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Jenks School is celebrating Reading Promise Week with an opening reception for the school’s new Community Collaboration Center and School Library.
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10/12/22
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The following crime report is for crimes reported in Chestnut Hill and Mt. Airy for the period from Sept. 19-25.
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9/29/22
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Questions remain about whether ongoing construction at the site had been conducted with required city permits.
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by Tom Beck
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9/28/22
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When Brendan Dwyer was four years old, his mom, Marianne, became the director of Teenagers, Inc., a nonprofit that aims to connect teens to the world through community service.
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by Len Lear
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9/22/22
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According to city statistics, Philadelphia hit 1,250 opioid overdose deaths last year – a situation that Jose Benitez, CEO of Prevention Point Philadelphia (PPP), knows all too well.
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by Len Lear
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9/22/22
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The following crime report is for crimes reported in Chestnut Hill and Mt. Airy for the period from Sept. 5-19.
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9/22/22
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Alphonso “Al” Lassiter, 72, has a perpetually smiling face that has brightened up the Chestnut Hill Weavers Way market at the cash register and around the store for the past 12 years.
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by Len Lear
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9/22/22
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Questions still remain about the new streetlights that went on residential streets early this summer
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by Carla Robinson
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9/14/22
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One of the victims had to be transported by helicopter to Einstein Hospital.
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by Tom Beck
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9/14/22
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If Chestnut Hill’s original developers Henry Houston and George Woodward were alive today, they wouldn’t be building opulent estates with carriage houses.
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by Stacia Friedman and Carla Robinson
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9/7/22
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The following crime report is for crimes reported in Chestnut Hill and Mt. Airy for the two-week period from Aug. 22 to 28.
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9/1/22
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Citing a need for more discussion, the Chestnut Hill Community Association board voted unanimously on Thursday to postpone a final vote on whether to recommend four of nine variance requests.
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by Tom Beck
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8/31/22
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After this beautiful photo was captured by Chestnut Hill mail carrier Jen Hasson, the Local checked in with the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education in Roxborough to find out more.
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8/25/22
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Dr. Delvin M. Dinkins was inspired to pursue a career in education by the teachers who guided him through school.
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by Clark Groome
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8/25/22
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The following crime report is for crimes reported in Chestnut Hill and Mt. Airy for the period from Aug. 15-21.
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8/25/22
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Days before fire ripped through the historic Hiram Lodge on Germantown Avenue last week, local artist Judy McCabe Jarvis had just captured the building in paint. It was a lucky accident, she said.
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by Len Lear
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8/25/22
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The legendary American “Jazz Age” author F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote, “There are no second acts in American lives.” Fitzgerald did not know Harry Groome.
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by Len Lear
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8/25/22
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Neighbors who attended City Councilmember Cindy Bass’ Zoom meeting last Tuesday because they are upset about the neighborhood’s glaring new streetlights got some reassurances.
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by Carla Robinson
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8/24/22
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A week after an early morning fire broke out in the heart of Chestnut Hill’s business district, destroying the historic Hiram Lodge, a representative for the owner said the group plans to rebuild.
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by Carla Robinson
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8/24/22
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