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Forbes ranks MCCC as one of the Best-in-State Employers for 2019
Forbes recently ranked Montgomery County Community College as one of the best employers in Pennsylvania for 2019. MCCC was the only community college to make the inaugural list of 60 top employers, according to a press release. Forbes, in partnership with the market research company, Statista, selected America’s Best-in-State Employers based on an independent survey from…
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Helena Devereux featured in exhibit honoring Pennsylvania women who made history
Helena T. Devereux, special education pioneer and founder of Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health, is featured in a new exhibit at the Pennsylvania Governor’s Residence in Harrisburg that honors the achievements of 32 Pennsylvania women over the past 100 years. The exhibit, titled “Game Changers: Pennsylvania Women Who Made History,” coincides with the 100th anniversary of the state’s ratification of…
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Montco teen wins $3 million in Fortnite tournament
The first winner of the Fortnite World Championship, held in New York City last weekend, was a 16-year old kid from Pottsgrove, PA. He became a multi-millionaire overnight, writes Paige Gross for Technical.ly. Kyle “Bugha” Giersdorf is his name. He fought his way through professional players and world-famous online streamers to win the $3 million…
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Benefit for the Brain 2019 to be held at The Highlands in Fort Washington
Please Join Us for a New Twist on an Annual Event! The 8th annual Benefit for the Brain will be held on Wednesday, November 13, 2019 from 5:00pm – 7:00pm at The Highlands in Fort Washington. This event highlights the need for both medical and non-medical research and services for mental illness. Each year we…
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Eastern State Penitentiary screens new animated films created by currently-incarcerated artists
Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site debuts its latest project, Hidden Lives Illuminated, on August 15, 2019. The month-long project features nightly screenings of newly-commissioned, animated short films created by artists incarcerated at the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution at Chester and Philadelphia’s Riverside Correctional Facility for Women. Using a concert-grade digital projector, films will be screened onto…
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First major apartment construction in decades planned for the Main Line
A real estate company plans to start major developments on the Main Line including an $18 million apartment complex in Narberth, writes Natalie Kostelni for Philadelphia Business Journal. In addition to the apartment complex, there are two more multi-family development projects planned for Narberth currently in the approval process. These projects will be the first major development…
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King of Prussia office building coming down
Brandywine Realty Trust (BRT) is razing an old office building at 650 Park Ave. in King of Prussia. The publicly traded real estate company said it will not begin development of a new $39 million proposed four-story, 100,000-square-foot replacement until it has a tenant in place, writes Natalie Kostleni for Philadelphia Business Journal. BRT received…
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J.P. Mascaro & Sons awarded $7.5 million in contracts
Local waste service company J. P. Mascaro & Sons, a solid waste industry leader in this regional area, continues to grow its business in the municipal sector. Recently, Mascaro was awarded more than $7.5 million in competitively bid long-term municipal waste collection and recycling contracts. Mascaro company Director of Sales, Sam Augustine, said, “Our company…
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Q&A with Bluestone Country Club’s Kris Fair
Mid-Atlantic Events magazine publisher and editor Jim Cohn recently sat down with Kris Fair, general manager of Bluestone Country Club, in Whitpain Township. Jim: Kris, what have been some of the highlights of your career? Kris: Jim, we’ve known each other for at least three decades. In those early years, I’d have pointed out the…
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Eagleville Hospital fined $2.85 million
A whistleblower, someone who has information of unethical or illegal activity of a company, usually from an insider’s perspective, as come forward to help uncover a substantial amount of false claims being submitted by a local treatment center in Lower Providence Township. United States Attorney William McSwain announced today that Eagleville Hospital, located at 100…
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GNC to close nearly a thousand stores
The nutritional supplement giant, with about 4,100 locations across the country, has about 20 locations in Montco. It is not clear how many of the Montgomery County stores will be closing. GNC has confirmed that it will close as many as 900 stores nationwide this year, writes Dees Stribling for biznow.com. The company will be…
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Adam Van Zelst ready to take reins of Arcadia University basketball program
By Mark Schiele [gap height=”10″] He grew up in Bucks County and thrived in Berks County. But now, Adam Van Zelst has landed in Montgomery County as the head men’s basketball coach at Arcadia University. [gap height=”10″] Van Zelst was recently introduced as the new men’s basketball coach at the Glenside school. He brings an…
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Dunkin’ awards $50,000 in academic scholarships to regional students
Dunkin’ and its greater Philadelphia-area franchisees, in partnership with Scholarship America, today announced the recipients of its tenth annual Regional Scholarship Program, which helps high school seniors and college students in Southeastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey and Kent and New Castle counties in Delaware pursue a part-time or full-time undergraduate degree at the institution of…
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Korean ambassador to visit Montco to break ground for new monument
Ambassador Hyo Sung Park, Consulate General for the Republic of Korea in New York, will attend the ground-breaking ceremony for a new memorial to those who fought and died in the Korean War being built as part of a cultural exchange park in Montgomery Township, Montgomery County, PA. on Friday, July 19, 2019 at 11:30…
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Free “Touch a Truck” event in Norristown to feature 25 working vehicles
The Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office and the Norristown Municipal Police Department will be hosting a “Touch a Truck” event at 1800 Markley Street in Norristown from 4 to 7 p.m., on Saturday, July 20, according to a press release. This free family-friendly event will feature more than 25 different working vehicles used in the…
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Pottstown GoFourth! Festival organizers secure first sponsorship for 2020 event
Organizers are calling the 3rd annual Pottstown GoFourth! Festival a big success, in spite of the late-afternoon rain that drenched festival goers and threatened the fireworks finale show. Following the 4th of July parade presented by the Pottstown Rotary Club, the Festival kicked off with the singing of the National Anthem, crowning of the Royal…
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NJCAA honors nine MCCC student-athletes for academic excellence
The National Junior College Athletics Association (NJCAA) recently recognized nine student-athletes at Montgomery County Community College for achieving superior grade point averages while they competed in intercollegiate sports during 2018-19, according to a press release. Student-athletes are eligible to earn NJCAA’s academic honors by achieving an overall GPA of 3.6 or higher. The criteria for…
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Plymouth-based AdaptHealth to go public in merger deal
Plymouth Meeting-based distributor of home medical equipment AdaptHealth is going public after a deal with DFB Healthcare Acquisitions Corp. a combined company with a $800 million market capitalization. The deal will join After completion of the deal, writes John George in the Philadelphia Business Journal, which will join AdaptHealth with DFB Healthcare Acquisitions Corp. plans…
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