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Porch Thieves Are Sly Ones. Cameras Finger Foxes as Culprits
There have been a rash of missing shoes and other stuff showing up in odd places in Media. Now we know why, writes Joe Holden for CBS Philly. It took months to track the perpetrators down but they’ve been exposed on camera. Just as you suspected, it was a den of foxes. “It’s the talk…
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Main Line Colleges Contribute Pizza Boxes and Food Scraps to Composting Expert to Make Gardens Grow
Chris Pieretti wanted to start a business to help people grow vegetables. With Kitchen Harvest, Inc. he’s doing the next best thing, turning moldy food scraps and pizza boxes into gardening gold, writes Pete Bannan for the Daily Times. Pieretti, a composting expert, has his business on the Linvilla Orchards farm in Media. He turned…
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Choose The Right Fireplace For Your Home With Hometown Hearth at New Showroom in Media
As springtime arrives here in the Northeast, many homeowners are beginning their spring cleaning and getting ready for time spent outdoors this summer. Believe it or not, this is the best time of year to consider upgrading or installing a new fireplace for those cold Fall and Winter months. With a brand new showroom opening…
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Find Your Next Romance, Mystery, or Thriller at These Montco Bookstores
Despite the continuously dropping number of bookstores in the region, there are many of those that are still fighting the good fight as they continue to offer a great selection of books while being a vital pillar in the community, writes Patrick Rapa for the Philadelphia Magazine. Three of them are right here in Montgomery…
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Owners Create Forever Contemporary Ranch Home in Media, Then Life Took a Turn
They put their hearts and craftsmanship into their forever home, a customized contemporary in Media, but now work demands are taking them in a different direction and this ranch is up for sale, writes Sandy Smith for Philadelphia Magazine. The stylish “cabin in the woods” is actually in a wooded subdivision on Oak Valley Road below…
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New Kobe Bryant Book Covers His Years in Italy, Lower Merion, and How They Helped Shape Him into a Star
Mike Sielski’s new book The Rise – Kobe Bryant and the Pursuit of Immortality covers the legendary player’s early years in Italy and Lower Merion and how this helped shape him into a star, writes Gavin Newsham for the New York Post. Kobe Bryant moved to Italy with his family when he was 6 after…
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Wawa Debuts Beverage Vehicle to Thank Local Healthcare Workers
Local healthcare workers will now have their “Gotta Have a Wawa” urges satisfied more quickly with a Wawa vehicle on site ready to serve up to 500 cups of hot beverages at a time. Wawa and The Wawa Foundation debuted the “Wawa in Your Community” vehicle this week. Wawa’s famed coffee, as well as hot chocolate,…
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Retirees All Across the Country Are Moving to These Four Towns, and One Is in Delaware County
Delaware County residents may be surprised to know that one of their own towns is right up there with Florida, Las Vegas, and Arizona when it comes to popular places for retiring, according to Brittney Myers at Fool.com. Media Borough was second on a list of four popular places to retire. The others were in…
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Skulls Bring Former Delco Woman in Touch With Her True Art
Sue Moerder, who grew up in nearby Delco, always knew she was destined to be an artist. Today, the former tattoo artist and advertising designer has fulfilled her destiny, creating skull art, writes Stephanie Farr for The Philadelphia Inquirer. She’s not sure where her first skull came from. “You work in Jersey and everybody hunts…
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Burglars to Revisit Media FBI Office With Book Signing and Speeches
It’s a reunion like no other. On September 1, activists who broke into the FBI office in Media 50 years ago will return to the site to commemorate the anniversary of the event, reports the Daily Times. They will be joined by Washington Post reporter Betty Medsger, who broke the story. The Pennsylvania Historical and…
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Restaurant Owners Want Outdoor Dining, To-Go Cocktails Extended Past Pandemic
In the May 18 Primary Election, voters supported a referendum limiting Pa. Gov. Tom Wolf’s COVID-19 pandemic disaster declaration to 21 days only. Last week, the state legislature voted that the emergency declaration had officially expired. Two casualties of that decision are outdoor dining and to-go cocktails, reports Annie McCormick for 6abc.com. Both were created…
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This Nearby Delco Town is the 6th Best Place to Retire in the U.S., Study Says
There’s a Philadelphia suburb right here in Delaware County that’s already recognized as a great place to retire in Pennsylvania. Now, SmartAsset has ranked Media Borough as the sixth-best place to retire in the United States, reports CBS3staff. Media fell just after Farmington, MI in fifth-place and before Westlake Village, CA, which came in seventh.…
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Media-Based Web Design/SEO Company Boosts Local Businesses’ Online Traffic
Located in the middle of Media Borough is a small web design, development, and SEO firm called Media Proper. For two decades, the Media Proper team has been using customized, comprehensive approaches to search engine optimization (SEO) as a way to boost the organic traffic of their clients’ websites. SEO may be the most cost-effective…
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Local Man Was Spielberg’s ‘Jurassic Park’ Dino Advisor, Now He’s on Shark Tank
The nearby Media Borough man who advised Steven Spielberg about dinosaurs in “Jurassic Park” now has his company and its robotic life-sized creatures featured in a May 21 episode of Shark Tank, writes Lisa Dukart for The Philadelphia Business Journal. Don Lessem runs Dino Don, Inc. from his Media home. His dinosaurs are displayed in…
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Jeopardy! Host Bill Whitaker Has Intimate Ties to Nearby Media
Who is a CBS journalist and a “60 Minutes” contributor? He’s guest hosting Jeopardy! Bill Whitaker is also from Media Borough, and he’s not letting anyone forget it, writes Neal Zoren for the Daily Times. Whitaker has made sure that Media Fellowship House receives matching funds equal to Jeopardy!’s combined winnings while he’s on the…
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Media-Based Freya Systems Explores Future of A.I. During Philly Tech Week with Webinar on Tuesday
Artificial intelligence and data science technologies are changing businesses of all types and sizes. Freya Systems, a data analytics and software development company based in Media, will host a webinar on Tuesday, May 11 from 5-7 PM that helps business owners and leaders understand these changes and highlights current and future applications of advanced data…
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Washington Post: Undercover of the Fight of the Century, Activists Broke Into FBI Offices in Media
Anti-war protesters used the distraction of the “Fight of the Century” between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier on March 8, 1971 to break into an FBI office in nearby Media and steal documents highlighting the government’s persecution of activists, writes Kevin Blackistone for The Washington Post. The seized documents shed a public light on COINTELPRO,…
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CEO of West Chester’s 20/10 Solutions Helps Make Communications Dreams Come True
In the section of his LinkedIn account, where most other professionals outline their job descriptions with similar, long-winded verbosity, Joe Warner simply states, “I make communications dreams come true.” It’s not that the 47-year-old founder and CEO of West Chester-based 20/10 Solutions isn’t interested in sharing the specifics of what he does. It’s just that…
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