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Chester Upland Soccer for Success to Host 4th Annual Spring Play Day; Sponsors Needed
Chester Upland Soccer for Success will host its 4th Annual Spring Play Day on Wednesday, April 19, and sponsors are needed. More than 200 children in grades K-8 from 12 participating Delaware County schools will gather for a round-robin soccer tournament held at the STEM Academy at Showalter, located at 1100 West 10th Street in…
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Delaware County Careers – SAP
With its North American headquarters located in Newtown Square, SAP is a market leader in enterprise application software, helping companies of all sizes and industries innovate through simplification. Product Marketing Expert This position defines, optimizes, and implements messages and content to support customer decision-making, contributes to planning for live events and webinars, and cultivates strong customer references…
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For Jay Wright and Villanova Basketball, Attitude Is Everything
Obsessive media attention, rock-star status, and unrelenting expectations follow every step of Villanova’s basketball team, but coach Jay Wright has for 16 years trained his players to keep the team at the center of everything. It’s a lesson about attitude that defies traditional basketball wisdom, according to a G.Q. feature by Larry Platt. When Wright first…
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Newtown Square’s SAP Makes Its Debut on Fortune’s Best Employers List
Newtown Square’s SAP America has made its debut on Fortune’s annual list of its 100 best employers, landing at No. 59, writes Michelle Caffrey for the Philadelphia Business Journal. The North American headquarters of the German enterprise software company has secured a spot on the list, thanks to its global employment opportunities and the unshakeable…
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Check Out Where Philly Ranks Among America’s Best Cities for St. Patrick’s Day Parties
If you’re looking for one of the nation’s best St. Patrick’s Day parties, Philadelphia is your pot of gold. Expect to see lots of green today from the city that WalletHub ranked No. 9 on its 200-long list of 2017’s Best Cities for St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations. Philly lucked out with favorable marks on 16…
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Eastern University Welcomes Theological School to Its Campus as Part of Nationwide Trend
Eastern University in St. Davids has made room for another school on its campus as theological schools across the country are bending under the pressure of falling enrollment, forcing them to consolidate and sell off properties, writes Kristin Holmes for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Intake at theological schools nationwide is following diminishing church attendance, going from…
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Man Tells Story of His 4,000-Mile Walk That Began in Chadds Ford in New Book
Four thousand miles and five years after he left his mother’s home in Chadds Ford to embark on a journey across America, Andrew Forsthoefel is retelling his experience in a book, writes Karen Brown for New England Public Radio. “When I committed to a long-distance through-hike, walking became both my lover and my enemy,” he…
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Local Nonprofits That Make Region Healthier Can Win $40,000
GlaxoSmithKline and The Philadelphia Foundation are issuing a call for applications for the 2017 GSK IMPACT Awards. This annual awards program recognizes local nonprofit organizations that are addressing everyday health barriers in communities across the five-county region. “At GSK, we know that health is about so much more than going to the doctor,” said Becki…
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Delaware County Careers – VWR
Headquartered in Radnor, VWR is the leading independent provider of products, services, and solutions to laboratory and production facilities for customers in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, industrial, education, government, and healthcare industries. Associate Contract Management Specialist This position drafts, reviews, revises, and manages standard and non-standard customer, supplier, and other non-disclosure agreements and contract amendments, while managing…
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Fight over Delco’s Scant Open Space Leads to Three Lawsuits in Two Years
Housing developers who followed township growth plans in proposing new projects are now suing after the local governments backtracked on promises. A surge in public opinion has created immense pressure on what remains of Delaware County’s scant open space, and three such fights have landed in court over the past two years, according to a…
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MLS Commissioner Praises Philadelphia Union
The rising success of Chester’s Major League Soccer team has even caught the attention of the professional sport’s commissioner — and most impressive is the program producing the future stars of the Philadelphia Union. MLS Commissioner Don Garber recently visited the Union Academy complex in Wayne after its first graduate, Derrick Jones, recently started in…
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Task Force Assigned to Turn Around Cheyney University
There’s a new club on the campus of Cheyney University that’s serious about doing its homework, and these students of the college’s struggling finances could turn in a term paper in May that alters the course of the nation’s first historically black college. The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education has assigned a task force…
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Delaware County Careers – IMS Technology Services
Based in Garnet Valley, IMS Technology Services is an award-winning team of certified technology professionals who provide high-quality solutions to facilitate collaboration, productivity, learning, and business communication. Lead Installation Technician This position installs hardware, infrastructure, and technology components throughout a project, provides detailed site status reports to the project manager, and completes needed maintenance, organization, and upkeep…
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Competition Weeding Out Region’s Medical Marijuana Bidders
The stakes are especially high for Pennsylvania’s first two licenses to grow, process, and distribute marijuana for medical purposes, and some big names are helping weed out the flood of applicants. Atop the list of what could be 25 or more bidders in the Philadelphia region are “an automotive-repair chain magnate, the daughter of the…
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SCORE Offers Small Business Educational Workshops for First Time in Delaware County
Chester and Delaware County SCORE will be offering, for the first time in Delaware County, “How to Start and Operate a Small Business” and “Business Planning – a Series of Four Workshops.” These workshops will be held at the Delaware County Chamber of Commerce at 1001 Baltimore Pike, Suite 9LL, in Springfield. How to Start…
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Ten Things You Might Not Know About Sunoco Logistics and Mariner East 2
With ground now broken for its Mariner East 2 pipeline project, Sunoco Logistics is a name you often hear in the news. The project, which spans 350 miles, is an extension of the company’s existing Mariner East pipeline system, and will transport natural gas liquids from Ohio and western Pennsylvania to the Marcus Hook Industrial…
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Neumann University to Host Expert with Controversial Theory on Addiction
Dr. Bruce Alexander will explain his controversial theory that addiction is an adaptation to social and cultural dislocation rather than a disease on March 30 at Neumann University. The presentation is scheduled for 2 PM in the Meagher Theatre. Based on his experiment entitled “The View from Rat Park,” Dr. Alexander’s proposition is that society’s…
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Your Best Year Ever: Take Things to the Next Level
By Michael Gidlewski With an energizing and enriching morning power hour propelling your every day forward, a reshuffled schedule putting strategic thinking ahead of inbox minutia, and visible reminders redirecting you back to your overarching mission, vision, purpose, and values, you’ll be set up to seize the opportunity to experience your best year ever. Now…
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