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Germantown's iconic Town Hall is the subject of new interest by developers.
Germantown Town Hall development a step closer to reality
The Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC) confirmed to the Local last week that it has a memorandum of understanding with West Powelton Development, owned by developer Anthony … more
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The USPS collection box in front of the Market Square Post Office in Chestnut Hill is the site of where at least a few of the Local's sources had mailed checks that were later washed and stolen. (Photo by Tom Beck)
Fed arrests for check fraud don't appear to include Chestnut Hill victims.
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. more
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Mt. Airy Day Cancelled
Mt. Airy Day, the annual festival celebrating the Northwest Philadelphia neighborhood, has been cancelled because of weather forecasts predicting rain and thunderstorms this weekend. more
City Councilmember Cindy Bass
Bass retains ward leadership as opponent’s bid for open ward falls short
Bass’s victory came on the heels of a Friday court ruling that ordered her to allow Cain and three other committeepeople who had challenged her control over the ward to participate in ward meetings.  more
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Chestnut Hill and neighboring Mt. Airy are seeing steep increases to their tax assessments. Photo by Carla Robinson
Homeowners hit with sudden and steep increases in property taxes
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. more
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The Green Street Monthly Meeting of Friends has pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years to assist Black homeowners in Germantown with issues related wills, deeds and titles.
Germantown Quaker group giving $500,000 in reparations
Recognizing that for most middle class Americans, home ownership is a primary source of wealth and stability, the congregation is focused on making sure their immediate Black neighbors are able to keep and maintain their properties.  more
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Ben Frasier III, new graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy.
Mt. Airy native graduates from the U.S. Naval Academy
Frazier was a member of the United States Naval Academy Drum and Bugle Corps and the Yard Patrol Squadron, where he served as Commodore and a member of the Brigade leadership.  more
Architectural rendering of a restored Sedgwick Theater facade.
More state funds for historic Sedgwick Theater 
State Sen. Art Haywood helped secure the $750,000 grant, a significant step toward the theatre group's ultimate goal of buying and restoring the entire building. more
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Weavers Way plans to restore the glass windows in the former Acme Grocery when it opens its new store at the corner of West Chelten Avenue and Morris Street.
Weavers Way announces a new store in Germantown
The Co-op has signed a lease for 328 W Chelten Avenue at the corner of Chelten Avenue and Morris Street, in the section of the neighborhood known as West Chelten. It expects to open the new store next summer. more
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Jockey Marlon St. Julien sits aboard Four On The Floor after winning the Grand Prairie Turf Challenge at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas, in this Monday, July 3, 2000, file photo. Black riders were atop 13 of the 15 horses in the first Kentucky Derby in 1875 and won 15 of the first 28 incarnations of the race. Kendrick Carmouche, on Saturday, May 1, 2021, will be the first Black Jockey in the Kentucky Derby since 2013 and just the fourth in the past century. (Jeffery Washington/Star-Telegram via AP, File)
Ebenezer Maxwell museum honors Black jockeys with Kentucky Derby party
What most people probably don't know is that the Derby was originally dominated by Black jockeys when it was first launched in 1875, the height of the Victorian era. more
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The Mt. Airy Day logo
Mt. Airy Day's return postponed due to weather
Yes, Mt. Airy Day is back - in June. more
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Phil Dawson
Phil Dawson makes the move to Mt. Airy
His new position at the Mt. Airy CDC, which he started in March, has the same title as his old one: executive director. But this time around, he’ll have a different set of responsibilities.   more
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State Rep. Chris Rabb speaks to a crowd celebrating the renaming of Allens Lane and the Allen Lane Train Station in honor of Bishop Richard Allen. Photo by Tom Beck
New state house district brings a competitive primary to Mt. Airy
The race for the 200th district, which contains all of Mt. Airy and West Oak Lane and a small sliver of Chestnut Hill south of Willow Grove Avenue, features the only two Democratic incumbents in Pennsylvania who were redistricted into the same district: Chris Rabb and Isabella Fitzgerald. more
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Mt. Airy cinematographer Abe Holtz shot footage for about 400 interviews with Holocaust survivors for the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History project, started by director Steven Spielberg.
Mt. Airy cinematographer on Holocaust Remembrance Day
In early 1996, Holtz began working with the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History project, which director Steven Spielberg started after the movie Schindler's List to document the experiences of Holocaust survivors. more
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Bettina Hoerlin looks through some of the 500 letters she discovered in an old suitcase. Hoerlin’s parents wrote the letters to each in the 1930s when they lived in Nazi Germany before escaping to the U.S.
A cache of love letters uncovers an amazing family story
Hoerlin, who served as Health Commissioner of Philadelphia and now lives in Center City, taught public health at the University of Pennsylvania and has been a visiting lecturer at Haverford College and Oxford University. more
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Jemille Duncan
Bass aide wins full scholarship funded by Bill Gates
The Multicultural Academy Charter School senior is just one of 300 award recipients across the United States. more
Long-time Mt. Airy resident Kathy Robinson, whose works are in the exhibit, has always been drawn to beeswax and the effects achieved by painting with it. Photo by Elliot Polinsky
The works of 23 local artists on exhibit in Mt. Airy
Chestnut Hill area resident and former public school teacher Frank Burd, who has written theater reviews for area newspapers and whose photos have appeared in the Local, is one of the participating artists. more
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Image courtesy of Pixabay.
Attempted robbery of mail carrier Mt. Airy
The incident comes on the heels of two arrests made by the Tredyffrin Police Department in December that were connected to mail fraud happening in Philadelphia. In those cases, the fraud involved thieves stealing checks from mailboxes.  more
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Azariah John Faith and his family, of Harrisburg, stayed in a local apartment thanks to Hosts for Hospitals. “Thank God for Hosts for Hospitals,” said mom, Savanna. “Azariah got the absolute best care in the Children's Hospital (of Philadelphia) Cardiac Care Unit.”
Hosting families in need for 22 years
“The older one is David … I can’t remember the other one’s name.”  more
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Hanna Gaffney, one of the stars now at Quintessence, is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, a teaching artist, dialect coach, makeup artist and sometime seamstress.
Great new renditions of Elizabethan dramas in Mt. Airy
"The Winter's Tale" is so wild it is unsurprising that few theaters are nervy enough to take it on. more
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