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Oct. 31 isn’t just Halloween but also the ancient Irish holiday of Samhain (pronounced “SOW-un”), marking the end of the harvest and when the spirits of ancestors are close.
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10/22/26
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From 2011 to 2018, Kristin Tracy Porter directed the Disability Resource Center at Chestnut Hill College. What she overcame before getting the position at CHC is the stuff of legends.
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by Len Lear
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10/22/26
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Jordon Ross Weinhold will help to celebrate Halloween with the theatrical adaption of Washington Irving’s 1820 short story, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 23 and 24, and at 3 p.m., Oct. 25.
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by Len Lear
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10/22/26
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Family Promise of Philadelphia is hosting its 25th Empty Bowl Dinner on Oct. 28 from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at William Penn Charter School.
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by Maggie Dougherty
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10/22/26
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Local resident Scott Bandura was called up to Major League Baseball on Sept. 13 by the San Francisco Giants, going 1-for-3 with a walk and scoring a run in his first game.
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by Chris Hetrick
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10/22/26
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When the late Bill Giles was the Philadelphia Phillies’ director of business operations in the early 1970s, part of his role was to mount nonbaseball entertainment that would draw people to Veterans Stadium.
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by Clark Groome
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10/22/26
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In photographer Bob Brand’s world, there are three sorts of people: those who stay in place, those who go away from it, and those who go toward it.
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by Jeff Meade
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10/22/26
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Katey McGrath, vice president, director of operations, and partner at Elfant Wissahickon Realtors, has been selected for the National Association of Realtors 2027 Leadership Academy.
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10/15/26
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Meet Pebbles and Poppy, a brother and sister pair who are around six months old.
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10/15/26
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This week in Chestnut Hill Local history
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10/15/26
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“My purple silk pantsuit was covered in blood — my husband’s blood,” Byers’ wife Laurada wrote in her recently published memoir “Laurada - My Life of Adventure, Tragedy, and Purpose.”
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by Len Lear
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10/15/26
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Thelonious Sphere Monk (1917-1982) is a name that may not be familiar to some non-jazz buffs, but there was no musician quite like him.
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by Len Lear
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10/15/26
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Emi Wong Shing, a senior at Germantown Friends School, has been named the 2026-2027 Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate, and she is making it look easy.
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by Gregory C. Jackson
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10/15/26
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High Point Cafe at the Allen Lane Train Station is a popular meeting place for area residents. But from now until Nov. 1, it is also a place where you can see an exhibit by Chestnut Hill nature artist Richard Metz.
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by Len Lear
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10/15/26
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![“My father-in-law was visiting from New Zealand last week, and he couldn’t resist sitting for this photo ... May ‘Confirming Predictions’ [the late J. Seward Johnson’s sculpture on Germantown Avenue below Bethlehem Pike] have a long life in Chestnut Hill!”](https://alpha.creativecirclecdn.com/chestnuthilllocal/medium/20261013-141052-265-2038-image0.jpeg)
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10/15/26
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The West Mt. Airy Historic House Tour is returning for its third year on Oct. 18 from 12-4 p.m.
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by Maggie Dougherty
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10/15/26
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Mt. Airy resident Mario Zucca is a talented artist/illustrator who has done work for professional sports teams and corporations. He has recently been getting national media attention — but not for his artwork.
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by Len Lear
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10/14/26
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This week in Chestnut Hill Local history
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10/8/26
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Who would have thought a film about baseball’s blackest mark could be so compelling?
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by Baird Standish
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10/8/26
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Life coach Jennifer Schelter, one of the area’s most prominent proponents of yoga, will be undertaking a new adventure at the Philadelphia Zoo.
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by Len Lear
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10/8/26
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