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Sign Up for This February Frenzy of SCORE Webinars
SCORE Chester and Delaware Counties has a wide range of February SCORE webinars to help small business owners achieve success with their businesses. Get Your Local Business on Google Search and Maps Learn how your business can appear on Google search and Google maps by creating a Google Business Profile in this Tuesday, Feb. 14…
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Philly Sports Fans Are Crazy Because ‘We Don’t Care’
Philadelphia sports fans are looked down on by most nationwide for their often crazy shenanigans, but learned to embrace this reputation, writes Sara Nović for Wildsam. In fact, the city’s ability to take the punches when it comes both to Philadelphia itself and its sports teams can be summed up in the city’s unofficial theme…
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State Small Business Credit Initiative Provides Funding to Entrepreneurs
The State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI), which was originally introduced in 2010 after the Great Recession of 2008-2009, has been reinstated. The program offers funding to small business owners and entrepreneurs and is administrated by the U.S. Department of the Treasury. As part of the program, $10 billion is given to states, territories, the…
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IT Edge: How Analytics Reporting Can Serve Your Business
In today’s day and age, the internet can be a business’s best friend or its worst enemy. This all depends on where your business stands with technology. For the consumer, on the other hand, the internet is a tool that opens all sorts of doors to which services they can employ, products they can buy,…
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Reading Area Community College, WCU Agree to Dual Admission
As part of a first-time partnership, Reading Area Community College (RACC) and West Chester University (WCU) came together to sign a dual admission degree completion agreement that will enhance greater access to a baccalaureate degree for RACC students. The new agreement between the two institutions enables qualified, enrolled RACC students to earn an associate degree…
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C&N Wealth Management Names Philip Prough Chief Investment Strategist
C&N Wealth Management has named Philip Prough as its Chief Investment Strategist. With more than 30 years of industry experience, Prough will lead the development and expansion of the C&N Wealth Management team’s customized investment management offering to new and existing markets. C&N Wealth Management Names Philip Prough Chief Investment Strategist “Wealth management has been…
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2 Swarthmore Eagles Fans Cherish a Crazy Super Bowl Experience
A Swarthmore couple are looking forward to the Super Bowl this year, though it won’t be the same as Super Bowl 2018, writes Alex Rose for the Daily Times. That’s because Kelsey Hansen and Dylan Terenick won tickets to that game from radio station Q102. “We are die-hard Eagles fans and I would sit in…
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Naming Rights to ‘The Linc’ Paying Off Big for Lincoln Financial
Lincoln Financial Group’s purchase of the naming rights to the Philadelphia Eagles’ new stadium in 2003 has really been beneficial for the Radnor-based life insurance/retirement investment firm. It didn’t seem so certain back in the day when executives didn’t like the fans and the media referring to the stadium as “The Linc”, writes Jeff Blumenthal…
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These Divas in Havertown Dance Their Way to Fitness
A group of senior citizens are part of a special fitness class “Dancing Divas” at the Haverford Township Community Recreational Environmental Center that’s teaching them some new dance steps, reports Dave Edwards for 6abc. The class is geared toward older women who like to move, said Elizabeth Luff, an adult fitness instructor at the Center.…
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Weekend Wanderer: Finding the Perfect Rug
I have been stymied by the rug at my front door, which has gone to Marion’s bar in Nepal. Just to talk about Marion for a minute, because obviously I’ve been thinking about her a lot – that bar is a discrepancy in the movie. Aren’t we meant to infer Marion’s father died abruptly, marooning…
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West Norriton Resident Has No Problem Admitting That His Moonlighting Job Is a Drag
By day, West Norriton resident Derek Lightcap is a counselor at the Valley Forge Memorial Garden cemetery in King of Prussia. He balances the weight of that career with a polar-opposite moonlighting job: Lightcap is a drag performer, sassily entertaining crowds with the persona he’s created, Fanci Dismount. “I’ve been an entertainer my whole life,”…
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WCU Welcomes Executive Director of Philadelphia’s Lest We Forget Museum of Slavery
On Monday, Feb. 13, at 3:30 PM, Gwen Ragsdale will present a free lecture in person and virtually in West Chester University’s Philips Autograph Library, located at the corner of High Street and University Avenue. Ragsdale is the founder and executive director of Philadelphia’s Lest We Forget Museum of Slavery, which is the only slavery museum in Philadelphia…
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Opinion: Football, Freedom & Our Collective Future: The Uniting Force of Super Bowl LVII
Many of us watched anxiously when Damar Hamlin, safety for the Buffalo Bills, collapsed on the field after what looked like a routine tackle. We witnessed response teams run to his aid in under 10 seconds. In wake of this tragedy, sports fans from New York to California shared their support for Hamlin’s recovery and…
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Ex-NY Jets Lineman Joe Klecko Has Done It All, but It Started in Chester
For Joe Klecko it all starts in the west end of Chester, writes Mike Jensen for The Philadelphia Inquirer. “Chester made you tough. Chester was no walk in the park. A working-class town,” he said in a recent interview. Klecko is a former defensive lineman for the New York Jets, part of the famous New…
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Former Chiefs From Delco Weigh in on Super Bowl
Three Eagles fans from Delco happen to be former players for the Kansas City Chiefs so they’re coming into Sunday’s Super Bowl with mixed emotions, writes Terry Toohey for the Daily Times. Bill Maas, Joe Valerio and Matt Blundin grew up rooting for the Eagles. But they’re also grateful for the time they spent with…
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These Eagles Fans Went to Arizona for a Second Chance
They were three friends in Philadelphia and hard-core Eagles fans who needed to get sober, so they headed out to Arizona to see Jimmy Wallin. Wallin, a Cardinal O’Hara High School graduate, had gone out to Arizona 30 years earlier to go to a recovery house there, writes Jason Nark for The Philadelphia Inquirer. He…
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Child Advocate Nonprofit Protesting Glen Mills School Reopening
A child-advocacy nonprofit is opposed to the state allowing the former Glen Mills School to reopen, writes Robert Moran for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The Glen Mills school was closed and its license revoked following a 2019 child abuse and cover-up scandal. “Glen Mills was a dangerous facility that closed for a reason, and now has…
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Malvern Bank House of the Week: Split-Level Home in Thornton
A charming split-level home set on 1.32 gorgeous acres with three bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms is available for sale in Thornton. The former owner of this 1960 residence was an avid gardener and surrounded the home with around 50 different species of plants and trees. The property is also home to a…
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