What are the odds a magazine would hold a short fiction contest receiving more than 300 submissions, and the first and second ...

Yvette Ousley used to be terrified of talking to strangers. Now, more than three decades into an award-winning journalism career, she's made a living out of it. "As a journalist, you have to have a ...

On Monday, April 8, 2024, the day of the solar eclipse, I started working at the Chestnut Hill Local. It was a day of promise and potentiality. Monday is our deadline day, so our then-interim ...

Tom Hemphill, long-time Chestnut Hill resident, former Naval reservist, advertising agency “magician” (according to his closest co-worker) and copywriter, political junkie, television director, ...

I cannot count all the times I have driven in Erdenheim and seen the sign on Bethlehem Pike announcing the Snyder School of Singing. “There must be a story there,” I assumed. As it turns out, there is ...

Several alums from area schools found themselves in the national spotlight last Sunday, when the University of North Carolina and Northwestern University played for the NCAA Division I championship in ...