Friends of the Wissahickon (FOW) will honor Ruth Ruth Pfeffer, an expert birder and bird photographer, during the group’s next Valley Talk scheduled for 6 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 18.
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10/13/22
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With the rainy remnants of Hurricane Ian finally offshore, the lads of Penn Charter traveled to Haverford School last Friday for their Inter-Ac League soccer debut.
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by Tom Utescher
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10/12/22
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After closing out the month of September at Lehigh University's 48th annual Paul Short Run, several area cross country teams were back in action last Saturday.
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by Tom Utescher
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10/12/22
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What on earth is a microbiologist like you doing in a place like this?
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by Len Lear
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10/6/22
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Mt. Airy author Janet Mason has done it again.
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by Len Lear
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10/6/22
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The girls of Springside Chestnut Hill Academy remained unbeaten in Inter-Ac League soccer last week, but it took an overtime goal.
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by Tom Utescher
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10/5/22
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Mount St. Joseph Academy's tennis team travelled to Gwynedd Mercy Academy on Sept. 26 to begin a key series within the Athletic Association of Catholic Academies.
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by Tom Utescher
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10/5/22
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In Athletic Association of Catholic Academies golf competition, Mount St. Joseph Academy remains on a roll.
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by Tom Utescher
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10/5/22
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Carey Stadium was the setting as Germantown Academy hosted an Inter-Ac League opening day soccer game last Friday.
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by Tom Utescher
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10/5/22
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Today there is no shortage of opinions about young people presumably wasting their time while glued to their phones. But one cannot help but be impressed by Karina Chan-van der Helm.
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by Len Lear
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9/29/22
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Chestnut Hill resident Nelson Diaz has chronicled his life in the autobiography “Not from Here, Not from There."
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by Len Lear
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9/29/22
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Host Springside Chestnut Hill Academy won the tennis matches at the top and bottom of the line-up sheet last Tuesday, but visiting Germantown Academy took the five bouts in between.
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by Tom Utescher
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9/28/22
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Top teams know how to close out a game, as the Mount St. Joseph Academy volleyball team found out on a Saturday morning visit to Plymouth Whitemarsh High School.
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by Tom Utescher
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9/28/22
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Mount St. Joseph Academy notched its first league win in field hockey last Thursday afternoon, defeating visiting Villa Joseph Marie by a score of 7-0.
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by Tom Utescher
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9/28/22
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Host Agnes Irwin led 3-1 at halftime in last Friday's Inter-Ac League soccer game, and as the second period wound down it looked like the Owls would coast to victory over Germantown Academy.
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by Tom Utescher
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9/28/22
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George Drakopoulos’s Malelani Cafe, located at the corner of Germantown Avenue and Pelham Road, was broken into last Sunday for the second time in about a month.
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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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It is no secret that the pandemic has been particularly hard on restaurants and other food-related businesses.
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by Len Lear
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9/22/22
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In their heyday, the “soaps,” those once ubiquitous daytime series, offered a steady paycheck for people in the film and television industry.
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by Stacia Friedman
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9/22/22
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