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Darby Appoints First Black Female Police Chief in PA
Regina Price is set to make history by becoming the first female police chief in Delaware County, as well as the first African-American female police chief in the state of Pennsylvania, according to the Delco Times. The Darby Township Board of Commissioners unanimously hired Price in March. She is scheduled to be sworn in next…
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Wayne’s B Lab to Pull Conference from North Carolina Because of Bathroom Law
Wayne’s B Lab, a nonprofit that created and awards the B Corporation certification for for-profit organizations, will move its annual conference from North Carolina unless the state changes its law regarding public bathroom use, writes Jane M. Von Bergen of the Philadelphia Inquirer. North Carolina law requires people to use public bathrooms based on the…
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Radnor’s Airgas Splits South Distribution in Two
Radnor’s Airgas, Inc. has announced the reorganization of its South distribution region into two separate regions within the Company’s South Division, according to Industrial Distribution magazine. Through its subsidiaries, Airgas is the largest American distributor of industrial, medical, and specialty gases, and hard goods. The company’s redefined South Region is headquartered in Tampa, Florida, and…
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Irish Drug Company Appoints President of U.S. Operations in Radnor
Adapt Pharma, the Dublin, Ireland-based drug company, has appointed Mike Kelly as president of U.S. operations, located in Radnor, writes John George of the Philadelphia Business Journal. The company is renowned as the maker of the Narcan nasal spray used to treat patients suffering from overdoses of heroin and other opioid medicines. Kelly will be…
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House of the Week: Fairy-Tale Cottage in Villanova
The relatively small lot – 0.27 acres – cannot dampen the beautiful exterior of this four-bedroom, three-bath property at 29 Aldwyn Lane in Villanova, writes Matthew Sheridan of Philadelphia Magazine. The Tudor house has cream stucco with blue wood-beam accents, a color combination that you don’t see very often. There are also green shutters and…
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Villanova’s Championship Bittersweet for One Delco Family
When Villanova recently knocked off North Carolina to win its second NCAA championship, it was a bittersweet moment for the family of Pasquale Dougherty, according to Action News. Dougherty, who earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering from Villanova and who flew to Kentucky to witness the historic upset over Georgetown in 1985, was…
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Wawa Gifts $5 Million to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
The Wawa Foundation, a nonprofit corporation founded by the Delco-based convenience store chain, has gifted $5 million to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, writes John George of the Philadelphia Business Journal. The West Philadelphia hospital plans to formally announce the gift during a ceremony Tuesday morning to dedicate its newly constructed, 1,500-square-foot Wawa Volunteer Center…
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Neumann’s Website Nets Marketing Firm Award
Neumann University’s recruitment website and Viewbook have netted a Merit award for the higher-education marketing firm – Paskill Stapleton & Lord in Glenside in Montgomery County – that designed them. The award was part of a competition sponsored by the Higher Education Marketing Report (HEMR). PS&L struck gold in another competition, sponsored by College and…
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Drexel Professors Receive Grant to Study Delaware River Basin after State Receives a D Grade in Water Infrastructure
Four Drexel University professors will receive $190,000 to fund their projects for the Delaware River Watershed Initiative, which aims to protect and restore the Delaware River Basin’s water quality and overall ecological health, writes Dan Norton of the Philadelphia Business Journal. The grants are financed by the William Penn Foundation and administered through Drexel’s Academy…
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Co-CEOs Transform Chester’s Power Home Remodeling into Forward-Thinking Enterprise
Asher Raphael and Corey Schiller – ages 36 and 34, respectively – have created an innovative culture as the co-CEOs of Power Home Remodeling and transformed the Chester-based company into a millennial-friendly enterprise, according to a feature in Philadelphia Magazine. The result has been massive growth and increased profits for the 24-year-old company. Raphael and…
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Radnor’s NewSpring Invests $20 Million in Past Week
NewSpring Capital, a venture capital firm based in Radnor, invested more than $20 million in a pair of companies last week, writes Dan Norton of the Philadelphia Business Journal. NewSpring dedicated $12.8 million to Altus, a Kenner, La.-based commercial debt collection agency. Now licensed in every state, Altus is one of the largest of such…
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Lansdowne at Center of Hunt for Secret Nazi Diary
Robert Wittman, the head of the FBI’s art-crime team in Philadelphia, has collaborated with Pulitzer Prizing-winning author and journalist David Kinney to write The Devil’s Diary – the story of the pair’s hunt for the missing diary of Alfred Rosenberg, a high-ranking Nazi, and the deadly epic story it illuminates. Interestingly, Wittman and Kinney’s odyssey…
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Havertown Baker Talks Sugar Art with PhillyVoice before Appearance on Food Network
Havertown baker Dan Langan got into baking after spending ample time in the kitchen with grandma as a child, writes Brandon Baker of PhillyVoice. Now the 26-year-old is a self-described sugar artist who taught himself how to bake while working as a personal fitness trainer. Langan operates his cake and pastries business, Baked by Dan,…
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SAP’s McDermott Wins Almost Half a Million for Charity in CEO Tournament Pool
Bill McDermott, the CEO of software giant SAP in Newtown Square, picked against the school just down the road from his house, the college where his friend, Father Peter Donohue, is president, and the place where he attends Sunday Mass when he’s in town. Unlike his father and son, who both correctly picked Villanova to…
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Art from Philadelphia Museum Coming to Lansdowne, Upper Darby
Lansdowne and Upper Darby residents will soon be discovering outdoor installations of masterpieces from the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the unlikeliest of places – right under their noses. With the support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Museum is launching the 2016 season of Inside Out, a major initiative that…
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Swarthmore College Trying to Rectify Poor Verizon Service on Campus and Beyond
Swarthmore College is currently negotiating terms of an agreement with Verizon and an independent cell-tower construction company, according to a report in The Phoenix, the college’s independent newspaper. Joel Cooper, Swarthmore’s Chief Information Technology Officer, explained that Verizon initially approached the college to expand coverage to an area known to have limited cellular reception. “Verizon…
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Sharon Hill’s Soleo Health Introduces Evidence-Based, Clinical-Outcomes Program
Soleo Health, an innovative national provider of specialty infusion services that has a branch location in Sharon Hill, announced it is offering comprehensive data reporting through its proprietary clinical outcomes program, SoleMetrics. SoleMetrics is designed to provide customized outcome data for physicians, health systems, accountable care organizations, payers, and manufacturers. Developed through years of clinical experience…
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Folsom’s Schoolhouse Center Donates $1K to Vest-a-Cop
The Schoolhouse Center in Folsom recently raised $1,000 from its members, almost one dollar at a time, to donate to Vest-a-Cop, a program established to raise funds to purchase bulletproof vests so every police officer in the Delaware County will be protected. “Vest-a-Cop is a cause near and dear to our hearts,” Schoolhouse director Kim…
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