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Cindy Bass, first elected to represent city council’s 8th District in 2012, is facing her first serious challenger in this year’s Democratic primary. She said she’s not worried.
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by Tom Beck and Carla Robinson
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3/22/23
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Erika Almiron, a Germantown resident who first ran for City Council at-large in 2019, intends to build a bigger coalition of voters who resemble “the whole city.”
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by Tom Beck
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3/22/23
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A three-alarm inferno destroyed the historic OMC parish school on Tuesday.
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Carla Robinson
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3/21/23
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Anderson-Oberman reported gathering 3,812 signatures – more than five times the minimum of 750 required to run for office in a councilmanic district.
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by Tom Beck
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3/16/23
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The city's Zoning Board of Adjustment denied a variance that would allow the owner of the historic Vanna Venturi House to build an accessory dwelling unit on the property.
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by Tom Beck
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3/16/23
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Less than five months after resigning as president of the Springfield Township Board of Commissioners, Eddie Graham resigned from the board altogether on Monday afternoon as an act of protest.
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by Tom Beck
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3/8/23
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Northwest Philadelphia area floral and landscape designers were among the winners announced earlier this week at the PHS Philadelphia Flower Show, which runs through Sunday, March 12.
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3/8/23
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Colin Delaney was once just a happy-go-lucky freshman at Springfield Township High School in Wyndmoor. That came to a shocking end in February of 2014 when he suddenly became very sick.
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by Len Lear
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3/8/23
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It may seem to many of you that the Chestnut Hill Community Association’s Annual Appeal has raised several million dollars. Not exactly, says the publisher.
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by John Derr, Publisher, The Chestnut Hill Local
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3/8/23
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Amir Staten desperately wanted to become a Morehouse man. And then on Friday, the Morehouse email landed. It led to a joyous viral video.
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by Kristin Holmes
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3/2/23
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Conflict over Springfield Township police officers' use of the Blue Lives Matter flag in their union’s logo is playing out in a pending court case, frustrating residents who want to talk.
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by Tom Beck
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3/2/23
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Woodmere Art Museum has been awarded a $750,000 grant for the Frances M. Maguire Hall for Art and Education redevelopment project in Chestnut Hill.
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by Tom Beck
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3/1/23
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Andrew Wolf, the Springside Chestnut Hill Academy teacher who was arrested in October 2021 on charges related to child pornography, was sentenced to nearly 39 years in federal prison on Thursday.
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by Tom Beck and Carla Robinson
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2/24/23
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The 8th Councilmanic District’s three-term incumbent Councilmember Cindy Bass announced her re-election campaign at Dare to Imagine Church on Saturday to a mostly packed audience of supporters.
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by Tom Beck
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2/24/23
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Seth Anderson-Oberman, a challenger to incumbent 8th District Councilperson Cindy Bass, formally announced his campaign in Mt. Airy.
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by Tom Beck
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2/19/23
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Chestnut Hill, a neighborhood known as an enclave for the privileged, was a refuge for Rudy Miles at what some might call an unexpected time.
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by Kristin Holmes
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2/19/23
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Chestnut Hill resident and entrepreneurial success story Judee von Seldeneck has pledged a $10,000 donation to the Chestnut Hill Community Association.
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by Carla Robinson
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2/19/23
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A scrappy group of young preservationists has reached an agreement to buy and start restoring Lynnewood Hall, the 110-room Gilded Age mansion in Elkins Park.
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by Carla Robinson
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2/8/23
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A bulldozer showed up in the yard of a historic Chestnut Hill residence last week, alarming preservationists as well as neighbors.
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by Carla Robinson
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2/1/23
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It’s a Philly thing. Those four words are all around town these days. Printed on T-shirts, sweatshirts, flags and banners, the phrase coincides with the Eagles' run to Super Bowl LVII.
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by Paul Mercurio
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2/1/23
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