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Traveling Golfer wins Outstanding Achievement Award
The Traveling Golfer television show – hosted by Tony Leodora, with producer Jamie McWilliams and associate producer Eddie Caiazzo – once again has been recognized for television excellence. The show received an Outstanding Achievement Award, presented by the International Network of Golf at the PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando. This follows three consecutive years of being named the…
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Welcome to 2019!
Hello Montco! Welcome to 2019! With the shortened work week, and turning the page on a new year, we thought it would be a good time to take a stroll back through the year and offer up some of the stories that resonated most with our readers. We wish everyone a very healthy and happy…
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What were the most popular baby names of 2018?
What’s in a name? Seriously? Well just about everything. When parents are considering what to name their yet to be delivered bundle of joy the conversation can be never ending. This is something your child is going to carry with them their entire lives. Unless of course, they despise what you’ve chosen for them so…
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Conshohocken native details life for ‘second greatest generation’ in published book
He’s a respected college philosophy professor, husband, father and grandfather. But back in the day, growing up in Conshohocken, he experienced life as a kid during the Great Depression and World War II. Now, Joseph J. Romano, who lives in Malvern with his wife Jeanne, put those memories of growing up in a Sixth Avenue…
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Podcast takes a new look at missing wife of Main Line dentist
On December 3, 1999, 48-year-old Kathleen Mohn allegedly left the home she shared with her estranged husband, Thomas Mohn, in the Gulph Mills section of Upper Merion Township. She was planning to head to Levittown for the weekend. Kathleen was eager to get a head start on wrapping Christmas presents that weekend and almost canceled her trip, but…
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Content marketing now a $400 billion business
Media has changed so much over the years, that the change is now a given, but the way people advertise their own business has changed immensely. Now, businesses tell their own story, through content marketing, instead of in box ads that show up in newspapers or online. The marketing world is changing every day. New…
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Main Line based Golf Genius partners with NBC Sports and Golf Channel
While golf may be a solitary sport, the people you meet on the first tee and beyond sometimes have an impact on your life, and for Main Line based Golf Genius has made a very important friend indeed. NBC Sports Group and tournament management software company, Golf Genius Software, today announced a strategic partnership that…
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Blue Bell team publishes financial retirement guide
Advisors Patrick Foley, CFP® and Kristin Hillsley (MBA), of Baird, set out to research factors that increase the odds of happiness in retirement. The data they found suggests three key elements are of greatest importance. [gap height=”10″] You need to have enough money to support your lifestyle, whatever that lifestyle may be. You need to…
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New book traces rise and fall of Montco trolley transit
By Joe Barron Mike Szilagyi grew up fascinated by the trolleys that whirred up and down Old York Road in his grandparents’ Philadelphia neighborhood. He didn’t know it at the time, but as solid and indestructible as they seemed, they were only a small remnant of a system that once covered the entire city and…
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Suburban newspapers continue to profit as local news coverage continues to suffer
Digital First Media operates six daily newspapers in the Philadelphia suburbs, including The Mercury in Pottstown, The Times Herald in Norristown, The Reporter in Lansdale, The Daily Local News in West Chester, The Trentonian in Trenton, New Jersey and the Delaware County Daily Times in Delaware County. The newsrooms have continued to shrink in size,…
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Ryan Howard cleans up for Seventy-Six Capital with Play by Play Sports deal
With Ryan Howard serving as its cleanup hitter, SeventySix Capital, based in Conshohocken, expanded its sports-related holdings with an investment in Play by Play Sports Broadcasting Camps. Play by Play Sports runs sports broadcast camps for boys and girls ages 10 to 18 in Philadelphia and eight other major cities including Los Angeles, Dallas, Boston…
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Wayne attorney publishes new legal thriller
Main Line attorney recently released his second novel, “An Engineered Injustice,” published by Thomas & Mercer. William L. Myers, of Wayne, wrote his first novel, “A Criminal Defense,” which debuted in April of 2017 with a No. 1 ranking on Amazon. The novel went on to become the No. 6 best selling Kindle book of…
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Times Herald, Mercury, Reporter owner cuts Philadelphia-area employees as it wins bid to buy Boston Herald
Digital First Media, the suburban newspaper company now owned by hedge fund Alden Global Capital, is buying the Boston Herald while cutting jobs at its Philadelphia-area publications, writes Jon Chesto for the Boston Globe and Jeff Blumenthal for the Philadelphia Business Journal. Since Alden took over four years ago, Digital First Media has cut employees…
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‘Did You Boscov Today?’ celebrates life of retail giant
A newly released book celebrates the late Albert Boscov, who was chairman of the department store chain that bears his family’s name. “Did You Boscov Today?” was compiled by Boscov’s grandchildren — Joshua Aichenbaum, Jonah Boscov-Brown and Amelia Xanthe Boscov — and includes dozens of photos, drawings by local artists and more than 100 stories…
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New Owner Takes Reins of MONTCO.Today
Hello, MONTCO! Please meet our new publisher and owner, Stan Huskey. You may very well already know him since he spent the past 20-plus years writing and editing stories in Montgomery County for The Times Herald and Digital First Media. This past February, Huskey retired from Digital First Media and took his company, CuttingBoard Consulting, out to Elmwood Park Zoo,…
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Cheltenham Township News Portal CitizensCall.net to Close
Suburban Philadelphia journalism has seen several news outlets shutting down recently, with Cheltenham Township’s CitizensCall.net now joining the list, writes Joseph N. DiStefano for Philly.com. Owner of CitizensCall.net, Stephen Strahs, said the independent news site has been suspended and will soon be permanently removed. Strahs worked as an economic-development and labor consultant before moving into…
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Check Out Which Montgomery County-Based Companies Landed on This Year’s Fortune 500
Montgomery County is home to a trio of Fortune 500 companies: Universal Health Services, UGI, and Toll Brothers. King of Prussia-based UHS, led by Chairman and CEO Alan B. Miller, moved up 14 spots from its prior-year ranking, checking in at No. 276 after having generated $10.5 billion in revenues during the 2016 fiscal year.…
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Former Padres and Dolphins CEO to Lead Entercom’s Sports Operations
In preparation for the addition of some of the country’s most significant sports radio channels as part of its acquisition of CBS Radio, Bala Cynwyd’s Entercom Communications has hired Mike Dee to lead its sports operations, writes Jeff Blumenthal for Philadelphia Business Journal. Dee, the former CEO of the San Diego Padres and the Miami…
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