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Malvern Bank makes a difference, donates school supplies to local children in need
Malvern Bank, National Association has donated a substantial amount of school supplies to the Domestic Violence Center of Chester County (DVCCC) as the culmination of its Back to School Drive. The DVCCC is a charitable organization that supports the community by providing housing, counseling, and assistance with life skills to women (and their children) who…
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Short film by North Wales photographer aims to turn everyone into spotted lanternfly exterminators
A new, Halloween-ready short film by photographer Mike Allebach aims to get people in the mood to kill spotted lanternflies, the invasive pests that have been wreaking havoc across the state for years, writes Claire Sasko for the Philadelphia Magazine. The pest that is originally native to Asia first showed up in Pennsylvania in 2014…
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Collegeville-based telecommunications company unveils pumpkin spice-scented office phones
Recent Communications, Inc., a Collegeville-based telecommunications company, is taking the season of all things pumpkin spice to a whole new level by unveiling pumpkin spice-scented office phone handsets. As a full-service telecom partner that offers custom design, installation, training, and support of a wide range of business phone systems, software, and services, Recent Communications is…
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Limerick Township adding more parks, open space
Limerick Township recently presented concept plans for several of its properties, all focusing on adding more parks and open space to the township’s map, writes Evan Brandt for The Pottstown Mercury. The plans were presented by Tim Haas, assistant township manager, and Ryan Yanchocik, parks and recreation assistant director, at the supervisors meeting on September…
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Manor College in Jenkintown working toward easing burden of textbook costs
Manor College in Jenkintown is among a growing number of colleges locally and nationally that are working on easing the burden of textbook costs for students, writes Susan Snyder for ThePhiladelphia Inquirer. According to some estimates, students pay more than $1,000 a year for textbooks. A single print textbook for some subjects can cost upwards…
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Pope Francis honors Plymouth Meeting woman for her contributions to Catholic education
Pope Francis has appointed Barbara Henkels, a longtime resident of Plymouth Meeting and the founder of the Regina Academies, to the Pontifical Equestrian Order of St. Sylvester in recognition of her significant contributions to Catholic education in the Philadelphia region. The Order of St. Sylvester is one of the five orders of knighthood in the…
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Glenside man celebrates 104th birthday with game of pool
Fred Gomez, a World War II veteran born during the Great War, celebrated his 104th birthday with a game of pool, writes Maria Panaritis for ThePhiladelphia Inquirer. After blowing out the candles on his birthday cake, Gomez moved to the billiard nook named after him when he turned 102. Hardly surprising since he has been…
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Montgomery County Leadership – Ed Harris
Ed Harris, the Chief Marketing Officer at the Valley Forge Tourism & Convention Board, a private, non-profit membership organization which actively promotes the Valley Forge area and Montgomery County, spoke with MONTCO Today about growing up in Roxborough, attending Germantown Academy, where his basketball team once squared off against Kobe Bryant’s Lower Merion, his first…
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Pennsylvania Among Top Ten States With Highest Credit Card Debt
Pennsylvania is in the top ten states with the highest credit card debt in the nation, according to a recently published study by WalletHub. Americans started the year owing more than $1 trillion in credit card debt. While the first quarter of the year seemed promising, with consumers repaying around $38.2 billion, the second quarter…
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Life at Villanova’s Commons: Dorm life was never like this
Villanova’s new dorms, The Commons, offer more than just living space. There’s two fitness centers and in 2020, the 200-seat Refectory restaurant will open, along with the Parliament Expresso & Coffee Bar, writes Melissa Jacobs for Main Line Today. A performing arts center and a five-level parking garage will follow. Villanova’s once-modest Lancaster Avenue entrance…
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El Limon Taqueria Coming to Flourtown
El Limon Taqueria will be opening its tenth location in Flourtown, at the space that was the former home of the Flourtown Bakery, writes April Lisante for the Chestnut Hill Local. The local favorite is owned by Karina Vargas and her husband Isaias Dominguez and business partners Manuel Carbajal Ruiz and Carmen Zepeda. It has…
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Beth Sholom Synagogue in Elkins Park to host major new art installation
Beth Sholom Synagogue in Elkins Park, designed by renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright, is hosting a major new art installation by David Hartt, writes Thomas Hine for ThePhiladelphia Inquirer. The synagogue was completed in 1959, the same year Wright finished the New York’s Guggenheim Museum. It is one of the most important buildings of the…
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Collegeville family ready to deal with spotted lanternfly egg-laying season
Carin Weidner and her family have become self-made experts at getting rid of spotted lanternflies at their Collegeville home, writes Ximena Conde for WHYY. The family has been dealing with the pest throughout the entire summer. “We can’t even go outside most of August and part of September,” said Weidner. To make a bad situation…
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Brandywine Realty Trust unveils plans for new office building surrounded by park in King of Prussia
Brandywine Realty Trust has teamed up with Coscia Moos Architecture on the development of an office building surrounded by a public park and trail in King of Prussia, writes Michael Tanenbaum for the Philly Voice. Work has already begun at 650 Park Avenue with the demolition of the existing structure on the property. The development…
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Statue of former West Chester University quarterback a tangible local reminder of 9/11 tragedy
Publisher’s Note: This story was originally published on VISTA Today on September 11th 2016. Although Chester County lies more than 100 miles from New York City and Washington, D.C., and more than 200 miles from Shanksville, it has close ties to the tragedies so many have suffered as a result of the terrorist attacks of…
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Arcadia University ranks among Princeton Review’s ‘Regional Best” for fifth consecutive year
Arcadia University in Glenside has ranked among Princeton Review’s “Best in the Northeast” in its “2020 Best Colleges: Region by Region” for the fifth consecutive year, writes Caitlin Burns for Arcadia University News. Arcadia is among nine schools in Greater Philadelphia and 49 in Pennsylvania that are graded “academically outstanding and well worth consideration.” In…
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This spider was discovered in Delco, now, it just wants to be left alone
A small team of volunteers is studying a spider unique to Delaware County and parts of nearby Philadelphia: the Pennsylvania purseweb spider, or Atypus snetsingeri, writes Sebastian Echeverri for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The spiders are built like inch-long tarantulas painted in earth tones. “They are very secretive. … They live their entire lives in their…
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Lower Merion’s new zoning code tribute to 1950s suburbia
The new zoning code proposed for Lower Merion Township focuses primarily on the most cherished but also most exclusionary features of 1950s suburbia, writes Inga Saffron for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The new rules will be up for a final vote at the Board of Commissioners meeting on September 18. The code emphasizes big lots, big…
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