March
9, 2006 Issue
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March
9, 2006 Issue
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City closes
Water Tower Rec Center due to lead paint On Thursday, March 2, the city announced that it was closing the Water Tower Recreation Center at 209 E. Hartwell Lane immediately in response to discovery of damaged and chipped lead paint at the center.
Property
Proposal raises concerns
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Springside School alumna and Chestnut Hill native Lucy Ross just completed a highly successful sophomore squash season at Hobart/William Smith College.
Losing just one match this winter at the number five spot for the Herons, Ross won her last seven bouts of the 2005-2006 campaign and helped William Smith end the season by capturing the Walker Cup at the College Squash Association Team Championships. The Walker Cup is awarded to the first-place team in the C Flight, or third division, at the CSA tournament, and Ross was one of the winners as the Herons defeated Amherst College in the final round, 6-3.
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How do you make life work for a two-year-old Collie-Australian Shepherd mix when, because of choices you’ve made, everything in his life either changes or disappears? It wasn’t easy, and it took a year, but I think we’ve finally done it.
When deciding, after an early retirement, to move from a big house with a yard in a quiet Mt. Airy neighborhood to a busy apartment complex in Virginia Beach, Odin gave up a lot: the other human and feline members of his “pack,” ample inside and outside space to spread out in and guard as his own, a coterie of canine and human friends, his favorite park (Pastorius Park) and swimming hole (near Valley Green Inn), familiar walking routes, a climate more suitable to his coat and body chemistry, and the groomer and veterinarian he had come to know and trust.
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In a few weeks, spring will finally be upon us. You know what that means? Elections and home improvement. This year I think I have found a way to combine the two of them
Springtime to the college student means golf Frisbee, studying outside, driving with the windows down, trips to the beach. We hope that our post-college years will be the same or have similar thrills. But beware. Whether you have your own home or apartment or are living with the ‘rents, there is a monsterous thought out there that probably has yet to flit across your now-thousands-of-dollars worth of a brain, Spring Cleaning.
Rookie home buyers will have an easier time finding their first home when they understand how to work with a real estate sales associate and what information they need to have on hand prior to shopping.
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As you drive or walk through Chestnut Hill’s tree-lined streets, you will see houses of many different types of architectural designs. Everything from 18th century colonial - one of the oldest houses in Chestnut Hill, dating to the 1840s, is located at 8220 Germantown Avenue - to designs by contemporary architects Louis Kahn and Robert Venturi, with many others in-between. A number of the houses built in the late 1890s and early 1900s have been remodeled, some quite extensively. A few very large homes have been demolished, especially during the Depression and World War II. Those houses required extensive, expensive maintenance and large staffs of servants - maids, cooks, butlers, chauffeurs, gardeners, nursemaids, etc.
During a typical remodel, a homeowner’s temper can flare, with the addition of the dust, noise and of having a crew working in the home for most of the day.
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