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C&N Bank Donation Helps Pathway School Make Inroads with Students
C&N Bank has donated $30,000 to Jeffersonville’s Pathway School, under the Educational Improvement Tax Credit Program (EITC). The Pathway School is a nonprofit special education school. Founded in 1961, it serves students ages 5–21 with autism spectrum disorders, intellectual disabilities, emotional disturbances, and other neurological impairments. The school’s mission is to build academic, social, and…
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Willow Grove’s Dan Trachtenberg Hunts for Ratings with New ‘Predator’ Release on Hulu
Willow Grove homeboy-gone-Hollywood director Dan Trachtenberg is about to unleash more mayhem in the Predator film franchise. Alicia Vitarelli chased down the details on his film Prey for 6abc. Prey may look like a prequel — it’s episode number five in the saga and takes place three centuries before the original — but Trachtenberg insists…
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Fall Expo to Kindle Career Fires among Montgomery County Students as Next-Gen Employees
The Oct. 25 Careers of Tomorrow Expo is an opportunity for students in late middle- and high school to explore 100 of the many career paths that lie before them. Best, local business entities seeking connection with the secondary education class of 2026 can still participate. The event will fill the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center…
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Cutloose Cares, New Norristown Outreach, Having Purchased School Supplies, Needs Stuffers to Pack Them
Cutloose Cares, a Norristown outreach for struggling families, needs a few good hands. The organization — which is only a few months old — is dedicated to helping disadvantaged residents in the area, providing them with a pathway to health and well-being. One of its inaugural projects is equipping school kids with supply-filled backpacks before…
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Biotech Company in Lower Gwynedd Prescribes New, Streamlined Corporate Structure for C-Suite
AnPaC Bio-Medical Science has gotten shareholder approval to consolidate its c-suite. The change for the international biotech developer of cancer screening and detection technologies will affect its operations in China, as well as its U.S. operations, headquartered in Lower Gwynedd. John George covered the executive reduction in the Philadelphia Business Journal. The reconfiguration is being…
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Automotive Aftermarket Continues to Drive Results for Colmar’s Dorman Products
2Q2022 at Dorman Products, Colmar, saw a continuance of its high-octane performance this year. Gregory Purcell reported the company’s current successful drive for WFMZ 69 News. The parts supplier reported second-quarter 2022 net sales of $417.4 million, up a record 34 percent over its performance for the same quarter last year. That good news, however,…
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Williamson’s Restaurants Hosted a Magical Montco Matchmaking Moment 50 Years Ago
Williamson’s has been a Montgomery County restaurant brand for decades, with a Bala Cynwyd dining room and a now-closed Lower Merion location. A couple who met while under Williamson’s employ — Mary Ellen and Chris Mullins — are still serving each other a half-century later. Kellie Patrick Gates plated their relationship’s details in The Philadelphia…
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MCCC Program Honored Nationally for ‘Transforming Pathways and Redefining Futures’ for Students
MCCC’s Gateway to College program — which helps students reengage with their educations to concurrently achieve a high-school diploma and launch a postsecondary career — has again earned national recognition, its fourth in as many years. The honor, a Program Excellence Award, came from Achieving the Dream (ATD), a national organization committed to bolster community…
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Plymouth Meeting Biopharma Co. Turns Focus Inward to Heal Itself by Cutting Costs
Plymouth Meeting biopharma firm Inovio, working to cure its own ills, is undergoing a reorg. The multiple measures it is taking under new CEO Dr. Jacqueline Shea are designed to bolster its cash position into 3Q2024, as John George reported in the Philadelphia Business Journal. Internal changes started last month, with the removal of CEO…
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Building Bonanza: Montgomery County’s New Home Construction Rate Outpaces Two Other Collar Counties’
New home construction data in Montgomery County show growth in a year-over-year analysis, a healthy performance among the Phila. collar counties. Erin Davis unlocked the details for Axios. The 2020–2021 data indicate a national boom in residential real estate development, with a 0.96 percent increase in residences entering the market. Montgomery County’s 0.5 percent upswing…
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Lower Merion H.S. Entrepreneurs Eliminate the Wave of Obstacles That Could Spoil a Day’s Shore Trip
It’s about 70 miles from Montgomery County to the Shore. But in a car packed with kids, chairs, toys, towels, beach bags, lunches, inflatables, kites, and food, that trek can feel like 700. Two teenage, Montco entrepreneurs have a fix: Perfect Beach Day NJ. Victor Fiorello floated their story in Philadelphia Magazine. The business model…
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Princeton Professor and Glenside Resident Enlightens Others about the South, the ‘Soul of a Nation’
Imani Perry, now of Glenside, was born in Alabama and then moved to Massachusetts. That change that gave her an “external view of the place that was home to me,” she said. Robin Rose Parker explained how that impact shaped Perry in The Washington Post. Perry, a professor of African American Studies at Princeton, collected…
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How a Little-Known Montgomery County Author Inspired Bucks County’s Most Renowned Literary Figure
1930s novelist Granville E. Toogood is a Montgomery County figure lost to the ages. He was Whitemarsh Township resident, newspaperman, novelist, and squash player at Merion Cricket Club. But his influence, especially on another local literary star, makes his name worth resurrecting, as Avi Wolfman-Arent did in Billy Penn. Toogood’s influential work was Huntsman in…
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Aqua-Tots, Horsham, Celebrates Christmas in July with Semiannual Sale on Swim Lessons
Andrea and Brad Sahl — co-owners of Aqua-Tots, Horsham — continue to share the importance teaching children how to swim. Their belief that swim safety is a critical life lesson has led them to hold a Christmas in July semiannual sale on classes of all levels. “Our goal with our annual Christmas in July special…
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In July’s Swelter, Nation’s First Ice Skating Club in Montco Fights to Keep From Melting Away
The Philadelphia Skating Club and Humane Society in Ardmore is in jeopardy. It’s an indoor rink, so the threat is not from the soaring July temperatures of late. Rather, the nation’s first skating club — dating to 1849 — needs funds to keep its building from gliding further into disrepair. Paul Jablow shaved down the…
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Limerick Garden of Memories Serves as Site for Bittersweet Reunion of Long-Fractured Family
The reunion of two siblings at the Limerick Garden of Memories last week partly overcame decades of familial separation. Jo Ciavaglia reported the emotional story in the Bucks County Courier Times. The Cappetta family had nine members: father Michael, mother Dorothy, and children Harry, Michael, Helen, Diane, Pauline, Julie, and Millie. When patriarch Michael passed…
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Happy Hounds, No Hangovers: Telford Bakery Turns Spent Grains from Brewing Beer into Dog Treats
The eureka moment for Brewscuits, a Telford pet-treat business, happened a decade ago when a pair of dog owners found their rescued Weimaraner happily eating the spent grains from their home brewing hobby. From there, the idea to package pet treats made from barley, oats, and rye simply bubbled up. Justin Backover cracked open the…
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Broadcaster Mike Missanelli Connects with Jenkintown Media Partner, Scores New Show at the Shore
Mike Missanelli has found a new perch for his sports radio content, just in time for the Phila. Eagles Sept. 11 home opener. The new gig comes via a business connection with JAKIB Media Partners, Jenkintown. Michael Potter suited up to cover the story for the Philadelphia Business Journal. Missanelli’s new show will broadcast from…
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