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Campaign season in the 8th Councilmanic District will end Tuesday when voters decide whether to retain incumbent Councilmember Cindy Bass or elect her challenger, Seth Anderson-Oberman.
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by Tom Beck
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5/10/23
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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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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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Last Wednesday evening’s debate for May 16th’s 8th District Councilmanic primary election featured three-term incumbent Cindy Bass and her challenger, Seth Anderson-Oberman.
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by Tom Beck
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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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The Springfield Township Zoning Hearing Board is scheduled Monday to hear a homeowner’s appeal of a January zoning violation for operating a business inside a residential district.
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by Tom Beck
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4/20/23
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It was one the most endearing sounds one can hear: children’s laughter. And it was hard to believe that three years earlier, it wasn’t there at all.
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by Kyle Bagenstose
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4/20/23
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The upcoming Democratic primary on May 16 is an event of considerable importance for the residents of Northwest Philadelphia.
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by Carla Robinson, Editor
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4/20/23
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It was in 1972 that several West Mt. Airy residents dissatisfied with the quality and prices of food in area supermarkets, started a food-buying group in a church basement.
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by Len Lear
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4/12/23
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Even before last week, it was clear that Seth Anderson-Oberman, challenger to incumbent 8th District Councilmember Cindy Bass, was generating buzz.
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by Tom Beck
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4/12/23
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Police are investigating incidents of neo-Nazi stickers placed along telephone poles up and down Germantown Avenue in Chestnut Hill.
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by Tom Beck
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4/5/23
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Students at Our Mother of Consolation School will return to in-person classes Thursday, April 13, resuming their school year at Chestnut Hill College after a devastating fire destroyed their school.
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by Paul Mercurio
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4/5/23
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The ward’s elected leader, Jeff Duncan, called Anderson-Oberman, who overwhelmingly won the vote among 9th ward committeepeople by a 20 to four margin, an “impressive candidate.”
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by Tom Beck
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4/4/23
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As of Thursday, March 29, the city’s website was posting the following update: “Philadelphia’s water is safe to drink."
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3/29/23
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For the fifth Sunday in Lent, Father John Fisher, of Our Mother of Consolation parish, delivered his homily from an unusual location – the gym of Norwood-Fontbonne Academy.
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by Francesca Chapman
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3/29/23
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A three-alarm inferno destroyed the historic OMC parish school on Tuesday.
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Carla Robinson
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3/21/23
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Anderson-Oberman reported gathering 3,812 signatures – more than five times the minimum of 750 required to run for office in a councilmanic district.
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by Tom Beck
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3/16/23
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The city's Zoning Board of Adjustment denied a variance that would allow the owner of the historic Vanna Venturi House to build an accessory dwelling unit on the property.
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by Tom Beck
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3/16/23
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Less than five months after resigning as president of the Springfield Township Board of Commissioners, Eddie Graham resigned from the board altogether on Monday afternoon as an act of protest.
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by Tom Beck
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3/8/23
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Northwest Philadelphia area floral and landscape designers were among the winners announced earlier this week at the PHS Philadelphia Flower Show, which runs through Sunday, March 12.
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3/8/23
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