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by Brendan Sample In the next step toward upgrading Chestnut Hill’s parking meters, representatives from the Philadelphia Parking Association met with community members on Wednesday, April 11, to further discuss a potential upgrade to either smart meters or kiosks across the neighborhood. While there is no timeline for when this change could happen, the Chestnut […]

by Maddie Clark Come Saturday, April 21, at 1 p.m., the Awbury Arboretum will host another event in its yearlong program, the Year of the Pollinator: Pollinators FOUND. “Our April event is the crux of our Year of the Pollinator program,” said Dan Sardaro, a public relations/publicity intern at Awbury. The event will be a […]

by Maddie Clark “As long as [Hideaway Music] has been here, I’ve been a customer,” said Thomas Browne, a native Irishman and an avid record collector with an insatiable thirst for music. Browne, who visits Hideaway Music every day during his lunch break, discussed all facets of record collecting that make this somewhat obsolete medium […]

by Brendan Sample Chestnut Hill is set to get another new food and drink establishment, as the Foodery will be arriving in the neighborhood later this year. The new business will be at 7829 Germantown Ave., the same spot formerly occupied by Towey’s Tavern, which closed in October. Though the Foodery bought the bar in […]

  by Barbara Sherf Locally there was mixed reaction to a recent poll that found two-thirds of American millennials (age18-34) surveyed could not identify what Auschwitz was, according to a study released on Holocaust Remembrance Day (April 11). The study also found that knowledge of the genocide that killed 6 million Jews during World War […]

by Sue Ann Rybak Residents, educators, advocates and politicians all agreed that the dissolution of the School Reform Committee and the return of the School District of Philadelphia to local control was “a step in the right direction.” The new, nine-member board of education includes Julia Danzy, Leticia Egea-Hinton, Mallory Fix Lopez, Lee Huang, Maria […]

by Brendan Sample With its official status as a nationally recognized historic district, Chestnut Hill is known best for its abundance of historic and architecturally significant homes Even after undergoing plenty of renovations and general upkeep, these houses have maintained their historic facades, thus continuing to add to the charm of the neighborhood. Over the […]

By Pete Mazzaccaro The Chestnut Hill Local collected four Keystone Press Awards given out each year by the Pennsylvania News Media Association. Associate Editor Sue Ann Rybak’s series “Struggling with Addiction” won first place in the “Series” category. The series contained three stories highlighting multiple aspects of addiction and the stories of people who have […]