• MONTCO Careers – CCRES

    MONTCO Careers – CCRES

    CCRES is hiring professional staff to work in schools, in the home, and in the community as they help children and adults challenged by autism, mental illness, intellectual/developmental disabilities, and physical disabilities. CCRES joined up with the Chester County Intermediate Unit in 1999 to meet a need for behavioral health services for children in Chester…

  • Freedom Village at Brandywine Raises Over $1,300 for Alzheimer’s Association

    Freedom Village at Brandywine Raises Over $1,300 for Alzheimer’s Association

    Freedom Village at Brandywine  participated in the Alzheimer’s Association’s annual initiative, The Longest Day, on June 20, 2025, raising more than $1,300 to support awareness and research efforts for Alzheimer’s disease and all other forms of dementia. The Longest Day – held annually on the summer solstice, the day with the most light – shines…

  • New Middletown Hotel Being Built Just in Time for 2026 Tourists

    New Middletown Hotel Being Built Just in Time for 2026 Tourists

    A 107-room hotel and restaurant in Middletown is under construction in anticipation of the tourists that will be flocking to the area in 2026, writes Emma Dooling for Philadelphia Business Journal. The Drexel Hill firm Metro Philly Management is building the Hilton Garden Inn at 1278  W. Baltimore Pike. The 67,000 square-foot hotel is expected…

  • Haverford Man Loses $100,000 in Koi Fish to Power Outage

    Haverford Man Loses $100,000 in Koi Fish to Power Outage

    He spent 20 years taking care of 100 koi fish until the power outage from last week’s storm killed them all. The Havertown fish, valued at an estimated $100,000, died after the power failure deprived them of much-needed oxygen, writes Jadon George for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Tom East’s koi pond was praised by family and…

  • Newtown Square Seniors Relied on Each Other During 4-Day Power Outage

    Newtown Square Seniors Relied on Each Other During 4-Day Power Outage

    Residents of senior apartments in Newtown Square relied on their own wits and on each other to get through a four-day power outage that had them battling sweltering conditions after last week’s storm, writes Eva Andersen and Will Kenworthy for CBS Philadelphia. Power returned at 3 PM Monday to Newtown Towers, an apartment complex. The…

  • The Arc of Chester County’s Advocacy Efforts Inspire Action and Hope for Individuals with Disabilities and their Families

    The Arc of Chester County’s Advocacy Efforts Inspire Action and Hope for Individuals with Disabilities and their Families

    The Arc of Chester County remains at the forefront of advocacy for the rights, inclusion, and empowerment of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. With more than 70 years of dedicated service, the organization intensified its efforts in 2025, focusing on urgent legislative priorities at the federal, state, and local levels, and raising critical awareness…

  • Spanish Airline Iberia to Offer Philadelphia-Madrid Flights at PHL

    Spanish Airline Iberia to Offer Philadelphia-Madrid Flights at PHL

    The Spanish airline Iberia is warming up its investors to news that it will be coming on board at Philadelphia International Airport sometime in the next few years, with plans to add flights there, writes Emma Dooling for the Philadelphia Business Journal.  The Spain-based airline is taking advantage of a new PHL incentive program and…

  • MONTCO Careers: Freedom Village at Brandywine

    MONTCO Careers: Freedom Village at Brandywine

    Find your Freedom Village career at Freedom Village at Brandywine, a Life Plan Community in West Brandywine, that has served seniors for more than 25 years. Freedom Village provides active senior living with resort-inspired services, amenities, social activities, chef-prepared cuisine and onsite care that includes personal care, skilled nursing, memory care and rehabilitation services. Be…

  • Lansdowne Ave. Rite Aid in Drexel Hill Latest Store to Close in Bankruptcy

    Lansdowne Ave. Rite Aid in Drexel Hill Latest Store to Close in Bankruptcy

    You can add one more Delaware County Rite Aid store to the list of closings amid the retail pharmacy’s bankruptcy, writes Daniel Une for Penn Live. The Rite Aid store at 832 N. Lansdowne Ave. in Upper Darby is part of a group of 28 stores in Pennsylvania and 118 nationwide, the latest that have…

  • Here’s Why the Healthcare Nonprofits Couldn’t Save Crozer Health

    Here’s Why the Healthcare Nonprofits Couldn’t Save Crozer Health

    A coalition of six area health care systems rallied together for months in an effort to save Crozer Health, but two major roadblocks kept it from happening, writes John George for the Philadelphia Business Journal. What the coalition needed, and couldn’t find, was “backstop” funding to protect the contributing health care systems from taking on…

  • MONTCO Careers – CCRES

    MONTCO Careers – CCRES

    CCRES is hiring professional staff to work in schools, in the home, and in the community as they help children and adults challenged by autism, mental illness, intellectual/developmental disabilities, and physical disabilities. CCRES joined up with the Chester County Intermediate Unit in 1999 to meet a need for behavioral health services for children in Chester…

  • Hot Enough for You? Here’s How Philadelphia Summer Temperatures Have Changed in 60 Years

    Hot Enough for You? Here’s How Philadelphia Summer Temperatures Have Changed in 60 Years

    A Philadelphia heat wave, the region’s first for 2025, hits this week. An Environmental Protection Agency report found that heat waves nationwide are occurring more frequently, lasting longer, and are more intense, writes Garland Fordice for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The article invites readers to choose a year to compare past temperatures with present temperatures. Here’s…

  • MONTCO Careers: The Lincoln Center for Family and Youth

    MONTCO Careers: The Lincoln Center for Family and Youth

    Founded in 1970 by a behavioral health hospital and incorporated as a nonprofit in 1983, The Lincoln Center for Family and Youth is an entrepreneurial social enterprise committed to transforming lives and communities. Headquartered in Audubon, TLC operates across multiple states, providing K-12 alternative education, comprehensive mental and behavioral health services, coaching, counseling, and trauma-informed…

  • See Why Wawa Felt It Needed to Sue This New Jersey City

    See Why Wawa Felt It Needed to Sue This New Jersey City

    An amended municipal law in the city of Garfield, New Jersey has prompted a Wawa lawsuit over how it does business in the town, writes Rebecca Heath for NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, as reported in silive.com. Garfield has a law that prevents Wawa from operating 24 hours a day. Wawa opened in Garfield in…

  • SAP: Here’s How to Get Your Company on Board with AI Innovations

    SAP: Here’s How to Get Your Company on Board with AI Innovations

    Companies that want to incorporate AI innovations into their operations need to draw on in-house experts while they consult with external talent, writes Maya Derrick for Technology Magazine. In-house experts can identify the most suitable AI uses for their company, while external talent can relay insights about AI that was implemented at other organizations, according…

  • $40M Gift to Villanova University Second Largest in Its History

    $40M Gift to Villanova University Second Largest in Its History

    An anonymous donor has given a boost to Villanova University’s $1.25 billion fundraising campaign with a $40 million gift, writes Ryan Mulligan for Philadelphia Business Journal. It is the second largest gift received in the university’s history. The money will go toward the president’s Strategic Initiative Fund, which allows President Rev. Peter Donohue to “direct…

  • Radnor-Based EQT Real Estate Makes Huge Phoenix Industrial Buy

    Radnor-Based EQT Real Estate Makes Huge Phoenix Industrial Buy

    EQT Real Estate, based in Radnor, expanded its industrial portfolio with the $128.2  million purchase of Sarival Logistics Center in the Loop 303 corridor located in the Phoenix, Arizona area, writes Haley Mensik for the Philadelphia Business Journal. It is the largest single-building warehouse sale in the region since the beginning of 2023, with the…

  • Severe Rise in Endowment Tax ‘Devastating’ to Swarthmore College

    Severe Rise in Endowment Tax ‘Devastating’ to Swarthmore College

    Swarthmore College could be hit with a tax rate increase in its endowments from 1.4 percent to anywhere from 14 to 21 percent, writes Susan Snyder for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The rate increase was approved by the U.S. House of Representatives and is now being considered by the U.S. Senate. The impact would be devastating…