"Education is a passport to the future." It's more than just tests and textbooks, rather, it's information and life skills that draw out passion and potential in ourselves.
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by Asher Dahlgren
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7/1/21
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The letter by Marci Mowery and Tim Herd in the 24 June Local is welcome and important. The heading encapsulates its significance.
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6/30/21
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As go our parks and public spaces, so goes our health and wellbeing.
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by Tim Herd and Marci Mowery
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6/25/21
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A family fantasy from Scorsese? What's going on here?
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by Bill Wine
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6/25/21
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Dear CHCC: It’s summer, I am vaccinated and looking for something to do. Any thoughts?
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By Rona Sisson
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6/24/21
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Ellen Van Pelt Wells was editor of the Chestnut Hill Local from 1958 to 1972. She passed away August 14, age 93. This column, from June 22, 1972, was one of the last she wrote for the Local, signed with her customary E.V.P.W.
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6/22/21
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A mission: impossible to resist.
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by Bill Wine
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6/18/21
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I have been going into the Local’s office on Tuesday mornings every week since March 2020 when the city first imposed stay-at-home orders for residents and businesses. At the time, Local …
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by Pete Mazzaccaro
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6/17/21
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Despite sporting a title that makes it sound like a refreshingly forthright slasher flick, this sprawling epic is actually a thought-provoking morality fable about manifest destiny and man-first destiny.
Maybe it’s true that no man is an island, …
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by Bill Wine
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6/11/21
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A colleague of mine has a favorite saying for whenever he hears of anything that rubs up against the norms we take for granted in a free society. It can be anything from a wrongful arrest to the …
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by Pete Mazzaccaro
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6/10/21
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Make sure you know your own story, and also know that right now, there are certainly options for you despite how overwhelming a job search may feel.
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6/4/21
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It’s a bloody musical! That's not a complaint, but a literal description of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” (2007), director Tim Burton's movie version of Stephen Sondheim's unusual Broadway hit.
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by Bill Wine
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6/4/21
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When Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch cooked up the Fox News Network in 1996, Ailes decided to subtitle the network “Fair and Balanced.” As marketing gimmicks go, it was clever. It spoke to …
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6/3/21
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Remember that thing people used to do called vacation? It’s time to get back on the road or in the air.
With Covid-19 rates coming under control and hopes that the U.S. might be able to …
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by Pete Mazzaccaro
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5/28/21
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Debuting screenwriter Diablo Cody won the Oscar for her screenplay's ear-tickling, smart-mouthed, stylized-but-honest dialogue, and the fine ensemble cast has a field day with it, especially Page as the shoot-from-the-lip teen and voiceover narrator.
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by Bill Wine
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5/28/21
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For those who care about libraries, about literacy, education, lifelong learning and the lost year that Philadelphia school children have experienced, now is the time to raise our voices.
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by Jan LeSuer
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5/27/21
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Reports of animals in distress alone in parked vehicles are on the increase. A vehicle can turn into hell on wheels as time runs out for the innocent victim of carelessness. Leaving your …
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5/26/21
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We represent the West Highland Neighbors and ask that the record be corrected regarding a number of items in the Chestnut Hill Local’s “Streetscape,” column of May 20.
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by Denis Lucey and Ross Pilling
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5/26/21
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Since the time of your article about our Whitemarsh Art Center's operations during the pandemic (“ Great pandemic education rewards for local arts agency ,” Oct. 8, 2020), many doors have …
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5/26/21
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As if further proof were needed that we live in the Golden Age of Animation, along comes “The Princess and the Frog.”
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by Bill Wine
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5/21/21
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