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The Chestnut Hill community rallied to thank the firefighters responsible for extinguishing the blaze that last week engulfed the Hiram Lodge building at 8425-27 Germantown Ave.
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8/24/22
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Chestnut Hill
410 E. Gravers Ln.
4BR 2.5BA, $775,000
609 Saint Andrews Rd.
4BR 5.5BA, $3 million
7826 Devon St.
3BR 1BA, $375,000
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8/18/22
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After a five-month search for a new executive director, the Chestnut Hill Business Association has finally found its new leader in recently appointed executive director Courtney O’Neill.
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by Tom Beck
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8/17/22
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In response to neighborhood complaints about glare caused by the city’s new LED street lights, Deputy Streets Commissioner Richard Montanez has agreed to replace all the high intensity lamps.
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by Carla Robinson
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8/11/22
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Chestnut Hill developer Richard Snowden can convert some of his retail spaces over to residential use.
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by Tom Beck
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8/11/22
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New city requirements for lead testing has landlords across Philadelphia falling behind on renewing their rental licenses, some community advocates say.
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by Tom Beck
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8/11/22
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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.
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by Tom Beck
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8/11/22
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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.
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by Tom Beck
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8/11/22
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Temple leads a regional consortium to purchase Chestnut Hill Hospital, deal to close by year's end.
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by Carla Robinson
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8/9/22
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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.
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by Tom Beck
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8/4/22
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An overwhelming majority of Chestnut Hill residents dislike the color and the brightness of the neighborhood’s new LED streetlights.
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by Carla Robinson
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7/20/22
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Mt. Airy Day, the annual festival celebrating the Northwest Philadelphia neighborhood, has been cancelled because of weather forecasts predicting rain and thunderstorms this weekend.
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6/10/22
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City Councilmember Cindy Bass committed to contributing capital funding to move pickleball courts from the Water Tower Recreation Center during a Monday night meeting and said that her office would work to create more pickleball courts across the 8th Councilmanic District.
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by Tom Beck
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6/1/22
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The 65 children brushed the five animals in three separate half-hour sessions, and gave them carrot treats in the playground.
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by Barbara Sherf
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5/18/22
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June 15 will mark the end of the city’s piloting period for new hours, which started in March.
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by Tom Beck
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5/18/22
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Thursday’s dinner was the first event of an effort to fund components of a Master Plan developed to improve the recreation center and grounds now and in the coming years.
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by Mary Pomichter, chair of the “Light Up the Tower” committee
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5/18/22
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Homeowners in the Northwest are grappling with the potential impact of increases as high as 30 to 40 percent - and in some cases even more.
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by Carla Robinson and Tom Beck
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5/18/22
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“Why do we still need libraries now that almost every kid has a virtual Google library in their pocket?”
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by Len Lear
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5/12/22
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The Gravers Lane train station, the first building in Chestnut Hill to be placed on the National Register of Historic Places, was in grave danger when the Historical Society took it on.
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by Shirley Hanson
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5/12/22
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Running in this year’s Democratic primary are six-term incumbent Pam DeLissio, who for the past 12 years has served Roxborough and parts of Montgomery County, and Tarik Khan, a nurse who made a name for himself getting more than 500 Philadelphians vaccinated during the pandemic.
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by Tom Beck
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5/4/22
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