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Residents and
civic leader fight back after drive-by hits street
Residents of East Mount Airy came out in force at a community meeting to discuss the drive by shooting on July 3 that left two people shot and littered the 200 block of East Durham Street with bullets. Much of the neighbors’ anger and focus was concentrated on landlord Mark Ricketts. Ricketts is the owner of 228 E. Durham St., the residence of the two people believed to be at the center of the shooting. According to Vernon Price, administrator for Councilwoman Donna Reed Miller and a longtime resident of the immediate vicinity, the occupants of 228 E. Durham St. and the occupants of 248 E. Sydney St. were involved in an altercation at the Sedgwick train station that escalated into the shooting hours later. The shooting wounded Leonard Brown, 19 of the 200 block of E. Sydney St. and Kory Backus, 26, who was reportedly visiting Brown from Delaware.
Chestnut Hill
Hospital is ready for renovation
Chestnut Hill Hospital is gettingready to demolish an 85-year-old building to make way for a modern facility. The demolition of Laughlin Hall and the construction of a new four-story wing, an addition to the cancer-treating radiation oncology center and a parking garage are all part of the hospital’s 1991 master plan. Hospital officers will present the details of the plan at the Chestnut Hill Community Association’s Development and Review Committee meeting on Tuesday, July 18. The city has already granted the hospital permission to begin removing materials from Laughlin Hall in preparation for demolition, said the hospital’s Chief Operating Officer Jonathan Nalli at the July 6 Land Use and Planning Committee meeting. The demolition is anticipated to begin in September, though the hospital still needs to obtain its demolition permit.
Mount Airy
USA to save 100-year-old bridge
The train trestle that spans Germantown Avenue at the border of Chestnut Hill and Mount Airy is expected to change ownership and be placed in the hands of Mount Airy USA and possibly be used as a part of the proposed Cresheim Bike Trail. The 103-year-old bridge, was part of a six-and-a-half-mile rail track called the Fort Washington Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad that began running on July 30, 1893, according to The Chestnut Hill and Fort Washington Branches, an information booklet compiled by the Philadelphia Chapter of the Pennsylvania Railroad Technical and Historical Society. The rail is no longer operational.
In appointing new coaches for its varsity basketball and soccer teams, Chestnut Hill Academy appears to have hit the “Mark.” Wynnewood resident Mark Weinmann, 36, is taking over the helm of the soccer program, while CHA athletic director Mark Burke, a 1986 graduate of the school, is taking on the additional task of coaching the basketball squad. Weinmann, a Philadelphia native like Burke, attended St. Joseph’s Prep and went on to play Division I soccer at Boston College, where he earned a degree in English. After spending some time in Germany, he worked for Anheuser Busch in St. Louis before returning to the Philadelphia area.
Mount
splits with Norristown, Cheltenham During the regular basketball season, Mount St. Joseph Academy would be more likely to struggle against Cheltenham High School than against Norristown, but with out-of-town tournaments taking players away from all of the teams in the Hatboro Horsham Summer League, the results of last week’s games against these two rivals weren’t easy to predict.
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Local LifeSpring
Mill Café: food from traveling humanitarian
The only problem with writing about Michele Haines is that there’s not enough space to list everything that makes her special. Michele, 64, born in Paris, was a United Nations translator before getting married and moving to northwest Philadelphia, where she taught Spanish and anthropology at Germantown Friends School for seven years. (She was also a doll maker.)
Zoo
guests learn compassion, thanks to Hill ‘docent’
This is the 12h in an ongoing series of articles by Paula M. Riley on Chestnut Hill volunteers.
Mt.
Airy duo, making beautiful music, appear bound for stardom
“Hey there pretty darling, do you want to go for a
ride?” Annual police, firefighters and postal workers picnic is July 19 It’s the middle of summer and the Chestnut Hill Community Association is holding once again its annual celebration and picnic honoring police officers, firefighters and postal workers.
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