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Andy Thorne’s Allens Lane snowboard run

Andy Thorne of Chestnut Hill took advantage of the ample snow and a pile of stones at a construction site at the Allens Lane Art Center fields in Mount Airy…
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Personalizing grave monuments

Gallagher Memorials has been at the corner of Ivy Hill Road and Cheltenham Avenue, across from Holy Sepulcher Cemetery for more than 100 years. In that time, the use of…
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Downhill skiing in Conshohocken

Just outside the city’s northwest boundary, there’s downhill skiing.  Soldiers returning home after World War II joined together as the Wissahickon Ski Club to create their own micro version of…
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Upholsterer makes house calls

Bruce Levin, whose grandfather’s company, “Perfect Rubber Seat Cushion,” began manufacturing cushions in Tacony in 1935, continues the family tradition with his retail shop in Chestnut Hill, “The Perfect Stitch,”…