• Ikea aims to make a better meatless meatball

    Ikea aims to make a better meatless meatball

    Ikea is hopping on the plant-based protein bandwagon, reports fox5sandiego.com. Ikea is a Swedish owned multinational retailer well known for its ready-to-assemble furniture and Swedish meatballs. The Swedish company has been the largest furniture retailer in the world since 2008. The company is working on a new version of its famous Swedish meatballs that “looks…

  • Mid Penn Bank announces training investment to fight sudden cardiac arrest

    Mid Penn Bank announces training investment to fight sudden cardiac arrest

    Mid Penn Bank and The Peyton Walker Foundation today announced the creation of a new life-saving initiative to combat Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) – one of the leading causes of death among Americans. Through the Foundation, Mid Penn will invest in training and certification of its employees in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), the use of Automated…

  • Horsham-based Toll Brothers’ earnings exceed expectations

    Horsham-based Toll Brothers’ earnings exceed expectations

    Toll Brothers, Inc., the nation’s leading builder of luxury homes, today announced results for its second quarter ended April 30, 2019: net income and earnings per share were $129.3 million and $0.87 per share diluted, compared to net income of $111.8 million and $0.72 per share diluted in FY 2018’s second quarter;  pre-tax income grew…

  • Plymouth Township recognizes retiring Police Chief

    Plymouth Township recognizes retiring Police Chief

    The Plymouth Township Council, on Monday night, honored Police Chief Joseph F. Lawrence, who will retire from his 32-year career with the township on June 2. Lawrence, who became a member of the Plymouth Township Police Department on Aug. 24, 1987, has served as chief since Aug. 11, 2008. “It’s truly been an honor and…

  • Multiple recognitions for Bala Cynwyd-based Manko, Gold, Katcher and Fox attorneys

    Multiple recognitions for Bala Cynwyd-based Manko, Gold, Katcher and Fox attorneys

    Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox, LLP, the environmental, energy and land use law firm based in the Philadelphia region, congratulates its partners Robert D. Fox, Carol F. McCabe, and Nicole R. Moshang for being included in the attorney top lists of Pennsylvania. Fox was included in the Top 100 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers list.  Fox was…

  • First drafted black NFL player born in Montco

    First drafted black NFL player born in Montco

    Wally Triplett, the first black player drafted to the NFL, is 90 years old now and slowing down. While sitting down to answer questions in his Russell Woods neighborhood home, Triplett is wearing a shirt that reads, “NFL” “1949” “Negros Finally Listed,” writes Scott Decamp for MLive.com. [uam_ad id=”54865″] Decamp describes Triplett as a kind…

  • Mack-Cali Realty puts three potential apartment parcels up for sale

    Mack-Cali Realty puts three potential apartment parcels up for sale

    Three sites approved for multifamily development have recently been put on the market in Bala Cynwyd and Conshohocken, writes Natalie Kostelni of phillybizjournal.com. Bala Cynwyd and Conshohocken have both been under development over the last decade, mostly with the construction of new apartments. The development has been approved of by the members of the communities, and…

  • Blue Bell attorney inducted into Penn Athletics Hall of Fame

    Blue Bell attorney inducted into Penn Athletics Hall of Fame

    Wisler Pearlstine, LLP is pleased to announce that partner Mary J. Pedersen was inducted into the Penn Athletics Hall of Fame Class of XI on May 4, 2019. To be eligible for consideration into the Penn Athletics Hall of Fame as a student-athlete, a candidate must have graduated from the University or been a member…

  • Area businesses to exhibit at Montgomery County’s largest expo

    Area businesses to exhibit at Montgomery County’s largest expo

    The Chamber of Commerce for Greater Montgomery County, the largest business organization in the County, will hold their annual Business Expo on Thursday, June 6 at Montgomery County Community College, a new location for the 29th annual event. The Expo is open to the public and free to attend with a business card. A lunch…

  • NoBA Artspaces in Bala Cynwyd announces a final “Encore” exhibition

    NoBA Artspaces in Bala Cynwyd announces a final “Encore” exhibition

    NoBA Artspaces hosts a final “Encore” exhibition bringing together four artists who have each had solo shows at NoBA Artspaces in the past. Elyce Abrams, Matt Allyn Chapman, Timothy Gierschick, and Ben Weaver now return to NoBA as a group, demonstrating their careful, studied attention to form (line, color, shape, texture) and composition (edge, surface, juxtaposition, pattern).…

  • i76 Solutions expands and relocates headquarters to Plymouth Meeting

    i76 Solutions expands and relocates headquarters to Plymouth Meeting

    i76 Solutions is a strategic marketing agency, and a partner to Google, that connects brands to consumers through digital marketing. i76 Solutions is excited to announce the relocation and expansion of its headquarters to 676 W. Germantown Pike in Plymouth Meeting, PA, according to prweb.com. The old historic building that will serve as their new…

  • Crayola Experience adds four new attractions for Summer 2019

    Crayola Experience adds four new attractions for Summer 2019

    Just when you thought you couldn’t have more fun at Crayola Experience, the Easton family destination has added four new attractions to the 2019 lineup. Opening this summer, Scribble Scrubbies will make a colorful splash. Guests will be able to immerse themselves in a larger-than-life experience with Crayola’s hottest, award-winning toy that fits in the palm of…

  • 2 Shemtob Draganosky Taylor attorneys named 2019 PA Super Lawyers

    2 Shemtob Draganosky Taylor attorneys named 2019 PA Super Lawyers

    Montgomery County family law firm Shemtob Draganosky Taylor is pleased to announce that two of its attorneys have been recognized for their prowess in family law by being named among 2019 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers, a program of Thomson Reuters. Firm founding partner Lori K. Shemtob has been named a Super Lawyer for the 14th year…

  • Montgomery County Community College’s VP of Information Technology serves as 2019 commencement speaker

    Montgomery County Community College’s VP of Information Technology serves as 2019 commencement speaker

    Not many people today can boast about a 50-year career at one organization, but Montgomery County Community College’s Vice President of Information Technology and Chief Digital Officer Dr. Celeste M. Schwartz is the exception. As she begins her 50th year at a place that is almost a second home with colleagues who are like family, Dr.…

  • Willow School founder Kym Ramsey wins veteran small business award

    Willow School founder Kym Ramsey wins veteran small business award

    By D’Lara Scott The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) recognized Kym Ramsey founder and owner of the Willow school, May 9th, as the 2019 Eastern Pennsylvania veteran small business owner of the year. Founded in 2012, The Willow School located in the heart of Norristown focuses on the development of each student. Their mission is…

  • Celebrate Bike to Work Day with Montgomery County

    Celebrate Bike to Work Day with Montgomery County

    GVF, a not-for-profit organization created to advocate and promote a viable transportation network for the region’s economic vitality, is excited to be partnering with Valley Forge Historical National Park, elected officials, companies and prominent leaders throughout the region, to host its 8th annual Bike to Work Day event on Friday, May 17, 2019. Rain date scheduled for…

  • High Swartz attorneys named among PA Super Lawyers and Rising Stars

    High Swartz attorneys named among PA Super Lawyers and Rising Stars

     High Swartz LLP, a full-service law firm with offices in Norristown and Doylestown, Pennsylvania, is pleased to announce that  11 of its attorneys have been named among Pennsylvania’s 2019 Super Lawyers and Rising Stars. Among the highlights are two inclusions on the 50 Top Female Lawyers in Pennsylvania list going to Melissa M. Boyd and…

  • Hatboro-Horsham teacher nominated for PA Teacher of the Year

    Hatboro-Horsham teacher nominated for PA Teacher of the Year

    The Wolf Administration announced the 12 finalists for the 2020 Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year. “Teaching is more than a profession; it is a calling,” Education Secretary Pedro A. Rivera said. “Teachers spend their lives educating and serving students, inspiring them to recognize their potential and to achieve their goals. The Department of Education applauds…