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MONTCO Careers — Elysium Marketing Group
Elysium Marketing Group, a full-service digital marketing agency, is searching for experienced applicants to fill a full-time account manager position. Based in Ambler, the award-winning marketing agency specializes in marketing strategy, digital marketing, marketing automation, website design, logos/branding, and packaging. Elysium offers clients the personal touch of a boutique agency with the broad experience and…
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Financing Your New Vacation Property
Finding the right vacation home in a location of choice, with all desired amenities, that fits the budget, with a proper timeline established to maximize the investment, whose offer has been accepted by the seller is cause for great celebration. The new owner is practically over the finish line, ready for some much-needed downtime. There’s…
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Pittsburgh Newspaper Enables Access to Statewide Bridge Inspection Data That PennDOT Removed
A database of notes that accompanied inspections for over 20,000 Pennsylvania bridges — posted and then removed from the PennDOT website — are again publicly available. Joel Jacobs steeled himself for the task of filing the story for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. PennDOT’s bridge assessments were removed following the collapse of Pittsburgh’s Fern Hollow Bridge in…
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Philadelphia Region Exits Top 25 List of Smoggiest Metros, But the News is No Breath of Fresh Air
The Philadelphia region has finally dropped off the list of the 25 worst metro areas for ozone smog. But the American Lung Association’s State of the Air report shows that the levels of air pollution are still worrisome. Sophia Schmidt hacked through the data for The Philadelphia Tribune. The report looked at both ozone and…
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75 Doylestown Health Docs Make Philadelphia Magazine 2022 List of Top Physicians
The 2022 list of Top Docs in the area has been released by Philadelphia Magazine, honoring 75 healthcare providers in the Doylestown Health system. Each year, the task of compiling the list begins with doctors being nominated by peers. The finalists are then tallied by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. a healthcare research and information company…
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Talk About Overkill: Pennsylvania Residents Are Incinerating a Seasonal Pesky Pest with Propane Torches
Yes, these pests are annoying. And yes, they affect agribusinesses. But some mitigation techniques against them are getting a bit extreme, writes Abigail Gruskin for The Atlantic. In fact, the entire issue of the need to actively eliminate the critters is being questioned. Spotted lanternflies were predicted to decimate local trees, farms, and vineyards since…
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As a Teen, Lansdale Native and Political Influencer Paul Martino Built a Career Selling Products for $15 a Pop
Paul Martino, 47-year-old Doylestown venture capitalist, was notably focused even as a Lansdale teen. Robert Huber profiled his early entrepreneurial years and their effect on his current political activities in Philadelphia Magazine. Martino is the second of two sons; his father wrote code in the then-emerging tech industry. His mother noticed her younger child’s early…
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Landing in Lansdale: Penn Community Bank Opens New Branch; Donates $25,000 in Grants
Penn Community Bank celebrated the opening of its Lansdale Branch and Business Center with a ribbon cutting and reception on Tuesday, Apr. 26. The event marked the bank’s expanded presence in the Montgomery County market, as well as the growing impact of its involvement in the community. The ceremony included $25,000 in grant funding being…
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Firstrust Bank Puts Eagles Swag Up for Grabs in Promo Tied to Tomorrow’s Draft
Firstrust Bank is so eager for the 2022–2023 Philadelphia Eagles season that it’s stirring excitement around football’s earliest indication of its possible outcome: this week’s NFL Draft. The bank’s Top Pick Sweepstakes is a chance for fans to enter a series of bank-sponsored drawings for memorabilia that any Eagles fan would covet. Two prizes are…
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Firstrust Bank Huddles with Philadelphia Eagles for High-School Business Proposal Competition
The competitors arrived ready to battle, an apt outlook considering their surroundings. Five teams of students were at Lincoln Financial Field, home of the Philadelphia Eagles, unfazed by the presence of media, conferring with coaches in the pre-game lull, shaking off nerves by reviewing their business proposal content. The contest they were gearing up for…
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Just Like Buying a Home, Purchasing a Vacation Spot Is All About Timing
Vacations are a prime opportunity to ditch the phone alarms, toss aside the wristwatch, and pause all electronic reminders to enjoy some well-deserved downtime. A brief pause in clock-watching is a great refresher for the occasional respite from work and chores, but it can be a detriment to potential purchasers of a vacation home. In…
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Buon Compleanno! Di Bruno Bros.’ Wayne Location Celebrates One-Year Birthday with Two-Day Tasting Party
It’s been nearly a year since Di Bruno Bros. took its renowned reputation for gourmet cheese, cured meats, and specialty foods from South Philly to Wayne. The specialty food retailer is celebrating the suburban expansion at 394 W. Lancaster Ave. with a Fri.-Sat.-Sun. “Eat, Shop, Learn” event May 13–14. The “eat” aspect of that trio…
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Video Store Cold Case: Two 20-Year-Olds’ 1993 Fatal Attack on the Job Remains Unsolved
As an indicator to just how cold an ongoing Bucks County cold case has gotten, its victims were two 20-year-old workers at a Warminster West Coast Video store — a chain that went defunct in 2009. Joe Holden, CBS3, reported this tragic case’s investigation, still in progress. Bryan Benson and Seann Campbell were closing the…
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Workforce Trends Put Extra Bucks in Montco Wallets, Yet Phila.’s Windfall Lags National Stats
While wage increase statistics are increasing steadily nationwide amid a candidate-friendly market, Greater Philadelphia still finds itself in the lower half of the list of wage increases nationally. Ty West and Ryan Mulligan tallied the implications for the Philadelphia Business Journal. The Playbook reviewed Bureau of Labor Statistics data and found that average weekly earnings…
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Pottstown-based Garage Owner Focuses on American Classics and British Sports Cars, Each Lovingly Restored
Ragtops & Roadsters, a specialty garage in Perkasie, specializes in reviving the 1950s–1960s two-seater English sports cars. Chrysa Smith looked under the hood of this niche restorer in Bucks County Magazine. Bryan Joslin is the managing director of the automobile servicer, which has its roots in a Pottstown restoration garage that focused on American classics.…
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Peddler’s Village Presents Spring FunFest and Sidewalk Sale, April 23–24
Peddler’s Village presents its Spring FunFest and Sidewalk Sale from April 23–24. The family-friendly event will feature live entertainment, family activities, crafts for children, outdoor food and drinks, and a morning charity walk in partnership with Kelly’s Kidz, a nonprofit organization that Bob Kelly (FOX29 Philadelphia reporter) founded to benefit pediatric hospital patients. The event,…
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Jenkintown-based Tailor Stitches Together a Career of 40-Plus Years in an Industry That Suits Him
The 40-plus years of the career of Frank Ventresca isn’t best measured in legacy accounting records or discarded business calendars but in inches. Despite the general decline of bespoke men’s suits (Brooks Brothers of New York abandoned the service in 1976), his custom craftsmanship continues at his namesake Doylestown clothing shop, Ventresca Ltd. Ventresca, a…
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Former Summer Home of the Guggenheim Family, Founder of New York’s Famous Museum, Hits the Market
Solomon R. Guggenheim, the mining titan behind the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, escaped the pressures of his business career as many other people of means did in the last century. That dwelling, in Upper Black Eddy, Bucks County, is now on the market, reports Lisa Dukart for the Philadelphia Business Journal. The onetime…
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