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by Will McQuillan Next summer, Chestnut Hill United Church will offer a one-week TransCamp for transgender, gender expansive, and non-binary children and youth. “All kids need a safe place where they can feel honored, celebrated, and affirmed. The world can be a tough place for [queer] children,” said Rev. Linda Noonan, Senior Pastor at Chestnut […]

by Brendan Sample While feelings of happiness and joy may not inherently go hand-in-hand with a deadly muscular disease, one Flourtown resident has been able to look on the bright side of life despite being paralyzed from the neck down. Since the age of 22, 60-year-old David Murray has been living with distal myopathy, which […]

by Pete Mazzaccaro The Chestnut Hill Local’s Associate Publisher Larry Hochberger announced last week that he is resigning from the Local next month to take a new job at a weekly newspaper company in Ithaca NY. That announcement made via a letter of resignation to the Chestnut Hill Local’s Board of Directors indicated his last […]

by Sue Ann Rybak Rev. Mark Plaushin, a priest at Our Mother of Consolation, was placed on administrative leave on July 16, following an allegation of sexual abuse. In a statement by The Philadelphia Archdiocese Office of Communications and read to Our Mother of Consolation [OMC] parish by Michael Murray, assistant provincial for the Wilmington-Philadelphia […]

by Becca Porter Have you ever wondered about the groups of people walking around Germantown Avenue and Ardleigh Street every summer with blindfolds and canes? These clusters of people are not visually impaired – they are learning to assist the visually impaired by walking several miles in their shoes in a simulated exercise to experience […]

by Sue Ann Rybak At its peak, Wayne Junction and its surrounding neighborhood was an industrial hub. Recent years have been less than kind to the area – many of its factories are empty and others were razed by the city leaving behind weedy, vacant lots. The fortunes of Wayne Junction are now set to […]

by Christina Grierson Springside Chestnut Hill Academy alumna Avery Nunn has dedicated her summer to running across America in an effort to both raise awareness about cancer and raise money to help those affected by the disease. Through a Facebook advertisement, Nunn was introduced to the Ulman Cancer Fund’s 4K For Cancer and upon further […]

by Brendan Sample As the Upper Northwest Draft Plan for the Philadelphia2035 initiative nears its deadline for public comments, local community leaders are urging residents to submit their comments on the plan before September 4. Lori Salganicoff, Chestnut Hill Conservancy Executive Director, Joyce Lenhardt, Vice President of the Chestnut Hill Community Association’s Physical Division, and […]