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Holiday Engagements Mean Spring-Summer Weddings, A Montgomery County Specialty
The 2022 Montgomery County holiday season will assuredly yield an engagement ring or two wrapped in red-green paper and presented to a loved one. After all the congratulations, the to-do list then kicks in, which means the hunt for a venue. Fortunately, WeddingWire has a list of top-rated places for perfect 2023 matrimonial events. The…
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Penn Community Bank Contributes $15,000 to Habitat for Humanity of Montgomery and Delaware Counties
Penn Community Bank has contributed $15,000 to Habitat for Humanity of Montgomery and Delaware Counties (Habitat MontDelCo). The donation aligns with its home-ownership programs: Home Buying, Almost Home Financial Empowerment, and Neighborhood Revitalization programs. Home Buying The Home Buying Program serves residents earning 30–80 percent of the median income with significant housing needs. Habitat MontDelCo…
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Integrate for Good’s Community Heroes Gala on Thursday Now Sold Out
Editor’s Note: Tickets for this event have sold out. Integrate for Good — a nonprofit organization empowering children and adults with disabilities to share their talent through inclusive volunteerism, community leadership and meaningful employment — will hold its second Annual Community Heroes Gala on Nov. 3. The event, A Night at the Races, will take…
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Valley Forge Tourism Board Embraces the Area’s World-Series Red-Letter Days
The 2022 World Series, pitting the Philadelphia Phillies against the Houston Astros, is a big deal to fervent and casual fans alike. Across the county over the next five days, Montgomery Countians will be swathed in red, gathering in area bars and restaurants, cheering as they haven’t done since 2009 — the last time the…
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$30 Million from Anonymous Donor Funds Onsite Veterinary Hospital at Elmwood Park Zoo
An anonymous donor’s $30 million gift is bringing upgraded veterinary care to Elmwood Park Zoo in the form of a revised, onsite animal hospital. The donation will also aid in the construction of a new welcome center. Both projects are part of the zoo’s 2024 centennial celebration, for which a $150-million renovation plan will refresh…
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VFTCB Year in Review: Tourism’s Economic Impact Almost to Prepandemic Levels
The Valley Forge Tourism & Convention Board (VFTCB) shared an optimistic outlook for tourism in Montgomery County to 450 attendees at the organization’s first in-person annual luncheon in three years. The meeting, bearing a theme of “forge ahead” took place at the Sheraton Valley Forge in King of Prussia. High-Energy Setting The Sixers STIXERS Marching…
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Online App Lists Montco Residents Whose Halloween Lawn Décor Is Gruesomely Grand and Ickily Intricate
Outdoor Halloween decorations have come a long way since the days of a hastily hacked jack o’ lantern on the porch with a sputtering candle inside. A new app, FrightMaps, shows just how far they’ve come in Montgomery County. Investopedia calls Halloween the second-biggest retail holiday, behind only Christmas. Its financial analysts estimate that Americans…
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Oct. 17 Montco Planning Commission Meeting to Solicit Resident Ideas: What Will We Look Like in 2050?
The agenda for an Oct. 17 public meeting with the Montgomery County Planning Commission (MCPC) starts with a brief overview of the county’s comprehensive plan and its 2025 intended start date. From there, however, the focus shifts to residents — attending either in person or online — can ask questions and react to the long-term…
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Giving Away the Green: How a Center at Norristown Farm Park Serves the Community
A green resource center is opening its space to the Montgomery County community. Its ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Monday, headed by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS). The center is in Norristown Farm Park and will continue to support various organizations with its fresh produce, writes Marilyn Johnson for Newsbreak. The space so far has…
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Culinary Arts Institute Has Long History of Helping Countywide Hunger Drive, Testing Chefs’ Mettle with a Kettle
Since its 2015 inception, the fledgling chefs at Montgomery County Community College’s Culinary Arts Institute (CAI) have supported the Valley Forge Tourism and Convention Board effort to address the county’s food-insecurity issue, branded as its Freedom from Hunger initiative. The CAI’s ongoing contribution has generally been at the drive’s annual kick-off event. The announcement of…
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Integrate for Good Honors Area Family at Second Annual Community Heroes Gala, Nov. 3
Integrate for Good — a nonprofit organization empowering children and adults with disabilities to share their talents through inclusive volunteerism, community leadership and meaningful employment — will honor the McFarland family as its Community Hero of Year. The family, which owns Coffee Closet with Barista Jake in Norristown, will be celebrated at the organization’s second…
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If Montgomery County Halloween Events Were Pieces of Candy, Area Trick-or-Treat Bags Would Overflow
Haunted by the thoughts of missing out on Montgomery County’s bumper crop of Halloween celebrations? Fear not. The Valley Forge Tourism and Convention Board has assembled a Halloween event calendar with October events that are both monstrous and mild. Daily Fun Brick-or-Treat This Halloween, LEGO Monsters have taken over LEGOLAND Discovery Center Philadelphia and they’re…
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Michoacán Abuela’s Hand-Delivered Recipes Keep Norristown Restaurant Authentic for 25 Years
La Michoacana, a family-owned taqueria, has been serving Norristown for 25 years. Located at 301 E. Main Street, the menu offers has cuisine specific to the Mexican state of Michoacán, prepared from family recipes and techniques brought stateside — and handed off personally by the clan’s grandmother (abuela). 6abc spiced up a recent broadcast with…
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Former Kennedy-Kenrick High School Site: Out with Lockers/Lunch Rooms, In with Lawns/Living Rooms
The years-long effort to repurpose the Norristown real estate that once housed Kennedy-Kenrick High School has received preliminary approval of its progress. Justin Heinze did the deed of reporting the advances in the Norristown Patch. The latest round of tentative, green-lit details occurred Sept. 20, when Norristown’s Municipal Council agreed to the project’s associated resolution.…
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Lever-Pullers with Longevity: 55 Montco Voters Tick Enough Boxes to Make Pa. Voter Hall of Fame
As the 2022 election cycle trundles on, all the rhetoric, differences of opinion, and “I-approve-of-this-message” messaging may try the patience of some Montgomery County voters. But a select few have dedicated themselves so solidly to the electoral process that they enthusiastically participate anyway, keeping alive a decades-long streak of ballot casting. Those citizens have earned…
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‘One Book One Norristown’ Initiative Begins Effort to Turn the Page on Area Literacy
One Book One Norristown, a community effort designed to lift local literacy rates, kicked off on Sept. 24. The initiative — announced in Feb. — sits at the crossroads of reading and social justice, according to its organizers. Rachel Ravina produced a quite readable account of the program in The Times Herald. The event, on…
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Local Transportation Planner Climbs Aboard as Leader of Schuylkill River Passenger Rail Project
Schuylkill River Passenger Rail Authority (SRPRA) members voted unanimously to appoint Berwyn’s Thomas Frawley, P.E. Esq, as its Interim Executive Director. The action, effective immediately, was announced from the Montgomery County Office of Communications in Norristown. Frawley will guide the SRPRA through its efforts to restore passenger rail service between Reading and Phila. His role…
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Norristown Library’s Bookmobile Gives Seniors the WOW Factor
Montgomery County-Norristown Public Library is celebrating Healthy Aging month in style. Studies show that reading is good for cognitive function in senior citizens. And the Words on Wheels Program (WOW) helps aging communities do just that, writes M. English for The Mercury. The bookmobile service started around 1979 to provide seniors of Montgomery County…
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