August 17, 2006 Issue
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Local News...Cunningham
Piano Co. plays again
The silky black and white keys play a tune as fine as if the piano was a day old. The wood gleams from its latest polish, and the piano’s elegant sound echoes through the expanse of the second-floor showroom. Rich Galassini, sales manager for the Cunningham Piano Co. in Germantown, played on a Cunningham vertical piano after Doris Reber, the company president, politely declined
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the bank goes on … Despite the Zoning Board of Adjustment hearing that could once again have halted work on the new Commerce Bank branch at 8600 Germantown Ave., the bank confidently installed large “Commerce Bank coming soon” signage along the plywood wall surrounding the semi-demolished building.
The
Corner Deli dilemna: A case against blight
On any given morning, Sheldon Kilby can witness his neighbors getting in their cars to drive to work, hurrying their children out the door, straightening book bags and double checking for lunches and house keys. The 100 block of East Hortter Street in Mount Airy, where Kilby has lived for the last 11 years, is remarkable only in that it is completely ordinary. Most of the two-story row houses are marked with worn wooden banners displaying the house numbers dead center on the front of the brick edifice. People wash their cars in the street. Children play on the sidewalks and the porches. Neighbors hang out on the steps talking loudly and laughing with abandon. A blue, painted brick house at the end of the block stands out all the more so as the rest of the houses blend together. That is the street that Kilby moved to and that is the neighborhood he hopes to see each morning. But for years, the morning mélange was tainted by the sounds and anticipation of the trouble gathering at the other end of his street.
City
bans “8-sheet” billboards An agreement between the Philadelphia City Solicitor’s office and outdoor advertising companies will removethe city’s approximately 800 small billboards called eight-sheets. Local civic organizations, however, are concerned about what will happen to the larger billboards. Dixon
land to stay in family Although Fairmount Park offers a stunning natural escape from the city’s concrete and asphalt landscape, there is another scenic treasure nestled right outside the city’s limits.
Exec
committee passes fund reform, moves to streamline zoning review What was perhaps the most substantial item passed by the Executive Committee of the Chestnut Hill Community Association received the least amount of comment during a frequently heated, two-hour meeting on Thursday evening, Aug. 10. |
