January
26, 2006 Issue
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January
26, 2006 Issue
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Eyesore may linger
while Commerce Bank construction remains halted
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Since Commerce Bank was required to stop construction this past fall, the blue-tarped, fenced-in framework that is to be the future Chestnut Hill branch has remained an eye sore on the corner of Germantown and Evergreen Avenues.
The Department of Licenses and Inspections brought construction to a standstill in response to Chestnut Hill Community Association concern that the work being done exceeded what was allowed in the permit, according to speculation from various sources. The commissioner and deputy commissioners with the department failed to return calls to the Local by press time.
“Lions
and tigers and bears, oh my!”
The popular Wizard of Oz quote may be floating around the streets of Chestnut
Hill come September
by KRISTIN PAZULSKI
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This Monday, Chestnut Hill welcomed the first of many fiberglass animal statues that will line Germantown Avenue and Bethlehem Pike as part of the Business Association’s “AbZOOlutely Chestnut Hill” fundraiser.
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Thanks to a successful first stage of a comprehensive capital campaign, Chestnut Hill Academy has begun construction on Phase I of its Campus Master Plan. “We have been working on this project for over two years; we are so excited to see our vision becoming a reality. These new facilities are part of our commitment to make CHA the premier boys school in the Philadelphia area” said CHA headmaster Frank Steel.
2005 Holiday
House Tour:
A successful showcase but down financially from last year
by KRISTIN PAZULSKI
The 2005 Holiday House Tour, held Saturday, Dec. 10, was deemed a success by attendees and planners, despite not living up to financial expectations in its profit of only about $7,500 compared to last year’s $20,000.
Attempting
to rewrite history?
by JIM FOSTER
Several weeks ago I wrote an opinion piece criticizing SEPTA and its operating policies and comparing some of the current practices to those of its predecessor, the PTC, in its last years of operation under the control of National City Lines, a holding company owned by General Motors, Firestone Tire and Rubber, Standard Oil of California and several smaller corporations providing bus service parts.
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Most of Springside School’s squash matches this season have ended in either lopsided wins or losses, but in last Wednesday’s non-league bout the Lions found themselves evenly-matched against Germantown Friends School.
Hosting the contest at the Germantown Cricket Club, the GFS Tigers were winners in the second, third and sixth positions, while visiting Springside prevailed at number one, four, five, and seven to pull out a 4-3 victory. Most of the individual matches extended past the three-game minimum, with three of them going to a fourth game and two others stretching into a fifth round. The outcome raised the Lions’ record to 6-4 overall, while Germantown Friends leveled out at 2-2.
Through the first two periods of last Thursday’s hockey game Chestnut Hill Academy forced visiting Upland Country Day School to play catch-up much of the time. Tying the match at 3-3 near the end of the second frame, Upland’s Yellow Jackets then left the Blue Devils behind with a four-goal flurry in the third period. CHA recouped a couple points in the closing minutes, but still suffered a 7-5 setback.
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Avenging a conference loss from the previous weekend, Chestnut Hill College romped to a 20-point lead in the first half and continued on to a 73-42 victory over the College of Notre Dame last Thursday night.
Individual achievement was also on the evening’s agenda as a game-high 20-point performance by senior guard Bethanne Castone brought her career total to exactly 1000 points. The Griffins bumped their record up to 5-3 within the Atlantic Women’s College Conference and to 8-5 overall, while Notre Dame’s Gators returned to Maryland with a mark of 2-2 in the AWCC.
An impressive third-quarter surge from Chestnut Hill Academy’s Blue Devils wasn’t enough to top visiting Inter-AC neighbors William Penn Charter School (12-9, 4-1 conf.) in a conference match-up Jan. 17. Although the Quakers saw their 17-point halftime lead dwindle to just five with one period remaining, the team held on to defeat CHA (6-12, 0-4 conf.) 46-39.
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Cory Broderick signed a national letter of intent to attend the College of William & Mary. Broderick, an All Inter-Ac pitcher for the Blue Devils is also an honor student and a soloist singer for the award-winning Hilltones. As a student-athlete, Broderick found the rigorous academic program and the challenging athletic program of William & Mary to be the best fit among his many suitors.
In his first season as head coach of the Germantown Friends School boys’ varsity team, Bill Dooley is enthusiastic about re-building the young squad, and promoting a basketball program that develops young men into strong team players and all-around athletes.
Selling
treasures since 1805
Hill family runs nation’s oldest auction house
by PETE BEISSER and LEN
LEAR
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Bea Freeman’s 25-minute drive from his Chestnut Hill home every morning is just a bit farther of a trip than his forefathers’ journey into the city for work. For 150 years, the Freeman family called Germantown their home – that is, until this sixth generation auctioneer moved his clan a little farther up in the Northwest.
Allens Lane Theater began its run of Psychopathia Sexualis by John Patrick Shanley this past week-end. Director Ryder Thornton and his talented actors obviously are taking great delight in staging a wacky comedy that is proud to be about everything and nothing.
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The popular yoga studio called Twisters at 813 Bethlehem Pike inErdenheim has bent way over backwards in an effort to attract even more members from Eastern Montgomery County by opening a second Twisters at 131 E. Butler Pike in Ambler.
The new facility, which opened in September, is on the second floor of a building that houses a Pennsylvania State Store on the ground floor and is across the street from the Ambler Movie Theater. The building’s exterior walls have been returned to their natural brick, and a new front facade has been added.
Chestnut Hill’s beautiful Episcopal Church of St. Martin-in-the Fields was the venue for the most recent installment of Philomel’s celebration of the 300th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin last Sunday afternoon. And Germantown’s Richard Raub added to his already impressive resume by conducting a thrilling concert performance of Puccini’s Le villi for the Academy of Vocal Arts Opera Theater.
•Cin Cin, 7838 Germantown Ave.: The only complaint I’ve ever heard about this Chestnut Hill gem is that it’s always so crowded for dinner that even customers with reservations may have to wait for a table, especially on weekends and holidays. But the Asian/French cuisine is well worth waiting for. Ambrosial dishes like the taro-crusted crabcake with Asia pear and micro-greens; roasted ginseng-plum duck with Shanghai baby bok choy and dates in a ginseng-plum emulsion; or the miso-glazed Chilean sea bass with shiitake mushrooms, fresh asparagus and sweet peppers will make you “epicurious” about how the chefs create such magic. I’d stand in line to watch them open a can of Pringles. Call 215-242-8800.
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