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Chill Out Chocolate Therapy in Ridely Park Has Sweet Answer for What Ails You
A Ridley Park couple started out in the ice cream business, but over time they’ve also morphed into chocolatiers, writes Peg DeGrassa for Delco News Network. Tim and Karen Monahan opened Chill Out Chocolate Therapy at 19 E. Hinckley Ave., in the heart of the Ridley Park business district, in April. In addition to homemade…
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DELCO Careers – Boeing
With a location in Ridley Park, Boeing is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, and satellites. Boeing has recently secured new contracts that will bring more jobs to Ridley Park. Programmer Analyst/Developer This position designs and develops new integrations supporting business contracts; supports supply chain integration environments including application integration services; participates in requirements gathering workshops; and…
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Ridley Park Paramedic Is Halloween Fanatic, Will Lie In A Coffin For 30 Hours At NJ Six Flags
A Ridley Park man was chosen among 6,000 applicants to lie 30 hours in a fully covered wooden coffin, writes Max Bennett for patch.com. Halloween fanatic Michael Markawicz is one of six contestants in Six Flags Great Adventure’s 30-Hour Coffin Challenge. It all begins Sunday, Oct. 13, 2:30 p.m., and will finish at 8:30 p.m.,…
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State Raises Some Delco School District Real Estate Tax Index Rates for Next Year
Eight school districts will be allowed to raise real estate taxes at a higher index rate for the 2020-21 school year, writes Kevin Tustin for the Daily Times. The Pennsylvania Department of Education Act 1 index, used to determine the maximum tax increase percentage a district can levy before going to a ballot referendum, will…
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Ridley Park’s John Scagall Releases Music Video About Coping with the Loss of a Pet
Ridley Park native and county singer John Scagall has released a music video “Send My Fur Angel” to remember his dog Tobey, who passed away last year, three days before Scagall’s wedding, reports MyChesCo.com. The video captures the pain and yearning Scargall felt to see his family dog again. Tobey’s collar was at the wedding…
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DNB First House of the Week: Unique Colonial in Ridley Park
A one-of-a-kind home with unique features and five bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms is available for sale in Ridley Park. The home is set on a 0.44-acre lot with both a fenced-in backyard area and a large play area just outside the fence. Highlights inside include a living room with two separate sitting…
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Recovered Treasure: Workers in Folsom Return Bag of Money Accidentally Tossed Into Trash
Three Folsom Township Public Works employees retrieved about $700, credit cards, a driver’s license and medical cards mistakenly thrown away as trash, writes Barbara Ormsby for the Daily Times. The employees sifted through a truck full of trash last July 30 looking for the bag containing those items. After the frantic resident called the township…
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He graduated Ridley High, Son of a Delco Politician and Now He’s Working on the Trump Campaign
Delaware County is no stranger to politics, so it’s not surprising that some of our own would end up on the 2020 presidential campaign trail. Meet Tim Murtaugh, the second of our Delco residents who turned political operative, as reported by Julia Terruso for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Murtaugh, 50, is director of communications of “Trump…
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Langguth’s Gift Shop in Ridley to Close After 58 Years, Thousands Served
Langguth’s Gift Shop, a 58-year legacy on East Hinkley Avenue in Ridley Township, is closing Sept. 28, another victim to changing times, writes Peg DeGrassa for the Daily Times. Founded by Larry Langguth in 1961, the store flourished in the borough’s business district for six decades. The store had novelties, candy, cards, lotto tickets country-style…
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When a Tree Gives You Grief, Who You ‘Gonna Call? John Hosbach, Radnor’s Tree Detective
John Hosbach Jr. is a self-professed tree hugger who’s been known to testify in court about tree difficulties, writes Katie Park for The Philadelphia Inquirer. This part-time Radnor arborist and president of the Ridley Park urban forestry company Rockwell Associates, travels from Pennsylvania’s marshy lowlands to the dry terrain of Montana. His expertise carries legal…
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Woodstock: Delco Residents Offer a Local Spin on 50th Anniversary of Music Fair
When Janet Sanders, a Springfield High senior, announced she was going to Woodstock, her brother and late sister-in-law didn’t want her to go because they had seen photos of nude festival attendees at the Atlantic City raceway concert, writes Peg DeGrass for the Delaware County News Network. “I lied and went anyway, telling my brother…
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El Paso Soccer Club Gets Generous Donation and Support From Ridley United Soccer Club
When the El Paso shootings took place Aug. 3 at a Walmart store, the El Paso Fusion Soccer Club was fundraising outside for equipment, writes Kevin Tustin for Delaware County News Network. Twenty two people were killed in the shooting and many others injured, including two of the youth soccer team’s coaches, a coach’s wife…
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Delaware County Leadership: State Sen. Tim Kearney
State Sen. Tim Kearney, 58, represents the 26th District, which covers 18 Delaware County communities as well as Easttown and Willistown in Chester County. In 2018, he defeated Republican Tom McGarrigle in an upset to become state senator, the first Democrat to represent the 26th district since 1978. DELCO.Today recently spoke to Sen. Kearney about…
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Kinder Park Senior Housing in Ridley Enters Final Phase
A senior housing project in Ridley Township got a boost this week from a $1 million state grant, according to a release from State Sen. Tim Kearney’s (D-26) office. Kinder Park is the Delaware County Housing Authority’s flagship redevelopment project. A six-story, 125,000 square-foot building will offer affording housing for seniors and medical office space.…
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New Air Conditioned Boeing Factory Focuses on New and Refurbished Osprey Aircraft
With a bit of fanfare, Boeing workers and representatives, and the region’s U.S. House delegation opened a new $130 million factory at the Ridley Park helicopter complex Thursday, writes Joseph N. DiStefano for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The factory will enable Boeing to refurbish V-22 tilt-rotor Osprey assault support aircraft while building new ones as the…
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Eddystone Company Brings Touch of Delco to U.S. Military Uniforms Everywhere
The “touch of Delco” can be found in film classics “Titanic” and “Taps”, and in just about every military officer’s uniform worldwide, writes Peg DeGrassa for the Daily Times. Anthony D’Alessandro of Ridley Park is owner of Accent Uniforms, Inc. in Eddystone. His company made the double-breasted custom uniform that Bernard Hill wore as ship…
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Prendie Campus Project Getting Up and Down Votes From School Boards
Delaware County Community College officials are visiting the college’s 12 sponsoring school districts to convince them to support a $55 million capital improvement bond for a new campus at the former Prendergast High School, writes Kevin Tustin for the Daily Times. The support of two-thirds of the college’s sponsoring school districts is needed to create…
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Ridley High Graduate Reconnects With Vietnamese Family
Mark Chew, a Ridley High School graduate, and a successful restaurateur, continues to connect with his family in Vietnam, writes Steve Cahalan for the La Crosse Tribune. Chew operates nine restaurants in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland. Chew, 58, is an adopted Vietnamese native who came to the U.S. in 1972 at age 11, living…
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