• Widener Announces Students Named to Homecoming Court, Royals

    Widener Announces Students Named to Homecoming Court, Royals

    Widener University in Chester announced the students named to its homecoming court for 2025. Members of the court are nominated by their peers for their leadership, spirit, integrity, achievement, and contributions to the Widener community. Homecoming was celebrated over the week of Oct. 6, and culminated with the football game at Leslie C. Quick Jr.…

  • Patient Surge from Crozer Closing Boosted Main Line Health Revenue

    Patient Surge from Crozer Closing Boosted Main Line Health Revenue

    An increase in patients from Crozer Health’s closing is partly responsible for Main Line Health reversing a $61 million loss last year with a $4 million gain in operating income for 2025, writes John George for Philadelphia Business Journal. Revenue increased 10 percent to $2.62 billion in fiscal 2025 ending June 30. Net patient revenue…

  • How Wawa Lures Customers from Wendy’s, Burger King and Starbucks

    How Wawa Lures Customers from Wendy’s, Burger King and Starbucks

    Wawa is stealing customers from Burger King, Wendy’s and Starbucks, especially during breakfast, because of its focus on high-quality, built-to-order food, writes Natalie Rice for CNBC. The Delaware County-based chain is leveraging its customer loyalty, almost a cult-like following that has inspired merchandise, tattoos, songs, and marriage proposals, to expand into the Midwest and South.…

  • General Recreation Helps Design Pocket Park for York City Police

    General Recreation Helps Design Pocket Park for York City Police

    York City Police dedicated a new pocket park at their King Street headquarters on Sept. 3 that was designed and installed with the help of staff from General Recreation, Inc. in Newtown Square. The park sits on a patch of grass to the left of the department headquarters, writes Paul Kuehnel for the York Daily…

  • An IKEA Store Is Coming to the Promenade at Granite Run in Media

    An IKEA Store Is Coming to the Promenade at Granite Run in Media

    A new IKEA Media store is moving into the Promenade at Granite Run, 1111 W. Baltimore Pike, writes Max Bennett for Patch. IKEA Media will arrive in spring 2026 with a new format that will make it more accessible to customers. . “No more trekking through that notorious I-476 ‘Blue Route’ traffic—now you can enjoy…

  • VISTA Careers – Dunwoody Village

    VISTA Careers – Dunwoody Village

    Dunwoody Village is a five-star, not-for-profit continuing care retirement community in Newtown Square, located in a picturesque wooded setting, combining comfort with award-winning, high-quality healthcare and rehabilitation. Dunwoody job positions are for career people who want a “decidedly different career,” people who share a commitment to excellence, and who want to join the team.  Qualified applicants are encouraged to…

  • For Chester High’s Shemaj Henry, Football Has Turned His Life Around

    For Chester High’s Shemaj Henry, Football Has Turned His Life Around

    Shemaj Henry, Chester High School Clippers’  6-foot-8 offensive tackle, was once embarrassed about his size and weight. The high school senior still remembers at age 14, weighing 430 pounds, when he couldn’t fit into a roller coaster carriage. It led him to change his life through football. He lost 100 pounds over 18 months, and…

  • VISTA Careers – CCRES

    VISTA Careers – CCRES

    CCRES is hiring professional staff to work in schools, in the home, and in the community as they help children and adults challenged by autism, mental illness, intellectual/developmental disabilities, and physical disabilities. CCRES joined up with the Chester County Intermediate Unit in 1999 to meet a need for behavioral health services for children in Chester…

  • Penn State Brandywine Garden Takes First in Delaware County Contest

    Penn State Brandywine Garden Takes First in Delaware County Contest

    The Penn State Brandywine Campus Garden, led by Garden Manager Emily Dozor, continues to be a growing success as it recently won first place in the Advanced Community Garden category at the Penn State Extension Master Gardeners of Delaware County’s 34th annual garden contest. Established in 2014, Brandywine’s garden began as a small honors project…

  • Swarthmore Borough Halts Earned Income Tax for Now After Help From Swarthmore College

    Swarthmore Borough Halts Earned Income Tax for Now After Help From Swarthmore College

    Swarthmore Borough will not implement a proposed earned income tax that would have filled a funding gap caused by the closure of Crozer-Chester Medical Center and the loss of Crozer’s ambulance service. Swarthmore College has agreed to contribute $638,000 for rising emergency service costs, writes Denali Sagner for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Preliminary estimates show the…

  • VISTA Careers: Freedom Village at Brandywine

    VISTA Careers: Freedom Village at Brandywine

    Find your Freedom Village career at Freedom Village at Brandywine, a Life Plan Community in West Brandywine, that has served seniors for more than 25 years. Freedom Village provides active senior living with resort-inspired services, amenities, social activities, chef-prepared cuisine, and on site care that includes personal care, skilled nursing, memory care, and rehabilitation services.…

  • Martinique Deux Comes to Media with Drinks, Music, Darts and Comedy

    Martinique Deux Comes to Media with Drinks, Music, Darts and Comedy

    Martinique Deux is opening soon in Media, promising live music and comedy shows, writes Lisa Dukart for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The bar and entertainment venue debuted with a soft opening yesterday and today and will have a grand opening on Oct. 23 in Media’s office-dominant Phoenix building at 115 W. State Street. Business partners James…

  • Widener University Named a 2025 Best School for Men in Nursing

    Widener University Named a 2025 Best School for Men in Nursing

    Widener University’s Jack & Nancy Dwyer School of Nursing was named a Best School for Men in Nursing by the American Association for Men in Nursing, or AAMN. This is the first time Widener’s nursing program has earned the one-year designation. Widener was one of only 16 schools recognized.  The prestigious award recognizes the Dwyer…

  • Closed Door Plans for a Charter School Preceded Valley Forge Military Academy Closing

    Closed Door Plans for a Charter School Preceded Valley Forge Military Academy Closing

    Even as Valley Forge Military Academy struggled toward closure, another plan was quietly in the works at the Wayne campus to open a First Responders charter school there, writes Max Marin and Ryan W. Briggs for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The Valley Forge Public Service Academy Charter School proposes to open next fall. This past September,…

  • Arc of Chester County’s Chat n Chew Hosts Free Virtual Training

    Arc of Chester County’s Chat n Chew Hosts Free Virtual Training

    The Arc of Chester County has free virtual Chat n Chew trainings covering a variety of topics, which empower people to learn about education and systems advocacy. Click this link, then check the workshops for which you would like to register. Indicate the name of the individuals planning to attend. The following sessions are being…

  • Chichester’s Bill Roth Brings Sixers Mascot Hip Hop Out of Retirement

    Chichester’s Bill Roth Brings Sixers Mascot Hip Hop Out of Retirement

    Bill Roth of Chichester is coming out of retirement to once again perform as the Philadelphia 76ers rabbit mascot,  Hip Hop, reports Madeleine Wright for CBS News Philadelphia. The mascot will return Nov. 8 as part of the Sixers’ 25th anniversary celebration of their 2001 NBA Finals run. “There’s always been that little piece that’s…

  • Family Service of Chester County Gears Up for Annual Holiday Gift Drive

    Family Service of Chester County Gears Up for Annual Holiday Gift Drive

    Family Service of Chester County is preparing to bring holiday cheer to local families through its annual Holiday Gift Drive, now underway. The drive provides essential items and gifts to children and families facing financial hardship, ensuring that no one in the community goes without during the holiday season. Last year, the community response was…

  • Chadds Ford Plan to Auction Painter’s Folly Meets Some Resistance

    Chadds Ford Plan to Auction Painter’s Folly Meets Some Resistance

    Chadds Ford Township officials plan to auction off Painter’s Folly, once the studio and retreat for artist Andrew Wyeth, writes Kyle Bagenstose for Hidden City. The 170-year-old home at 1421 Baltimore Pike borders Delaware and Chester Counties at the site of the Battle of Brandywine. The three-story 16-room Italianate home was built in 1857 by…