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Zoning committee: For now, Snowden can convert some retail space, but not all
Chestnut Hill developer Richard Snowden can convert some of his retail spaces over to residential use. more
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Three Mt. Airy businesses burglarized
High Point Cafe, Malelani Cafe and Evo Brick Oven Pizza in Mt. Airy were burglarized Aug. 3  and police continued to search for the thieves. more
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The front of the Cresheim Valley Apartments is under construction to make way for new steps, new sanitary sewers, a new key fob entry system, and more security cameras, according to SBG owner Phillip Pulley.
New city rules fuel backlog in landlord license renewals
New city requirements for lead testing has landlords across Philadelphia falling behind on renewing their rental licenses, some community advocates say. more
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A source in Mt. Airy says she had a check stolen, washed and the name “Sanai Parker” written on the payee line in the exact same handwriting that wrote “Sinai Parker” on a previous check shown to the Local.
More check fraud on the Hill
A Mt. Airy couple and a Springfield Township woman reached out to the Local last week to report checks they said were stolen from the USPS collection box in front of the Market Square Post Office. more
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Kathi Clayton was elected to serve a second term as president of the Chestnut Hill Community Association and has set three objectives for the organization.
Kathi Clayton returns for a second stint as CHCA board president
When Kathi Clayton first became president of the Chestnut Hill Community Association’s board in August 2020, Chestnut Hill looked a lot different than usual. In fact, the whole world did. more
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Meeting planned for Fred’s Mt. Airy Motors development site
East Mt. Airy Neighbors will host a community meeting at 7 p.m., Aug. 16, via Zoom, to discuss the townhouse development now being planned for the former site of Fred’s Mt. Airy Motors. more
Mercer (right) with her baked goods at a pop-up event at the Brown's ShopRite supermarket in Roxborough with her niece, Ryshawna Fisher. Mercer’s husband, Lyman, is on the left.
Mt. Airy baker's career is on the rise
Romona Mercer never attended culinary school or enrolled in cooking classes, but today the Mt. Airy resident is head baker and CEO of her own company, Aunt Verlea's Pound Cake Experience. more
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Chestnut Hill Hospital
Chestnut Hill Hospital to be sold to Temple-led consortium
Temple leads a regional consortium to purchase Chestnut Hill Hospital, deal to close by year's end. more
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Germantown's iconic Town Hall is the subject of new interest by developers.
Germantown Town Hall development a step closer to reality
The Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC) confirmed to the Local last week that it has a memorandum of understanding with West Powelton Development, owned by developer Anthony … more
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The USPS collection box in front of the Market Square Post Office in Chestnut Hill is the site of where at least a few of the Local's sources had mailed checks that were later washed and stolen. (Photo by Tom Beck)
Fed arrests for check fraud don't appear to include Chestnut Hill victims.
The indictment doesn’t mention checks being stolen from the 19118 or 19119 zip codes. The indictment does cite outdoor mailboxes in Lansdowne, Folsom, Southwest Philadelphia and Ellicott City, Md., as the four locations where checks were stolen. more
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Springfield Township commissioners voted to retain Pennoni associates, of Haddonfield, N.J., to oversee work on the former Tank Car site which will be redeveloped into a public park. The site had been used to repair and maintain railroad tank cars and contains hazardous waste that must be remediated.
Firm selected to oversee Tank Car Site demolition and abatement
Springfield Township Commissioners Eddie Graham, Susanna Ratsavong, Michael Maxwell and Jonathan Cobb constituted a quorum for the July workshop and business meetings in the absence of Commissioners … more
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Some residents of Winston Road say the glare of these new street lights are overwhelming, create glare and make them feel less safe. Photo by Edward Robinson
Hill residents: New lights get it wrong
An overwhelming majority of Chestnut Hill residents dislike the color and the brightness of the neighborhood’s new LED streetlights. more
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Residents of the Wood Norton apartment complex in Germantown protested outside their local post office on Saturday morning. Demonstrators said they had not received their mail for a month until a June 10 delivery. Here’s a link to the webpage: https://whyy.org/articles/germantown-residents-rally-for-better-usps-service/
Taking on the U.S. Postal Service
Residents have had longtime issues with the neighborhood’s only post office. They say mail has been lost, stolen, and incorrectly or slowly delivered. more
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Mt. Airy Day Cancelled
Mt. Airy Day, the annual festival celebrating the Northwest Philadelphia neighborhood, has been cancelled because of weather forecasts predicting rain and thunderstorms this weekend. more
Councilmember Cindy Bass hosted a Cresheim Valley Drive reopening ceremony to celebrate the completion of six months of construction on Fri. June 3. Joining her were (from left to right) John DiGiulio, community relations manager with the Philadelphia Water Department; PWD Commissioner Randy E. Hayman; Bass; Philadelphia Streets Department Chief Highway Engineer Steve Lorenz; PWD Engineer Shyam Thomas and C. Abbonizio, Construction Project Manager.
English ivy overwhelms trees and Wissahickon schist.
Man on a mission to rescue strangled trees
Nicolas Troyano is on a mission to remove the invasive ivy that is strangling so many huge trees in Chestnut Hill. more
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Letter: Bikes, not cars
I must gently take issue with the statement that “The tour is self-guided … so attendees will need a car.” more
Image courtesy of Pixabay.
Another check stolen from inside the Chestnut Hill post office
Another Chestnut Hill resident has been left reeling after having at least one check stolen after mailing it inside the Chestnut Hill post office on Germantown Avenue. more
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Earth Bread’s distinctive mural, created by Mural Arts Philadelphia, has always been a conversation starter.
A victim of the pandemic, Mt. Airy brewpub closing
The owners of Earth, Bread + Brewery will be closing the once-beehive-busy brewpub on July 1, just before its 14th anniversary.  more
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Cresheim Village Neighbors celebrated its 50th year of ‘Walk & Talk’, the neighborhood’s big annual multi-block party this past weekend. Topping off the event was the "crowning" of its most senior - and spry - neighbor, Betty Trout, who will be 97 this August.
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