For 12 years, Allen "Zak" Zaklad, 80, has been leading free tai chi workouts several days a week for anyone who shows up at Ned Wolf Park in West Mt. Airy.
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by Len Lear
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9/1/22
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Haitian Catholic priest and accountant the Rev. Joseph Philippe recently visited the First United Methodist Church of Germantown, hoping to add support to the establishment of a public bank.
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by Constance Garcia-Barrio
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9/1/22
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Lately, the news cycle can seem like a constant drum beat of physical and emotional trauma.
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by Stacia Friedman
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9/1/22
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The second annual Jabali Jungle event in Germantown celebrated plant and flower shops, and urban farms owned by people of color.
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9/1/22
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After losing nine seniors off the 2020 soccer roster, Mount St. Joseph Academy has fewer gaps to fill this fall, missing five players who graduated from the 2021 team.
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by Tom Utescher
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8/31/22
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In terms of the personnel on the roster, Springside Chestnut Hill Academy's field hockey squad looks to be the strongest it's been during the tenure of head coach Emilee Ehret.
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by Tom Utescher
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8/31/22
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The Mount St. Joseph Academy tennis team looks to extend its reign in the Athletic Association of Catholic Academies this fall, having won its seventh straight league championship last fall.
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by Tom Utescher
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8/31/22
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Longtime Mt. Airy resident Penka Slavova is starting her seventh year as director of the International Student Program at Germantown Friends School.
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by Len Lear
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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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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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There are going to be a number of new faces on Mount St. Joseph Academy's varsity field hockey squad this fall, since the team graduated no fewer than 11 seniors from the 2021 roster.
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by Tom Utescher
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8/24/22
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Mount St. Joseph Academy runners have been on a roll in recent years.
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by Tom Utescher
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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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More than four decades ago, Hattie Williams was given one of the most valuable gifts a person could receive — a house.
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by Len Lear
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8/18/22
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This summer, Norwood-Fontbonne Academy and Chestnut Hill College formalized a longstanding agreement between the two institutions and established a partnership.
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8/18/22
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Heather Gray is a sweet and soft-spoken Chestnut Hill resident who left her job in June as the Chestnut Hill Community Association's director of marketing and communications to work for Comcast.
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by Len Lear
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8/18/22
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I have had the good fortune to interview many authors over the years, but until I met Otto Reichert-Facilides last week, I had never met one who has been working on their book for almost 80 years.
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by Len Lear
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8/18/22
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We first learned about Arthur Cavaliere 10 years ago after the Roxborough native and 1998 Central High School graduate opened In Riva restaurant at 4116 Ridge Ave. with business partner Mark Sherman.
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by Len Lear
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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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