• J.P. Mascaro & Sons featured in national trade magazine

    J.P. Mascaro & Sons featured in national trade magazine

    Their red trucks sometimes seem ubiquitous in our area, and now the Audubon-based company is making news on a national scale. When J.P. Mascaro & Sons founder J.P. Mascaro Sr. set out to start a waste collection business in 1964, he had just one truck and one contract serving the General Electric Aerospace Center in King of…

  • Bald Birds Brewing Co. flies into Audubon

    Bald Birds Brewing Co. flies into Audubon

    John James Audubon achieved lasting fame with his three-volume Birds of North America. In September, the town that bears his name will become known for another high flier — the Bald Birds brewery and taproom, which will hold its grand opening Sept. 15. The party will begin at 12:00 noon and soar until midnight, according to…

  • Nothing broken about this Fractured Prune Doughnuts story in Audubon

    Nothing broken about this Fractured Prune Doughnuts story in Audubon

    The legend of Prunella Shriek made it all the way from Ocean City, Maryland, to the Audubon Square shopping center in Lower Providence. The tale of Prunella Shriek, a plucky 19th Century athlete who was in the habit of injuring herself — “Fractured Prunella,” her friends called her — playing against men in such sports…

  • Tru by Hilton breaks ground in Valley Forge

    Tru by Hilton breaks ground in Valley Forge

    Hilton  and Audubon Land Development broke ground recently on a new Tru by Hilton property located in Audubon. The 121-room, five-story hotel will be located at 825 Forge Ave., just minutes from the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center at Oaks, Valley Forge National Historical Park, and King of Prussia Mall, which is the largest shopping mall in the…

  • J. P. Mascaro and Sons awarded recycling contract valued at $260,000 by Aston Township

    J. P. Mascaro and Sons awarded recycling contract valued at $260,000 by Aston Township

    Aston Township, Delaware County, awarded local waste service company, J. P. Mascaro & Sons, a thirteen-month contract with options for two additional years, to process and market all of the Township’s commingled recyclables, according to a submitted press release. Starting in September, J.P. Mascaro will transport the recyclables to Mascaro’s modern, fully-automated, 85,000 sq. ft.…

  • Fractured Prune ready for Lower Providence grand opening

    Fractured Prune ready for Lower Providence grand opening

    Fractured Prune Doughnuts is pleased to announce the opening of Fractured Prune Audubon, in Lower Providence! A Grand Opening Celebration is planned for July 31, 2018. “In our family, our tradition has always been to swing by Fractured Prune on the way to and from the shore. As we grew familiar with our ‘beach friends’…

  • China restricts imports of recyclables

    China restricts imports of recyclables

    The looming trade war between the United States and China hit the domestic waste management industry as China, the world’s top destination for recyclable commodities, imposed restrictions on imported recyclables for reuse. The restrictions include  an outright ban on 24 different categories of recyclable materials that China imports from the United States and the rest…

  • TotalRecycle announces Earth Day celebration

    TotalRecycle announces Earth Day celebration

    J. P. Mascaro & Sons, with headquarters in Audubon, Montgomery County, will kick off its Earth Day celebration on Friday, April 20, 2018, at its new state-of-the-art single stream recyclables processing facility located at 1270 Lincoln Road, Birdsboro, Pennsylvania. [uam_ad id=”54865″] TotalRecycle, Inc., a J. P. Mascaro & Sons affiliated company, recently opened its new,…

  • Birds of John James Audubon Center migrating to a new nest

    Birds of John James Audubon Center migrating to a new nest

    The birds of the John James Audubon Center are migrating to another nest this spring. But, don’t worry, it’s not very far from their old one. Their new home, the Raptor Building, is just down the path on the same property as the space the bird ambassadors were previously sharing. This one, however, has running…

  • Audubon-based Globus Medical making run at orthopedic trauma market

    Audubon-based Globus Medical making run at orthopedic trauma market

    Audubon-based Globus Medical, a manufacturer of implants and other devices, is making a run at the orthopedic trauma market. The local company is isplaying its growing portfolio of trauma products at this week’s American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons’ annual meeting in New Orleans. “We feel we can capitalize on our strengths of innovation and speed to…