June 14, 2007 Issue                                                     

Local News

The busy 8500 block of Germantown Avenue still has its mainstay shops, but several significant changes promise to transform its character this summer. One of those changes is the recent departure of Color Me Mine from 8524 Germantown Ave. Chico’s Clothing, just three doors down, will be leaving the Avenue soon, also. (Photo by Erin Vertreace)

Summer changes in store for Avenue block
by KRISTIN PAZULSKI

If you are strolling along the 8500 block of Germantown Avenue, don’t be surprised if you find that some of the shops you’re passing are unfamiliar.

LUPZ chooses new co-chair, discusses Citibank
by KRISTIN PAZULSKI

At the Land Use Planning and Zoning committee meeting last Thursday, June 7, the only official business was the recommendation of a new co-chair, though members discussed the designs of the new Citibank branch and LUPZ’s involvement with Chestnut Hill Hospital’s master planning.

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Fiction & Poetry Edition Special Section

Beauregard
by LEE W. DOTY

On the last day Claire Prescott saw her mother-in-law alive, she had found Dorothy sitting by herself at the kitchen table. She’d just finished snapping off the heads of Claire’s dozen, freshly baked gingerbread men. She probably had first pried loose the eyes, then broken the necks, and finally popped the smiling faces into her mouth, leaving twelve little bodies to finish cooling on the cookie sheet. Claire reminisced about that sad, funny scene, almost a year old now, and sensed there was a reason she was recalling that day.

Detente
by DEIDRA GREENLEAF ALLAN

I chose this retreat to be alone,

but found my cabin came with a tenant.

The first night I heard him bumping