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Bestselling Bucks County Novelist — Former Editor-in-Chief of ‘Glamour’ and ‘Cosmo’ — Releases New Thriller
Kate White’s new novel, The Fiancée, reflects the COVID-19 timeframe in which it was written. It’s a domestic thriller set on a sprawling vacation estate that is nonetheless isolated, reports Rosemary Feitelberg for Woman’s World Daily. White has spent a lifetime on the other end of the editorial process, evaluating submissions, reading galleys, approving photos as editor-in-chief of Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Redbook,…
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Al Roker-Produced Documentary Depicts the Lengths to Which a Doylestown Nurse Went to Treat Her COVID-19 Patients
“American Nurse Heroes” — a televised documentary produced by the American Nurse Journal, NBC journalist Al Roker, and the American Nurses Association — spotlighted above-and-beyond COVID-19 caregivers nationwide. It included the exhausting, harrowing, frustrating, fear-filled, and emotionally wrenching first-person account of Shumi Mazzacano, an intensive care nurse at Doylestown Hospital. The 16-month pandemic forced Mazzacano, a 12-year veteran, to tap professional and personal reserves she wasn’t even…
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The Athletic: Local Major League Ballplayer Moonlights as Construction Worker
Lou Trivino, Oakland Athletics pitcher, uses the typical tools of the trade on the field: ball, glove, rosin bag. Off the field, he’s using tools, too: nail gun, ladder, sawhorses. Each off-season, Trivino returns to his parents’ home in Doylestown to work in his dad’s construction company, reports Alex Coffey for The Athletic. Trivino grew up a time when daycare was scarce. So Little Lou was…
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Andrew Polec, Local Son of 6abc Alum, Has Waited in the Wings Long Enough
6abc reporter Don Polec spent 30 years on local television, reporting quirky, offbeat stories. His son, Doylestonian Andrew Polec, inherited some of his performance gene and built a future with it, reports Neal Zoren for Delco Times. After an initial interest in professional sports, Polec attended Brown University for theater. He then hit the audition trail and beat the odds. He landed a role in Bat Out of Hell, a U.K.-musical based…
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Doylestown’s Alecia Beth Moore is Tickled Pink at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards
The 2021 Billboard Music Awards (BBMAs) took on a local flavor when it honored Doylestown’s Alecia Beth Moore — who the world knows better as Pink — with its Icon Award, reports Pat Ralph for PhillyVoice. The BBMA press announcement described its Icon Award as recognizing “…outstanding artists who have achieved excellence on the Billboard charts and have made an indelible mark on…
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Which Doylestown Illegality Now Carries the Bigger Fine: Planting Bamboo or Possessing Marijuana?
Illegal possession of marijuana in Doylestown Borough now costs lawbreakers $25, thanks to a legal revision reducing the penalty. In comparison, the fine for growing illegal bamboo is a whopping $600. The pros and cons of this new policy toward pot currently reverberate throughout the community, reports Shawnette Wilson for FOX29 News. Two lines of…
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Doylestown Vintage Sports Gear Company Slides into New Home
As the COVID-19 pandemic spread, Derrick Morgan, co-owner of The Monkey’s Uncle in Doylestown, knew that in-store social distancing wouldn’t work. The shop’s footprint was too small. So rather than close, he moved, as reported to Tracy Davidson for NBC10. Morgan described The Monkey’s Uncle as “…a retro, vintage-inspired t-shirt boutique.” Its specialty is throwback Phillies sports gear. “Old Phillies gear in powder-blue and maroon, old TastyKake shirts,” he…
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Miles for Molars: Cyclists Support Dental Services to Low-Income Montco Residents and Veterans
Encore Rides, a Doylestown guided bike tour business, considers community support so integral to its operations, it donates 15 percent of every tour fee to charity. One recent outreach was to Healthlink Dental Clinic. This nonprofit Southampton dentistry office offers free preventative and restorative care. Its client list includes low-income workers and veterans in Bucks and Montgomery Counties. The timing of the day of service was…
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Local Pool Contractor Treads Water to Keep Up with Deep Demands
As it did last summer, the coronavirus outbreak is cancelling vacation plans countywide. Isolated residents in Montco and Bucks counties are therefore continue investing in at-home leisure upgrades like in-ground pools. Demand remains high for pool contractors, leading to a gush of sales and plenty of backorders to dive into, reports Katie Park for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The timing of this rise in the pool construction business, however, isn’t the best. Supplies are short nationwide, affected…
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Moo-nlighting DelVal University Senior Isn’t Sheepish about Her Future Plans
W.B. Saul High School, a 150-acre working farm in Roxborough, trains the farmers of tomorrow. One grad, TaiLyn Lyghts, returns to campus every weekend, supplementing her Livestock Science and Management coursework at Delaware Valley University with real-life experience, reports Kristen A. Graham for The Philadelphia Inquirer. “This is full circle for me,” Lyghts said, reflecting on her reconnection with the animals she nurtured in…
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Lead Investor Commits to Venture Fund from Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center
Daiichi Sankyo, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in Japan, has committed to a $10 million lead investment in the Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center’s Hatch Biofund, according to the Philadelphia Business Journal. The fund was established in 2019 by the Doylestown-based Baruch S. Blumberg Institute, which manages the Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center, as a companion to the center’s incubator and bio-accelerator…
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Plymouth Meeting Native Navigates Murky Waters of a Parent with Alzheimer’s to Write First Book
Maryanne Scott didn’t start out to be a published author. Maryanne, a native of Plymouth Meeting, set out to chronicle the emotional rollercoaster she and her family navigated when her once-vital father, Sam Valenti, succumbed to Alzheimer’s Disease. Sam’s descent — typical in these cases — was gradual. A repeated question here. An off-base comment about sunny weather during a rainstorm there. The slips presaged a…
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Second-Hand Store Does First-Class Job at Restorations
Boomers joke that if you want to confuse a Millennial, ask him or her to make a call on a rotary phone. Or play an LP on a record player. But at Vintage Vibe in nearby Doylestown, Millennials may fare just fine with these retro tasks, reports Freda R. Savana for the Bucks County Herald. That’s because this…
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