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Nappen & Associates Welcomes its Newest Additions to its Team
Nappen & Associates, a leading industrial real estate developer and property manager located in Montgomeryville, is proud to introduce its newest team members. Tracy Flissar joins Nappen & Associates as Vice President of Leasing and brings extensive experience and insight in the industrial real estate market. Prior to joining Nappen & Associates, Tracy worked at…
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After Seven Decades, Conshohocken-based IKEA Discontinues Its Annual Catalog
After seven decades, IKEA, the Swedish home furnishings giant which has its U.S. headquarters in Conshohocken, is discontinuing its annual catalog, writes Tim Nelson for the Architectural Digest. The first edition of the catalog came out in 1951, with 285,000 copies circulating through southern Sweden. The catalog reached peak circulation in 2016 when more than…
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Solve Your Integration Challenges — the Qlik Way with Blendr.io
It’s hard to believe, but it has been just over one quarter since Blendr.io became part of the Qlik family. After building out our platform to bring orchestration and automation to a SaaS-driven world, the reception both internally and externally from the Qlik community has been just fantastic. In every conversation, I’m hearing and seeing…
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Rye BYOB Joins Media’s Restaurant Scene With a Different Dining Approach
Local artwork adds to the décor and the food at Media’s Rye BYOB is layered with texture, color and playfulness, writes Ed Williams for mainlinetoday.com. This recently-opened restaurant foregoes traditional first- second- and third- course descriptions, focusing instead on starters, pastas and proteins. “We prefer that our diners create their own personal pick-and-choose tasting experience,”…
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Washington Post: Delaware County Needs to Work on Its Social Capital, Research Shows
Counties that have a high level of something called social capital had less severe coronavirus outbreaks in 2020, reports The Washington Post. That conclusion was reached in research by Christos Makridis and Cary Wu published in the journal PLOS One. Delaware County did not register high in social capital, according to an index used by…
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Pennsylvania Reports Only 23 New COVID-19 Deaths Statewide for Monday
No COVID-19 county or municipal statistics, including the number of new cases and COVID-19 deaths, were available Monday from the Chester County Health Department because of the President’s Day holiday. State statistics were available from the Pennsylvania Department of Health as of noon, Feb. 15, but no new county statistics have been posted by the state since Friday,…
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Comcast pours $1M into Chester to Build Business Broadband Services
Comcast Business is investing $1 million to install 2.5 miles of broadband infrastructure along the city’s Avenue of the States for businesses there, writes Kathleen E. Carey for the Daily Times. “Focusing on the redevelopment of Chester was on the forefront of our minds,” said Stephanie Kosta, Comcast’s vice president of government affairs. “Chester has…
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Villanova Wildcat Jeremiah Robinson-Earl Is an ‘Old Soul’ Sticking to Basics
Jeremiah Robinson-Earl is an old soul who follows the advice of Kobe Bryant when he’s out on the court with the Villanova Wildcats, writes Joe Juliano for The Philadelphia Inquirer. “He talked about, everybody has their own box and how you should dance beautifully in your box,” Robinson-Earl said. Coach Jay Wright is the one…
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Local Doctor’s Invention Helps Cover Unpleasant Mask Odors
Even before the pandemic made masks a necessity, Dr. Mark Pizzini, a Fox Chase Cancer Center anesthesiologist and University of Pennsylvania professor, was working on a way to remove some of the unpleasant odors that can arise from using face covering, writes Lynne Adkins for KYW Newsradio. “There can be lots of challenging scents in…
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Dunwoody Village Team Member Completes LeadingAgePA Fellows in Leadership Program
Natalie Alsis, Human Resources Supervisor at Dunwoody Village in Newtown Square, has recently completed the 2020-21 Fellows in Leadership program provided by the LeadingAgePA Foundation. LeadingAgePA, a statewide association of not-for-profit providers of long-term care services across Pennsylvania, offers the Fellows in Leadership program to a select class of rising leaders who work for member…
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Second Marijuana Growing Facility and Dispensary Going Up in Chester
A second medical marijuana growing and processing facility is planned for April 2021 in Chester, writes Julia Mericle and Mike Larson for Philadelphia Business Journal. The Healing Center out of Pittsburgh has bought 50 percent equity interest in Agronomed Biologics, which means further expansion in Pennsylvania. Agronomed Biologics can open a new processing facility and…
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Pennsylvania Department of Health Reports Total COVID-19 Cases Statewide nearing 900,000
No COVID-19 county or municipal statistics, including the number of new cases and COVID-19 deaths, were available over the weekend from the Chester County Health Department or the Pennsylvania Department of Health. The last available county information available was Friday, Feb. 12, in which 36,318 total positive cases of COVID-19 were reported in Delaware County…
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New Zoom Features Help Organizations Create Productive, Healthy Post-pandemic Workplaces
Many workers are well-acquainted with the fact that Zoom has been an integral part of the work experience due to the conditions of the last year. However, as more people become vaccinated, some companies are looking towards physically reuniting their workforce in the coming months. The people behind Zoom anticipated this and have developed additional…
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Neumann Alums Served with National Guard at Jan. 20 Inauguration at the Capitol
Not all of the National Guard troops who served at the U.S. Capitol during President Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20 carried weapons. Two Neumann University alumni who were part of the deployment filled key support roles as a chaplain and a journalist. Dontae Phillips, a political science major who graduated in 2010, serves as…
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Villanova’s Ardrossan Estate Makes It on to the Big Screen in the New Film ‘A Call to Spy’
The Ardrossan estate in Villanova, made famous from “The Philadelphia Story” is now the backdrop for a new film from Haverford native Sarah Megan Thomas, writes, writes J.F. Pirro for mainlinetoday.com. In a review of “A Call to Spy”, The Guardian talked about “the considerable effort that has clearly gone into re-creating period interiors and…
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Philadelphia Airport CEO Lobbying Biden and Congress for Airport Funds
Philadelphia International Airport CEO Chellie Cameron has been elected to be a top advocate to Congress and the Biden Administration representing America’s airports as the travel industry continues its struggles from the pandemic, writes Catherine Duhn for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Cameron was elected to a two-year term as chairman of the Airports Council International North…
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There Are Plenty of Great Sledding Hills in Philadelphia Area, Rose Tree Park Tops the List
Sledding is one of the fun winter activities that can be enjoyed by both the young and old alike. Luckily, those looking for some of the best sledding spots that can provide hours of enjoyment do not have to go far from home, writes Nick Vadala for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Rose Tree Park in Media…
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Harcum Partners with Middle School in Philadelphia to Make College More Accessible
To help increase completion rates for first-generation college students and low-income students, Harcum College has partnered with St. James School to help its graduates earn college degrees. Officials from Harcum and the St. James School, a middle school in the Allegheny West neighborhood of Philadelphia, recently participated via Zoom in a joint signing of a…
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