1/22
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June 15 will mark the end of the city’s piloting period for new hours, which started in March.
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by Tom Beck
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5/18/22
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Homeowners in the Northwest are grappling with the potential impact of increases as high as 30 to 40 percent - and in some cases even more.
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by Carla Robinson and Tom Beck
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5/18/22
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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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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 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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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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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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When the Pennsylvania Supreme Court finalized the state’s constitutionally-mandated political redistricting last month, it brought bad news for many Hillers who support Chris Rabb. The …
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by Tom Beck
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4/28/22
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The Neurodiversity Life Skills Through Career Program, which will serve incoming students who have a neurodiversity diagnosis, will provide extra support starting the summer before their first year of college.
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by Tom Beck
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4/28/22
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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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Carla Cain, the committeeperson suing Bass, says in the lawsuit that Bass improperly removed her as the designated primary contact for the 22nd Ward Democratic Committee RCO, a registered community organization she created in 2019.
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by Tom Beck
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2/1/22
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The complaint states that at least 25 minors were tricked into performing sex acts online, including some students at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy.
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by Carla Robinson
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1/6/22
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