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Putting Football Aside, Strath Haven Product Pursues Basketball on the Next Level
Strath Haven High School graduate John Harrar had to make a tough choice between continuing his football or basketball career on the collegiate level, writes Thomas Schlarp for the Daily Collegian. The 6-foot-9 native of Wallingford had been balancing the two sports. Harrar’s first love was basketball. He started playing football, though, to help out…
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Breakfast Now Served All Day in Ridley Park, as America’s 647th Cracker Barrel Opens
By Chris Cooper Ridley Park is now home to the 647th Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, which opened its doors this morning at 125 South Stewart Avenue. The 10,000-square-foot restaurant and retail store is the 24th in Pennsylvania, and brings nearly 200 new jobs to the area. Cracker Barrel serves homestyle meals prepared from scratch…
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Local Comedian Releases New Book, ‘The Five People You Meet in Wawa’
The region’s legendary love for all things Wawa has now been immortalized in a book written by Philadelphia comedian Nick Kupsey, writes Marielle Mondon for PhillyVoice. Kupsey has created a spoof of Mitch Albom’s The Five People You Meet in Heaven with his 40-page eBook entitled The Five People You Meet in Wawa. It highlights…
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Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Markers Have New Guardian
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission markers that have been damaged by careless drivers or worn down over time are being restored to their former glory by a new maintenance contractor, Craig Wise of Clearfield, writes Karen Galle for the Blog of the Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Office. Pennsylvania has 2,325 PHCM markers, including 63 in Chester…
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Upper Darby Native Tina Fey Turns Her Hit Movie into Broadway Musical
Fans of the hit movie Mean Girls will soon get the chance to enjoy it as a Broadway musical, thanks to the efforts of its original writer, Upper Darby native Tina Fey, writes Peter Marks for The Washington Post. Fey has joined forces with her husband Jeff Richmond, who has composed the music, and Nell…
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Cantor at Temple Sholom in Broomall Releases Jewish Rock Album
Jamie Marx, the cantor at Temple Sholom in Broomall, has released a six-song Jewish rock album titled In Pursuit, writes Brian Bingaman for The Phoenix Reporter & Item. “There isn’t much tradition involved with rock music for Judaism,” said Marx. “Over the last 40 years, folk and pop styles have become mainstream in Jewish worship.”…
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Chadds Ford Native, Former Senator Once Challenged Teddy Roosevelt Over Idaho Wilderness
Chadds Ford native Weldon B. Heyburn, a Quaker and former U.S. Senator born in 1852, once challenged President Teddy Roosevelt for control of the Idaho wilderness, writes Syd Albright for The Coeur d’Alene (Idaho) Press. Roosevelt was a proponent of preservation and wanted to protect as much of nation’s wilderness as possible. “We have become…
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Sun Shipbuilding Launched Its First Ship from Chester Yard a Century Ago
October 30 marked the centennial since Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock launched its first ship from the Chester yard, writes Colin Ainsworth for the Daily Times. The Chester Sun was the first ship of many to be produced at the yard. At the time, it accounted for 40 percent of U.S. tanker production in World War…
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Chadds Ford Lumberjill Carves Her Way into Male-Dominated Sport
Martha King of Chadds Ford put her saw to good use during the first Stihl Timbersports lumberjill competition last month in Coventry, Conn., writes Lori Riley for the Hartford Courant. King discovered the unusual sport when she went to Penn State. It was the perfect fit, especially since her father is an arborist and she…
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Villanova Basketball’s Jay Wright to Receive Prestigious Coaching Honor
Villanova men’s basketball coach Jay Wright will receive the John R. Wooden Award’s “Legends of Coaching” honor in 2018. The “Legends of Coaching” honor recognizes coaches who exemplify Coach Wooden’s high standard of coaching success and personal integrity. [uam_ad id=”52851″] Advertisement Next year will mark the second consecutive year that a coach with Delaware County…
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Decades Later, Newtown Square Native Reunited with His First Camaro
Decades later, Newtown Square native Steve Shauger has been reunited with the same 1969 Chevrolet Camaro Z-28 he owned in the 1970s, writes Scotty Lachenauer for Hot Rod Network. Shauger fell in love with Camaros when first saw one while walking to elementary school. Years later, he found one that was perfect. He drove the…
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Twitter Revitalizes Celebrity Status of Once-Renowned Eagles Fan from Lester
Once a regular on local sports television and talk radio, Eagles fan Larry Poff from Lester has seen his celebrity status revitalized, all thanks to Twitter, writes Daniel Craig for PhillyVoice. Poff learned of his renewed fame a few weeks ago when friends started sending him videos of his appearances that were now resurfacing. The…
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Pumpkin Tradition Started by Andrew Wyeth Delights Both Young and Old
Last weekend, Chadds Ford’s Great Pumpkin Carve again delighted both the young and old with an array of amazing characters on display, writes Patricia Talorico for the Wilmington News Journal. The open-air festival was held in a grove of the Chadds Ford Historical Society off Creek Road. The three-day celebration featured more than 60 local…
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Upper Darby’s Thomas Garrett Helped Thousands of Slaves Escape to Freedom
Thomas Garrett, a Quaker from Upper Darby, helped thousands of slaves escape to freedom as one of the leading stationmasters of the Underground Railroad, writes Tom Ryan for Coastal Point. Garrett discovered the depravities of slavery in his youth, when his parents’ black servants were kidnapped and forced into servitude. This prompted Garrett, who resettled…
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Villanova Prof Running Campaign to Help the Homeless Keep Their Pets
Villanova University professor Stephanie Sena wants to ensure that homeless people never have to choose between their pets and a warm shelter for the night, writes Michelle Neff for One Green Planet. While many people have tried to help the homeless in Philadelphia by offering free meals, haircuts, and job opportunities, very few shelters accept…
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Newtown Square Billionaire the State’s Wealthiest Person in Forbes 400
Coatesville resident Mary Alice Dorrance Malone, heiress to the Campbell Soup fortune, has been supplanted by Newtown Square’s Victoria Mars, heiress to her family’s candy and pet food company, as the wealthiest Pennsylvanian in the annual Forbes 400. The 60-year-old Mars and her three sisters are heiresses to Mars, Inc., the company best known for…
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Cousins, Musicians from Darby Start Fashion Brand
In addition to being accomplished musicians, Darby cousins Solomon Zeon and Peace Kumeh have started their own fashion brand, The Royal Family, to complement their careers, writes Kevin Tustin for the Daily Times. “We always loved and marketed more than just music with our brand. We just don’t want be known as musicians, we want…
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Chester Native Sets the Bar High with Her Latest Album
Chester native Denise White, known professionally as Avery Sunshine, has set the bar high with her recently released album Twenty Sixty Four, writes David Goodson for the New York Amsterdam News. White, a graduate of Sacred Heart in Bryn Mawr, found solace and inspiration in the sounds of African-American music from a young age. To…
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