Dr. Delvin M. Dinkins was inspired to pursue a career in education by the teachers who guided him through school.
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by Clark Groome
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8/25/22
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Days before fire ripped through the historic Hiram Lodge on Germantown Avenue last week, local artist Judy McCabe Jarvis had just captured the building in paint. It was a lucky accident, she said.
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by Len Lear
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8/25/22
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The legendary American “Jazz Age” author F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote, “There are no second acts in American lives.” Fitzgerald did not know Harry Groome.
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by Len Lear
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8/25/22
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More than four decades ago, Hattie Williams was given one of the most valuable gifts a person could receive — a house.
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by Len Lear
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8/18/22
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Heather Gray is a sweet and soft-spoken Chestnut Hill resident who left her job in June as the Chestnut Hill Community Association's director of marketing and communications to work for Comcast.
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by Len Lear
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8/18/22
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I have had the good fortune to interview many authors over the years, but until I met Otto Reichert-Facilides last week, I had never met one who has been working on their book for almost 80 years.
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by Len Lear
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8/18/22
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After a five-month search for a new executive director, the Chestnut Hill Business Association has finally found its new leader in recently appointed executive director Courtney O’Neill.
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by Tom Beck
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8/17/22
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When Kathi Clayton first became president of the Chestnut Hill Community Association’s board in August 2020, Chestnut Hill looked a lot different than usual. In fact, the whole world did.
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by Tom Beck
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8/11/22
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Romona Mercer never attended culinary school or enrolled in cooking classes, but today the Mt. Airy resident is head baker and CEO of her own company, Aunt Verlea's Pound Cake Experience.
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by Len Lear
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8/11/22
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Marge Sexton couldn’t imagine how she would survive after her 47-year-old son Ron committed suicide in 2015.
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by Len Lear
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8/4/22
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“The Way In; What a Hospice Chaplain Learned Living with Parkinson's, in Poetry and Prose” is a courageous, brutally candid revelation of Robinson’s own periodic rages.
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by Len Lear
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8/3/22
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The late comic Rodney Dangerfield used to say, “I'm getting so old that I could not blow out all of the candles on my latest birthday cake. The heat drove me back.”
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by Len Lear
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7/28/22
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Three local authors, one from Chestnut Hill and two from Mt. Airy, will discuss their books at a signing event on Thursday, July 28, 6 p.m., at Hilltop Books, 84 Bethlehem Pike.
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by Len Lear
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7/28/22
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Mt. Airy residents Doug Hirlinger and his wife, Keisha Hutchins Hirlinger are both musicians, but have not played together much - until now.
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by Rita Charleston
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7/28/22
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Act II Playhouse’s latest production is a tribute to Ethel Merman and Mary Martin, the equivalent of royalty on the Great White Way.
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by Rita Charleston
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7/28/22
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My Weight Loss and Lifestyle Support Group will meet monthly, the 3rd Wednesday of every month.
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by Carlie Kamnik
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7/20/22
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Lots of people enjoy Wissahickon Park and visit it often, but James Charnock is probably more enthusiastic than any other user of the park that traverses parts of Chestnut Hill and Mt. Airy.
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by Len Lear
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7/14/22
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"NBC Nightly News" reports on Good Samaritan barber in Germantown.
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by Len Lear
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7/7/22
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Chestnut Hill resident Noah Raven, whose last name already suggests a proclivity to help preserve wildlife, has started an initiative to save monarch butterflies.
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by Len Lear
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6/30/22
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