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When Atiya Smith first announced her plan to open a women’s fashion boutique in Chestnut Hill, her mother, Claudia Averett, would not hear of it. But Smith did what many daughters do, and pushed forward anyway.
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by Stacia Friedman
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11/3/22
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Nearly three months after a catastrophic fire ripped through the historic Hiram Lodge in the heart of Chestnut Hill’s business district, destroying El Quetzal, the store is reopening.
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by Carla Robinson
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11/3/22
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City and fire officials gathered in Chestnut Hill last week to cut the ribbon on a $10 million renovation and expansion of the Engine 37 firehouse on Highland Avenue.
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by Carla Robinson
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11/2/22
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The City of Philadelphia’s Department of Licenses and Inspections is investigating Infinite Enterprises, LLC, a construction company that demolished a Chestnut Hill home last year.
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by Tom Beck
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10/27/22
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Chestnut Hill
35 E. Willow Grove Ave.
5BR 3.5BA, $300,555
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10/27/22
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Philadelphia is currently situated in fall’s sweet spot — the temperature has cooled, pumpkin spice has hit coffee shops, and leaves have started to change.
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by Elizabeth Estrada, WHYY
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10/27/22
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The City of Philadelphia’s Streets Department is about midway through the process of replacing the pedestrian scale street lights along Germantown Avenue with LED fixtures.
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by Carla Robinson
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10/20/22
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Get ready to dance to the music at “Light up the Tower!”
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10/20/22
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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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