Philadelphia Police are on a hunt for a man who sexually assaulted a 71-year-old Mt. Airy woman in her home on the 7400 block of Devon Street Thursday afternoon around 3:30 p.m.
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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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Joey Novick is a stand-up comic who tells a hilarious seven-minute story (you can see it on YouTube) about how he had a property line problem after moving from New York City to Flemington, NJ.
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by Len Lear
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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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There are 100 new units of housing in two separate developments coming soon to Mt. Airy, both of which are just off the commercial corridor of Germantown Avenue.
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by Tom Beck
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9/21/22
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It’s not every day that a municipality condemns land to preserve open space. But the Springfield Township Board of Commissioners did just that on Sept. 14.
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by Betsy Wallace
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9/21/22
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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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For most of us, it's easy to take a flush toilet for granted.
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by Len Lear
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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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Mt. Airy is perfect for Porchfest, and Tim Osborne knows it.
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by Kristin Holmes
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9/14/22
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Mt. Airy's much-praised racial diversity skipped over the issue of class, says author Abby Perkiss.
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by Len Lear
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9/14/22
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The Louisiana Dance Party event starts with a beginner dance lesson at 7:30 p.m.
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9/14/22
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When Flo Messier became the supervisor of the mental health unit for the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office in 2018, she told me it was her “dream job.”
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by Len Lear
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9/8/22
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There is an old saying in publishing that you should “write what you know,” and Mt. Airy author and social science researcher Lynn Gregory is an exemplar of that maxim.
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by Len Lear
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9/8/22
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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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When Britt Reyes and her team were looking for a space to house the Philadelphia stop on their international exhibit showcasing the work of Banksy, they had plenty of choices.
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by Tom Beck
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9/7/22
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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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I am not a jazz aficionado, but when I heard lifelong Germantown resident Monnette Sudler play the guitar in October of 2014 at one of Woodmere Art Museum's Friday Night Jazz series, I was blown away.
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by Len Lear
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9/1/22
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