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Radnor Commissioners OK 25-year Lease With Willows Park Preserve to Renovate Historic Mansion
The Radnor Board of Commissioners approved a new 25-year lease on June 24 with the Willows Park Preserve, a nonprofit group that plans to renovate the 100-year-old mansion in the park that’s fallen on hard times, writes Linda Stein for Main Line Media News. Under the new lease, the Willows Park Preserve will seek arboretum…
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New $15 an Hour Wage Hike Initiated July 1 at Elwyn
Elwyn launched its new Living Wage initiative July 1, guaranteeing direct support employees a base wage of at least $15 an hour by 2021. On July 1, 25 percent of Elwyn’s eligible workers were moved to the new wage, with all eligible employees—about 1,500 of them nationwide—achieving the new wage by 2021. The initiative is…
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Neumann Student: Social Media Champion for Spring City Mushrooms
Mushroom farms bring to mind images of dark grow houses with foul odors. Chat with Neumann University student Alyssa Cuesta, however, and those stereotypes will quickly disappear. Cuesta, a marketing major, is spending her summer interning at Woodland Jewel Mushrooms in Spring City, Pennsylvania. Her duties include promoting the farm on social media and shining…
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Bud and Marilyn’s at the Philadelphia Airport Makes Food Network’s Top Airport Restaurant List
The next time you find yourself in a holding pattern at the Philadelphia Airport, you might want to head over to Bud and Marilyn’s. The restaurant made the Food Network’s list of the best airport restaurants in the United States, according to Samantha Lande for Food Network. Bud and Marilyn’s is located between Terminal B…
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Upper Darby School District Takes Clifton to Court Over Planned Middle School
The Upper Darby School District has filed an appeal in court challenging ordinances Clifton Heights Borough Council passed in May that would make it harder for the district to build a new middle school on Clifton’s 14-acre athletic field, writes Kevin Tustin for the Daily Times. The school district filed a notice of land use…
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Williamson College of the Trades in Media Brings Life Values to Boys While Teaching a Trade
There’s more to the Williamson College of the Trades in Media than the important task of teaching a trade. It’s also fulfilling its founding mission to prepare qualified young men to be respected leaders and productive members of society. “The core values of Williamson College of the Trades are faith, integrity, diligence, excellence and service,”…
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Wayne Girl Makes the Times Square Billboard With Migraine Ad
For two weeks in June, a 13-year-old Wayne girl was the face of pediatric migraines on a giant billboard above Times Square, writes Linda Stein for Main Line Media News. “It was really cool,” said Lexi DiMarino, an 8th grader at St. Katharine of Siena School. Her dad, Keith DiMarino, entered her into a contest…
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Upper Darby Artist Creates Featured Works Thanks to Vision Thru Art Program
Rhonda Gray-Upsey, 47, of Upper Darby likes to create functional art. In 2010 she lost her vision completely for a year due to intercranial hypertension. She regained some vision after surgery but lacks peripheral vision and has limited depth perception. Nevertheless, thanks to the Vision Thru Art program in Mt. Airy, she and dozens of…
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The Foundation for Delaware County Announces 2019 Grant-making Cycle
The Foundation for Delaware County has launched its second competitive grant-making cycle and has posted a formal Request for Proposals (RFP) on its website www.delcofoundation.org. Letters of intent will be due online on July 26, 2019 and organizations will be notified Aug. 19, 2019 if they are selected to submit a full proposal. Invited…
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America’s Oldest “Hielo Italiano” Manufacturer, Rosati Ice, Debuts Hispanic Marketing Campaign
Inspired by the cuisines of Mexico and Latin American, Rosati Ice, America’s original Italian ice manufacturer, is introducing seven new flavors for the 2019 summer season. Rosati’s “Hielo Italiano” (Italian Ice) line is rolling-out at United Supermarkets in Philadelphia, New Jersey, Texas and New Mexico. “One of the largest and fastest growing food trends in…
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Upstart Reno Firm Swallows Up Caesars, Including Harrah’s Casino in Chester
Eldorado Resorts Inc.’s $8.58 billion acquisition of Caesars Entertainment Corp. means an underdog from Reno, Nevada will become the largest owner of casinos in the U.S., including Harrah’s Casino and Racetrack in Chester, writes Christopher Palmeri for the Philadelphia Inquirer. In the deal, Caesars shareholders will receive about $12.75 a share, including $8.40 in cash.…
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Medical Marijuana facility Opens in Chester With the Promise of 100 Jobs
Chester officials celebrated the opening of Agri-Kind, a medical marijuana facility on Broomall Street with a ribbon cutting Saturday, writes Colin Ainsworth for the Daily Times. “This day makes a huge milestone in the growth of our organization, and the growth of the redevelopment of Chester,” said Jon Cohn, CEO of the Exton-based Agronomed Pharmaceuticals,LLC,…
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Prendie Campus Project Getting Up and Down Votes From School Boards
Delaware County Community College officials are visiting the college’s 12 sponsoring school districts to convince them to support a $55 million capital improvement bond for a new campus at the former Prendergast High School, writes Kevin Tustin for the Daily Times. The support of two-thirds of the college’s sponsoring school districts is needed to create…
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Ridley High Graduate Reconnects With Vietnamese Family
Mark Chew, a Ridley High School graduate, and a successful restaurateur, continues to connect with his family in Vietnam, writes Steve Cahalan for the La Crosse Tribune. Chew operates nine restaurants in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland. Chew, 58, is an adopted Vietnamese native who came to the U.S. in 1972 at age 11, living…
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Boeing’s Focus on Safety, Not Sales, Netted Results at Paris Air Show
Boeing Co. arrived at the world’s largest aerospace extravaganza, the Paris Air Show, battling the biggest crisis in its history. It departs having secured a crucial vote of confidence in its beleaguered 737 MAX jetliner and the prospect of further orders, writes Robert Wall and Andrew Tangel for the Wall Street Journal. Boeing’s efforts to…
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Another Delco Hotel, Candlewood Suites, Opens in Downtown Chester
Chester City officials gathered June 20 to mark the opening of the new Candlewood Suites at Third and Welsh streets, ending a decades-long absence of hotels in the downtown area, writes Colin Ainsworth for Delaware County News Network. The ribbon-cutting ceremony by developer Sailesh “Sam” Patel and officials brought a two-year construction process and decade…
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Shop Destroyed, Delco Barber, 84, Finds New Temporary Home in a Beauty Salon
Joe Reilly was walking up the stairs from his barbershop when he heard a bomb going off, writes Anna Orso for the Philadelphia Inquirer. The 84-year-old barber found, not a bomb, but a red Subaru entirely inside his Aston storefront. Five employees and a patron inside were missed but the front of Reilly’s 54-year-old business…
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From Upper Darby, She Was at Stonewall Inn the Night of the Uprising 50 Years Ago
The Stonewall uprising is a source of inspiration for the modern transgender right movement. Some accounts of the riots say that trans women led the resistance against police. For a long time their stories weren’t well known, but that’s beginning to change, writes Tim McLaughlin for KYW Newsradio. Nance Lomax grew up in Upper Darby.…
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