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Delaware County Leadership: Nicholas M. Orloff, Esq.
Nicholas M. Orloff, Esq., an attorney with Media-based Raffaele Puppio and who’s practice focuses on estate planning, estate administration and orphans’ court litigation, talks with DELCO Today about growing up in Springfield, working at the Footlocker in the Springfield Mall, graduating Valedictorian of Widener Law School’s Class of 2005, his favorite weekend-getaway and how the best piece…
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New Book Unwraps Sweetest Place on Earth’s History
Peter Kurie, a Princeton-trained anthropologist has written a book about the Hershey Company and its history, writes Michael Lindgren Torres for The Washington Post. In the book titled ‘In Chocolate We Trust: The Hershey Company Town Unwrapped’ Kurie takes a look at the company, community and its history. He writes about how Hershey founded the…
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Create a Walkway Safety Program for Your School
By Vince Del Rossi Now more than ever before, the discussion of student safety has been a trending topic within major news outlets, social media, and around many kitchen tables. Whether the outside risks or dangers be big or small, all students deserve to feel safe and comfortable while learning in their classrooms. Though certain risks require a…
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From CHESCO: Golf Digest: Kennett Square Home to Perhaps Greatest Golf Story Ever Told
For a three-month span in the summer of 2012, the third hole at the Kennett Square Golf and Country Club served as the beginning and end to perhaps the greatest golf story ever told, writes Max Adler for Golf Digest. It was there where Vic Dupuis – competing in a club ritual, an event that…
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Young Scientists Determined to Put Stop to Cycle of Mass Shootings
Publisher’s note: This is the first in a series of occasional and ongoing posts focused on fostering an ongoing and civil discussion of gun rights and violence in the United States. A wave of young scientists are determined to stop the cycle of mass shootings by entering the gun research arena despite a lack of funding, available…
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From CHESCO: Unexpected Visitor Excites Students at West Chester’s March for Our Lives
The March for Our Lives in West Chester on Saturday had an unexpected visitor in Jay Leno, former host of NBC’s The Tonight Show, according to a report from 6ABC. Leno was in the area with his wife for a car show. They decided to stop by the student-led demonstration, hundreds of which were held…
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From CHESCO: Congressman Costello Will Not Seek Reelection for 6th Congressional District
Representative Ryan Costello is not planning to seek reelection for Pennsylvania’s 6th Congressional District in this year’s House election, according to several news accounts including staff report from CW39. Costello, who is a Republican, was facing a difficult run in his district and now plans to retire at the end of his term. The decision…
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Top Ten Accessories to Help Your Bathroom Get With The Times
The loo, washroom, powder room, commode: The bathroom. This ubiquitous room doesn’t change much from household to household but as we are in the 21st century it’s time to welcome your water closet to 2018. Here’s a list of accessories that you may have overlooked when you were last decorating. Threse will update your bathroom…
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From CHESCO: Dick Vermeil Knew Doug Pederson Was Right Choice for Eagles
Former Philadelphia Eagles coach Dick Vermeil, a resident of East Fallowfield, was a big proponent of hiring Doug Pederson as the team’s coach, despite opposition at the time, writes Steve Bennett for the Hazleton Standard-Speaker. “What I first saw was a great background and history as a backup quarterback in the league,” said Vermeil. “A…
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From CHESCO: Westtown School in National Spotlight with Release of New Basketball Documentary
Most of us living here in Chester County are familiar with the Westtown School because of its stellar academic reputation, as well as its 600-acre, slice-of-heaven campus that includes a lake, arboretum, and organic farm tucked away in West Chester. Now, the rest of America, particularly sports fans, will soon learn of the school for…
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GOP’s Challenge of New Congressional District Map Rejected by Federal Judges and U.S. Supreme Court
The Republican challenges of the new Pennsylvania congressional district map have been rejected by federal District Court and the U.S. Supreme Court one day before congressional candidates filed their nominating petitions, write Jonathan Lai & Liz Navratil for Philly.com. Republicans were asking to block the new map from going into effect for the primary that…
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“You Are Enough: Keeping It 100 With Yourself” Empowers People to Overcome Traps from Their Past
“You Are Enough: Keeping It 100 With Yourself” by Lisa Wright Bryant is a book/ journal that encourages people to face their past and present problems and live life to the fullest, writes Bill Rettew for Daily Local News. The Chester author’s aim is to empower people by giving them strategies to help overcome their…
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Wall Street Journal: How to Be Smarter About Using Email at Work
Research by experts in psychology, management, and linguistics has been looking into the smartest ways to use email at work, writes Andrew Blackman for The Wall Street Journal. While most of us tend to reply to an email promptly, it turns out that those companies with quick response times have more stressed out and less…
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From MONTCO: Conshohocken Billionaire a Potential Bidder for Carolina Panthers
Michael Rubin, owner of the Conshohocken-based sports merchandise company Fanatics, is reportedly on the list of bidders for the Carolina Panthers, according to reports. The internet entrepreneur is said to be “very interested in owning the hometown NFL franchise, sources told CNBC. Rubin, who has an estimated net worth of $3 billion, also owns minority stakes…
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From CHESCO: Superstars of Country Music to Headline Three-Day Festival This Summer in Glenmoore
Country music superstars Alabama, Toby Keith, and Brad Paisley will headline a new, three-day country music festival coming to Chester County’s Brandywine Valley from Aug. 24-26. Heralded as “the greatest country band of all time,” Alabama will headline on Aug. 24. Toby Keith, one of the modern era’s biggest superstars, will headline on Aug. 25.…
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‘Behemoth’ Revisits the Glory Days of Manufacturing
‘Behemoth’ by Joshua B. Freeman goes back in time to the glory days of manufacturing when they were the driving force in the emergence of the modern world, writes Jennifer Szalai for The New York Times. However, the book is much more than just economic history. It follows the rise of the factory and how…
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Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame to Induct Former WCU Quarterback, 9/11 Hero
Michael Horrocks, the West Chester University graduate who lost his life in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, will be inducted into the Capital Area Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame, writes Eric Epler for the Harrisburg Patriot-News. Horrocks’s tragic death touched many people in the region. He was First Officer of…
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Two New Books Teach Parents How to Balance Digital and Real Life for Their Children
Two new books, “The Art of Screen Time” by Anya Kamenetz and “Be The Parent, Please” by Naomi Schaefer Riley, examine the effects of too much screen time on children. They also offer anxious parents practical advice on how to handle the balance between their children’s digital and real lives, writes Pamela Druckerman for The…
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