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Questions remain about whether ongoing construction at the site had been conducted with required city permits.
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by Tom Beck
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9/28/22
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Despite objections from the Chestnut Hill Community Association, Bowman Properties won city approval to trim the percentage of retail space in three of five properties.
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by Tom Beck
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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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9/22/22
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The Local is recruiting board members.
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9/22/22
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“I have received so many letters since Martha died about how she affected people's lives."
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by Len Lear
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9/22/22
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Jewish families around the region will begin observing the High Holidays at sundown Sept. 25, marking the holiest time of the year.
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9/22/22
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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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The following crime report is for crimes reported in Chestnut Hill and Mt. Airy for the period from Sept. 5-19.
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9/22/22
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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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The Chestnut Hill Community Association’s first annual Fall Frolic was a big hit on Thursday evening, drawing a crowd of at least 174 people to the Philadelphia Cricket Club.
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9/22/22
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Rick loses his idealism when he loses Ilsa amidst the chaos of World War II, opening a bar in neutral Casablanca to lick his wounds.
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9/22/22
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After overcoming Shipley School and George School in preseason scrimmages, the Springside Chestnut Hill Academy volleyball team had a different outcome against a third Friends Schools League squad.
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by Tom Utescher
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9/21/22
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As their early non-league field hockey games grew progressively more challenging, the Springside Chestnut Hill Academy Blue Devils found themselves in a real battle last Thursday.
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by Tom Utescher
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9/21/22
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For some time, the Penn Charter field hockey team has changed head coaches every one or two years, but now its looks like the Quakers may have found a mentor who will become a steady leader.
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by Tom Utescher
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9/21/22
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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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The Chestnut Hill Community Association won a major legal battle on Tuesday in its attempt to stop construction of a five story, 33-unit apartment complex where the old Sunoco station used to sit on …
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by Tom Beck
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9/15/22
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