• SCORE: Start 2024 Strong with These Small Business Workshops

    SCORE: Start 2024 Strong with These Small Business Workshops

    SCORE Chester and Delaware Counties has January 2024 SCORE webinars and live presentations to give you the tools to help your small business. Federal Government Market Online Live Event (Fee) Learn what’s required to be a federal supplier, how to register as a federal small business, where to find opportunities, and how to market your product/service…

  • It Was the Hobo Life for This Delaware County Man

    It Was the Hobo Life for This Delaware County Man

    A Delaware County man lived a hobo lifestyle of train hopping in his younger years, but he never considered himself a hobo, writes J.F. Pirro for Main Line Today. “I guess I could be called a post-Beat Generation freight train rider. But hobo? No,” said the freelance home appliance repairman. “I didn’t go from town…

  • David Hoefner Remembered as an Energy Exec, Sculptor and Loving Caregiver

    David Hoefner Remembered as an Energy Exec, Sculptor and Loving Caregiver

    David Hoefner wore many hats. He was a retired executive for Ogden, Covanta, PECO, and Exelon energy companies. The former Springfield and Glen Mills resident was also a longtime caregiver to his first wife, MaryLou, until her death in 2011. Mr. Hoefner grew up in Upper Darby, graduated from Springfield High School, and was also…

  • DELCO Careers: CCRES

    DELCO Careers: CCRES

    CCRES jobs are available to those looking to improve the lives of children and adults challenged by behavioral health issues. CCRES staff work in schools, homes, and the community. CCRES, Downingtown, provides over 1,500 professional behavioral health career staff to meet the needs of children and adults challenged by autism, behavioral health issues, mental illness, intellectual/developmental disabilities,…

  • Snake in the Grass in Delaware County? Maybe, but Not Poisonous

    Snake in the Grass in Delaware County? Maybe, but Not Poisonous

    Delaware County isn’t the first place you’d think of when contemplating snakes in our midst. It’s true you won’t find snakes too often in urban areas because there isn’t much here for them, and the destruction of natural habitats has led to a sharp decrease in the diversity of snake species, reports Pet News 2Day.…

  • Crozer’s Surgical Residency Program, Set to Close, Gets Reprieve

    Crozer’s Surgical Residency Program, Set to Close, Gets Reprieve

    A Crozer surgical residency program at Crozer Chester Medical Center was set to lose its accreditation, but the program has been granted an extension until more details can be provided to Crozer, writes Kenny Cooper for WHYY. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education regulates training programs for new physicians. It named “special circumstances” as…

  • SCORE: Start 2024 Strong With These Small Business Workshops

    SCORE: Start 2024 Strong With These Small Business Workshops

    SCORE Chester and Delaware Counties has January 2024 SCORE webinars and live presentations to give you the tools to help your small business. Small Business Essentials-Evening Edition (Fee) These two live event webinars were developed to prepare you to make the decisions and plans needed to successfully launch and promote your business.  Both webinars are taught…

  • Delaware County Hails New Era for Its Juvenile Justice System

    Delaware County Hails New Era for Its Juvenile Justice System

    Delaware County is overhauling its approach to juvenile crime and rehabilitation, starting with demolishing the Delaware County Juvenile Detention Center this summer, writes Kathleen E. Carey for the Daily Times. A new facility will reflect a more holistic and proactive approach to the juvenile justice system, with the promise of transforming it into an industry…

  • Foundation: Nonprofit Registration for Delco Gives Day Now Open

    Foundation: Nonprofit Registration for Delco Gives Day Now Open

    The Foundation for Delaware County announces the launch of Delco Gives, a community giving initiative designed to unite residents, businesses, and organizations in a collective effort to support Delaware County’s nonprofit sector. Delco Gives Day, happening May 8-9, 2024, promises to be a county-wide celebration of generosity, unity, and shared purpose. It’s a unique opportunity…

  • DELCO Careers: CCRES

    DELCO Careers: CCRES

    CCRES positions are available to those looking to improve the lives of children and adults challenged by behavioral health issues. CCRES staff work in schools, homes, and the community. CCRES, Downingtown, provides over 1,500 professional behavioral health career staff to meet the needs of children and adults challenged by autism, behavioral health issues, mental illness, intellectual/developmental disabilities,…

  • Most Delaware County Colleges Saw Endowment Growth in 2023

    Most Delaware County Colleges Saw Endowment Growth in 2023

    Endowment growth in 2023 from colleges and universities in the Greater Philadelphia Area rebounded for the most part after losing ground the year before, writes Ryan Mulligan for Philadelphia Business Journal. In Delaware County, endowment growth in 2023 was seen at Villanova University and Haverford College. Swarthmore College was down slightly by .03 percent. College…

  • SCORE: Start 2024 Strong With These Small Business Workshops

    SCORE: Start 2024 Strong With These Small Business Workshops

    SCORE Chester and Delaware Counties has January webinars and live presentations to give you the tools to help your small business. Small Business Essential Series–Evening Edition (Fee) This 3-part series was developed to prepare you to make the decisions and plans needed to successfully launch and promote your business.  This live event webinar series begins Jan.…

  • See If Delaware County Still Ranks Among Wealthiest in Pennsylvania

    See If Delaware County Still Ranks Among Wealthiest in Pennsylvania

    Delaware County’s wealth is in a good place when compared to other counties around Pennsylvania. It joins three of its neighboring counties in being among the top five wealthiest in Pennsylvania, writes Kate Melynn Wood for AZ Animals. The county comes in fourth, below Chester at No. 1, Montgomery County at No. 2, and Bucks…

  • Wawa’s 2023 Was More Than Just About Pushing Pizza

    Wawa’s 2023 Was More Than Just About Pushing Pizza

    Wawa 2024 and Beyond continues an aggressive campaign to open stores in other states even as it tweaks stores closer to home, writes Emma Dooling for Philadelphia Business Journal. The Delaware County-founded convenience store chain closed its Headhouse Square store in downtown Philadelphia in July 2023 and repurposed other closed stores in the city, leaving…

  • DELCO Careers: CCRES

    DELCO Careers: CCRES

    CCRES positions are available to those looking to improve the lives of children and adults challenged by behavioral health issues. CCRES staff work in schools, homes, and the community. CCRES, Downingtown, provides over 1,500 professional behavioral health career staff to meet the needs of children and adults challenged by autism, behavioral health issues, mental illness, intellectual/developmental disabilities,…

  • SCORE: Start 2024 Strong With These Small Business Workshops

    SCORE: Start 2024 Strong With These Small Business Workshops

    SCORE Chester and Delaware Counties has January webinars and live presentations to give you the tools to help your small business. Small Business Essential Series–Evening Edition (Fee) This 3-part series was developed to prepare you to make the decisions and plans needed to successfully launch and promote your business.  This live event webinar series begins Jan.…

  • Crozer Health’s New EMS Delivery Approach Won’t Affect Service

    Crozer Health’s New EMS Delivery Approach Won’t Affect Service

    Crozer Health is changing how it delivers emergency medical services, but there are no plans to reduce any advanced life-saving or basic life-saving services in Delaware County in 2024, writes Pete Bannan for the Daily Times. That’s the word from Crozer Health President Tony Esposito in a statement last Friday. “Our recruitment efforts over the…

  • DELCO Careers: CCRES

    DELCO Careers: CCRES

    CCRES positions are available to those looking to improve the lives of children and adults challenged by behavioral health issues. CCRES staff work in schools, homes, and the community. CCRES, Downingtown, provides over 1,500 professional behavioral health career staff to meet the needs of children and adults challenged by autism, behavioral health issues, mental illness, intellectual/developmental disabilities,…