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Delaware County Community College Offers Drinking Water Certification Program; Time Left to Register for Spring Classes
Delaware County Community College is offering a drinking water operator certification program, with classes beginning on Jan. 24 at the Marple Campus. Classes will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6-9 PM. Certified by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), the program prepares entry-level operators for certification and employment. The minimum education level…
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Aston Elementary School Gets Live Version of ‘The Elf on the Shelf’
One Delaware County school got a surprise last Friday morning, as a live version of the children’s Christmas toy “The Elf on the Shelf” greeted them from the school’s roof, writes Daniel Craig for PhillyVoice. The Elf on the Shelf is a little elf doll made famous by the highly successful book. The book explains…
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Delaware County Council Presents Gifts to 100 Veterans Living at Fair Acres
Santa Claus, with assistance from Delaware County Council, paid a visit to the veterans and residents living at Fair Acres, Delaware County’s skilled care facility, during a holiday party last week. As part of its annual Holiday Cheer for the Troops and Veterans campaign, council distributed gift bags to the 100 veterans of all service…
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Pennsylvania’s Highest-in-Nation Gas Tax About to Increase … Again
More money from filling gas tanks is about to spill out onto the state’s roads and bridges as the third and final gas tax increase since 2013 goes into effect on Jan. 1. Authorized by Act 89 three years ago, Pennsylvania’s highest-in-the-nation gas tax will go up eight cents per gallon, or 16 percent, according…
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Register Now for Delaware County Community College’s Free Career Development Program
Are you unemployed or underemployed? Would you like help finding a job? Are you seeking basic computer skills? Register now for Delaware County Community College’s FREE New Choices career development and job re-entry program. New Choices is being offered from Tuesday, Jan. 17 through Thursday, Feb. 23 on the college’s Marple Campus, located at 901…
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Delco Middle-Schoolers’ Search for Missing STEM Balloon Reaches Happy Conclusion
Maintaining hope has paid off for three Swarthmore girls after they spent more than six months searching for a data pack that was attached to the STEM balloon they launched in June as part of a personal project, writes Allan Vought for The Baltimore Sun. The data pack was launched on a high-altitude balloon by…
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To Delight of Disgruntled Employees Everywhere, Turnpike Worker Retires with Flair
Near the end of his 35 years working at the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, Michael Stuban became well acquainted with the unwritten rules surrounding hiring and job advancement, and on his last day before retirement, he wrote them for all to see. “When they asked for an honest exit interview, I gave them one,” Stuban said…
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Villanova Filmmakers Capture Joys, Struggles of Special Olympians in Stirring Documentary
The next Roger Moore or Ken Burns could be filming an award-winning documentary right now at Villanova University. Since 2008, students in the Social Justice Documentary Film program have been using film to change our communities, highlighting topics such as illiteracy, poverty, gun violence, and animal abuse. Last Friday, the student filmmakers premiered a powerful…
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Swarthmore College Sees Drop in Endowments
According to a new analysis from American City Business Journals, Swarthmore College is one of several wealthy academic institutions nationwide that have seen their endowments drop in value recently, write Craig Douglas and Michelle Caffrey for the Philadelphia Business Journal. The private liberal arts college saw its endowment returns drop by five percent in fiscal…
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Upper Darby Dreamer Fighting for Secure Future in Post-Election America
Maria Sotomayor, an Upper Darby Dreamer who was protected from deportation as a child through President Obama’s executive order, is trying to find ways to secure her own and her fellow Dreamers’ futures in the uncertainty of post-election America, writes Mike Newall for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Like many other Dreamers – who are nicknamed as…
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Hannum’s Harley Davidson of Media to Bring Holiday Cheer to Kids, Adults at Elwyn
Hannum’s Harley Davidson of Media will partner with the Harley Owners Group today to bring delight to the many children and adults of Elwyn, a premier educational and behavioral health organization based in Delaware County. The HOG visited Elwyn in September, and everyone in attendance was thrilled to see the riders on their impressive motorcycles.…
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New Rankings Reveal How Delaware County’s Private High Schools Fare Relative to Others in State
Based on rigorous analysis of key statistics and millions of reviews from students and parents, Niche.com has unveiled its 2017 rankings of the Top 100 Private High Schools in Pennsylvania. The Episcopal Academy in Newtown Square checked in at No. 2, trailing only Philadelphia’s Germantown Friends, while The Haverford School (5) and The Agnes Irwin…
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For Women, Stress from Holiday Office Party as Real as It Gets
Torn between celebrating a year of productivity and building a case for a better 2017, more women are feeling the stress of their pivotal holiday office party. A new QVC survey of 1,500 women in America has found that despite the desire to relax and enjoy a job well done, 66 percent of respondents also…
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Much-Hyped Urban Renaissance Fails to Dethrone Suburbs
The idea that millennials are shifting from suburbs and back into cities has been challenged in a new report by the Urban Land Institute’s Terwilliger Center for Housing, writes Eleanor Klibanoff for Keystone Crossroads. The report, entitled “Housing in the Evolving American Suburb,” looked at the years 2000-2015 in the 50 largest metro regions nationwide,…
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Harrah’s Steps Up, Agrees to Casino Tax Deal as Chester Avoids Financial Disaster
Harrah’s Philadelphia Casino & Racetrack is not rolling the dice on the future of Chester; casino leaders have struck a deal with Delaware County Council and lawmakers to avert a financial disaster that could have crippled the city’s budget. Harrah’s will continue to pay the casino host tax for 2017, even though it was ruled…
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Neumann University Offers Businesses Free Research, Marketing Advice on Expansion
As a service to the community, Neumann University business students are offering to work with area executives and small business owners during the spring 2017 semester to develop plans to expand local businesses internationally. From January to May, students will work closely with their professors, who themselves have extensive, hands-on international management experience, to assess…
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Newlywed from Glen Mills Thankful for New Life After Addiction
Wallowing in the pain of divorce, she turned to heroin — and embraced a horrible addiction that took more than treatment and rehab to break free from. But this Thanksgiving, Nicole (Kapulsky) Braclalenti of Glen Mills was grateful for new highs in life that have come heroin-free. “Six years clean in two months,” she wrote…
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Assistant Super from Unionville-Chadds Ford to Lead Radnor School District
Kenneth Batchelor, the assistant superintendent for the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District, has been hired for the top job in Radnor Township, writes Kathy Boccella for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Unionville-Chadds Ford is among the top-performing districts in the state and was the top-ranked high school in the Pennsylvania Department of Education’s School Performance Profile. Batchelor has…
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