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Haunted Hayrides a Cash Crop for Arasapha Farm in Glen Mills
The highest-yielding crop on a particular family farm in Delaware County is the haunted hayride. These days, planting spooks and scares along a dark and seemingly dangerous adventure through Halloween-time cornfields and weeping woods is bringing a much-faster harvest than traditional grain and vegetable crops. And it’s a lot more fun. “Halloween is 75 percent…
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Glen Mills a Perfect Location for Headquarters of Thriving Malvern School
With a thriving headquarters in Glen Mills, The Malvern School for Early Childhood Education is teaching franchise preschools how childhood education ought to be done. The Malvern School co-founder Kristen Waterfield broke the mold of traditional franchise preschools to create one that puts children at the center of the business model, according to a sponsored…
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Rosemont Sees Enrollment Spike Following Significant Tuition Cuts
Rosemont College has slashed tuition prices for the 2016-17 school year by an astonishing 43 percent, bringing a wave of new enrollments to the small Catholic college on the Main Line, writes Susan Snyder for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Last September, Rosemont announced it was cutting tuition costs and taking an additional $1,900 off room-and board-fees…
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Wall Street Journal Names Local College One of Nation’s Most Engaging
Swarthmore College is ranked sixth on The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings in terms of how engaged students feel with both the professors and their education, writes Douglas Belkin for The Journal. The engagement category determines how actively students are tackling various concepts and trying to apply them in the real world. To…
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Broomall’s Grayson School One of Six Winners of Philadelphia Area’s Stellar StartUps Competition
Although there was no prize money or investors waiting for them in the winners’ circle, nearly 100 of the region’s early-stage companies entered this summer’s inaugural Stellar StartUps competition presented by the Philadelphia Media Network, writes Diane Mastrull for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Last week’s awards event at the new Pennovation Center in West Philadelphia was…
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Delco Council Promotes Kindness, Acceptance During Bullying Prevention Month
Delaware County Council has declared October as Bullying Prevention Month in Delaware County, calling to action teachers, parents, students, and everyone in the community to promote kindness, acceptance, and inclusion. Council invited youth who face challenges involving bullying, mental health, or substance abuse to join the youth empowerment group MY LIFE. “Every day, children and…
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Wawa, 7-Eleven Go to Battle in Virginia to Woo Millennials
The competition between Wawa and 7-Eleven is heating up with both chains adding new locations in Virginia as they battle to capture the millennial foodservice market, according to a staff report from Convenience Store Decisions. As the buying power of millennials rises, both companies are working to expand their reach to gain more of their…
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Newtown Square-Based Sunoco Logistics Buys Key Oil Assets in West Texas
After testing the waters with a joint venture in Midland, Texas, Newtown Square’s Sunoco Logistics Partners is going all in on the prospects for rich, shale-oil deposits there. Sunoco Logistics has struck a deal to buy out Vitol Group from its SunVit Pipeline joint venture and spend more than $760 million working capital on Vitol’s…
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Marcus Hook at Center of Natural-Gas Pipeline Push
Landowners across Pennsylvania are holding up critical clean energy projects — and tremendous potential economic development — and Marcus Hook is caught in the middle of it all. Delaware County’s natural-gas processing and shipping facilities are the primary destination for several proposed pipeline projects, including the well-known Mariner East 2 buildout of pipeline from Ohio…
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Swiss Farms in Swarthmore Celebrates Grand Re-Opening with Promotions, Cookout
Swiss Farms, the Broomall-based drive-thru market, will reopen its Swarthmore location tomorrow, and celebrate with two days of drive-thru lane deals, as well as an outdoor cookout party on Sunday. Families, neighbors, and Swarthmore College students are all welcome to join the fun, taste the best of Swiss Farms, and enjoy special offers and freebies,…
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Crozer-Keystone Regional Cancer Center at Broomall Sets Standard for Patient Care
With evidence-based therapies and the most cutting-edge equipment on the market, the Crozer-Keystone Regional Cancer Center at Broomall is setting a new standard for the care of cancer patients. “The new standard in cancer care is patient-focused,” said Deborah Markiewicz, M.D. “In our new center, the different specialists in cancer care – surgical oncologists, radiation…
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United Way Honors Constituents at Annual Delco Community Awards
The United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey recently honored several corporate partners, volunteers, and donors at its annual Delaware County Community Awards Celebration at the Springfield Country Club. “As we get ready to move forward and embark on a new chapter of our work together here in Delaware County, it is nice…
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Local Architects Help German Couple Create Piece of Home in Newtown Square
A German couple who wanted to create a piece of their homeland in Newtown Square have built a contemporary house true to the aesthetics of their roots in Europe, writes Tara Behan for Main Line Today. “They gave us the latitude to create a house that was German in design and spirit, but could also…
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Haverford Township Library Architectural Firm Joins Bernardon’s Center City Office
Renowned Kennett Square architectural firm Bernardon has designed even more passionate experience into its strategy for the future. Bernardon recently welcomed Lee A. Casaccio and his second-generation firm Casaccio Architects of Havertown to the new Bernardon office in Center City. “Lee and his team share the passion for design and dedication to great client service…
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Purchase of Crozer-Keystone Finalized … Finally
For-profit hospital management company Prospect Medical Holdings has finalized its purchase of six healthcare facilities in Pennsylvania and New Jersey including Delaware County’s Crozer-Keystone Health System, writes Kym Soper for the Manchester (Conn.) Journal Inquirer. The previously non-profit Crozer-Keystone is now part of an 18-hospital system that boasts 3,000 licensed beds and more than 140…
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Investment Furthers Gas-Related Boom in Construction Along Delaware River
The Linde Group, a German industrial-gases maker, is planning to invest $100 million in its bottled-industrial-gas plant on the Delaware River, but the investment will not add any new permanent jobs to the area, writes Joseph DiStefano for the Philadelphia Inquirer. The development, which will further the local gas-related boom in construction, will add up…
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Famous Broomall Native, Co-Creator of Friends Inks Deals with HBO, Amazon
Broomall native Marta Kauffman, who created the hit show Friends with her longtime friend David Crane, another writer and producer from the Philadelphia suburbs, is bringing two new series to television screens worldwide. Kauffman, an executive at Okay Goodnight!, a production company in Los Angeles, graduated from Marple Newtown High School in 1974. She is…
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PennDOT, SEPTA Partner to Reduce Congestion on Schuylkill Expressway
PennDOT and SEPTA are joining forces for what many people in the northwest suburbs believe is long overdue: a $125 million project to reduce traffic on the Schuylkill Expressway, writes Claire Sasko for Philadelphia Magazine. The two transportation agencies will address multiple means of travel – the expressway, SEPTA’s Manayunk/Norristown Regional Rail Line, and the…
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