• Conshohocken’s Bowstring Studios Acquires Short Order Production House

    Conshohocken’s Bowstring Studios Acquires Short Order Production House

    Bowstring Studios, the Conshohocken creative studio, has acquired Wilmington-based video production firm Short Order Production House, writes Holly Quinn for Technical.ly. Bowstring Studios also renamed the acquired property to Short Order, a Bowstring Company. Short Order will continue to have a satellite office in Delaware where the company will keep working with their local clients…

  • North Penn Senior Is Gatorade Pennsylvania Softball Player of the Year Again

    North Penn Senior Is Gatorade Pennsylvania Softball Player of the Year Again

    North Penn High School senior Julia Shearer, the University of Maryland commit, is the 2022-23 Gatorade Pennsylvania Softball Player of the Year, writes Ed Morlock for the PA Prep Live. Shearer learned she had been awarded the prestigious title after she finished her Advanced Placement Statistics final last week. She checked her phone and found…

  • ‘A Praying, Healing Presence’: Basilian Sisters Discuss Order’s Work in Ukraine

    ‘A Praying, Healing Presence’: Basilian Sisters Discuss Order’s Work in Ukraine

    Last month, Basilian sisters from Ukraine recently visited the order’s Jesus, Lover of Humanity Province in Jenkintown, writes Gina Christian for The Boston Pilot. Mother Marcela Runcan, general superior, and Basilian Sister Emanujila Vishka met with other sisters as well as Archbishop Borys Gudziak, metropolitan of Ukrainian Catholics in the U.S. Their main goal in…

  • Plymouth Meeting’s NCCN Commits to Improving Cancer Care in Vietnam

    Plymouth Meeting’s NCCN Commits to Improving Cancer Care in Vietnam

    The National Comprehensive Cancer Network, headquartered in Plymouth Meeting, is partnering with Vietnam National Cancer Hospital and the Vietnam Cancer Association to improve the standards of cancer care throughout Vietnam, writes John George for Philadelphia INNO. Dr. Robert W. Carlson, chief executive officer of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, said the goal of the memorandum…

  • New Montgomery County Police Program Assists Special Needs Drivers with Stressful Traffic Stops

    New Montgomery County Police Program Assists Special Needs Drivers with Stressful Traffic Stops

    Montgomery County officials recently announced a new “Blue Envelope Program” to help special needs drivers when they have on-the-road interaction with the police, writes Jessica Yakubovsky for PHL17. Traffic stops and car accidents can be stressful for anyone, but especially for drivers who may have conditions that affect their ability to communicate like autism spectrum…

  • Calling all Lansdale Adventurers for a New Escape Room Experience

    Calling all Lansdale Adventurers for a New Escape Room Experience

    Lansdale is now home to an immersive escape room experience: Escapopolis Escape Rooms, writes Nicole Rosenthal for Patch. The escape rooms, which opened in May, are located at the site of the former Your CBD Store at 325 W. Main Street in Lansdale. Intrepid adventurers can explore the three themed escape rooms and go on…

  • Main Line Millennial Couples Are Being Stretched Thin Financially

    Main Line Millennial Couples Are Being Stretched Thin Financially

    Many young millennials on the Main Line are faced with a double burden of expensive real estate and hard-to-find childcare, writes Caroline O’Halloran at SAVVY/Main Line. For starters, the average price of a home on the Main Line is almost $1 million. That is almost 40% more than the average sale price last year. Both…

  • North Wales Restaurant Relocates to Gwynedd Crossing Shopping Center

    North Wales Restaurant Relocates to Gwynedd Crossing Shopping Center

    Harvest Seasonal Grill & Wine Bar in North Wales had been shut down for weeks, but now the restaurant has a new home across the street, writes Justin Heinze for Patch. They moved to new roomier quarters at 1100 N. Bethlehem Pike in the Gwynedd Crossing Shopping Center and now are back open for business.…

  • Hotel West and Main Launches New Lunch Menu in Time for Father’s Day

    Hotel West and Main Launches New Lunch Menu in Time for Father’s Day

    It is almost Father’s Day and research shows that many fathers prefer to eat at home on their special day, but if they want to celebrate out at a restaurant, Conshohocken’s Hotel West and Main has a new lunch menu, according to Jennaphr Frederick for Fox29. Frederick met with Executive Chef Zack Wannawong who heads…

  • Craving Tacos This Weekend? Here’s Where to Go in Montgomery County

    Craving Tacos This Weekend? Here’s Where to Go in Montgomery County

    Whether it is Taco Tuesday or Saturday date night, Conshohocken’s El Limon Taqueria is the place to go when you are craving the authentic Mexican treat, according to a staff report by Main Line Today. El Limon has over 20 locations all around the Philadelphia suburbs. The delicious menu offers 13 different taco variations. A…

  • Ardmore’s David Block, While Legally Blind, Has Always Had a Vision

    Ardmore’s David Block, While Legally Blind, Has Always Had a Vision

    Writing and documentary filmmaking has always been a passion for Ardmore’s David Block and he has never let his blindness keep him from doing what he loves, writes J.F. Pirro for Main Line Today. He has faced many challenges in his life. Besides being legally blind, he is also on the autism spectrum. Growing up,…

  • Bala Cynwyd Expert Offers Tips on How to Break Up with Your Therapist

    Bala Cynwyd Expert Offers Tips on How to Break Up with Your Therapist

    Ending a relationship is never easy, especially the one with your therapist, writes Laura Brzyski for Philadelphia Magazine. Maybe you have only gone to a few sessions and you don’t feel comfortable with the therapist, or maybe you have had a long relationship with him or her, but now it is feeling stagnant. Is there…

  • Royersford’s Kevin Heywood, Four-Star Offensive Tackle, Commits to Wisconsin

    Royersford’s Kevin Heywood, Four-Star Offensive Tackle, Commits to Wisconsin

    Royersford’s Kevin Heywood, a Pope John Paul II High School four-star offensive tackle, has decided he wants to continue his football career at Wisconsin, writes Evan Flood for Badger 247. After his official visit to the school over the weekend, Heywood committed to head coach Luke Fickell and the Badgers. The 6-foot-7 junior had plenty…

  • Horsham-based Sofidel America Will Now Be Selling Nicky Brand

    Horsham-based Sofidel America Will Now Be Selling Nicky Brand

    Sofidel, a leading international provider of paper for hygiene and domestic use, will now be selling its Nicky Brand to U.S. consumers, according to a staff report from Building Services Management. The Nicky brand is well-known throughout Europe, but this will be the first time it is introduced in the United States. Nicky Elite is…

  • Malvern Bank House of the Week: Enchanting Colonial in a Little Oasis

    Malvern Bank House of the Week: Enchanting Colonial in a Little Oasis

    An enchanting colonial home with five bedrooms and two full and two half bathrooms is available for sale in Conshohocken. The residence is nestled on 5.15 gorgeous acres of picturesque landscape. The lush canopy of towering trees you drive through as you approach the home provides a sense of tranquility and privacy. The fauna surrounding…

  • Penn Community Bank CLO Named to Bucks County Bar Foundation Board

    Penn Community Bank CLO Named to Bucks County Bar Foundation Board

    Stephanie Schwartzberg, Esq., Chief Legal & Risk Officer at Penn Community Bank has been named to the Board of Trustees for the Bucks County Bar Foundation. She joins the leadership of the 501c3 for a three-year term. “I am honored to join the Board of Trustees of the Bucks County Bar Foundation and for the…

  • Hatboro Native Honored by Lehigh Valley Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women

    Hatboro Native Honored by Lehigh Valley Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women

    Hatboro native and Upper Moreland High School graduate Emma Meakim, of the Kutztown University women’s lacrosse team, has been named 2022-23 Outstanding Athletes of the Year in her sport by the Lehigh Valley Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, according to a staff report from Kutztown News. Meakim fully developed into one of the elite…

  • Did Astrud Gilberto, ‘The Girl From Ipanema’ Singer, Live in Narberth?

    Did Astrud Gilberto, ‘The Girl From Ipanema’ Singer, Live in Narberth?

    Astrud Gilberto, singer of the globally popular “The Girl From Ipanema,” passed away in Philadelphia recently at 83, but it is her home of the last several decades that remains a mystery, writes Dan DeLuca for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Gilberto, who popularized Brazilian bossa nova worldwide with her 1963 hit, had a long history with…