• VISTA Careers – Family Service of Chester County

    VISTA Careers – Family Service of Chester County

    Family Service of Chester County, a respected nonprofit human services agency serving Chester County, is seeking a Medical Case Manager to join its HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care Program based in Coatesville. This is a full-time position (37.5 hours per week), with a salary range of $45,000–$50,000 annually. The benefits package is generous and includes: Position…

  • 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…

  • VISTA Careers – Dunwoody Village

    VISTA Careers – Dunwoody Village

    Dunwoody Village in Newtown Square is hosting a campus-wide job fair on Wednesday, Oct. 8, from 10 AM to 6 PM. D Dunwoody Village’s excellent reputation as a leading continuing care retirement community is due in large part to the dedicated, talented, and caring team members who provide exemplary care and service to its residents.…

  • 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.…

  • Folcroft-Based Herb Fuzion Handcrafted Honey Is Pretty Sweet

    Folcroft-Based Herb Fuzion Handcrafted Honey Is Pretty Sweet

    PA Preferred Herb Fuzion Handcrafted Honey, based out of Folcroft, offers a line of artisanal honeys and goods using locally-sourced products, writes Leigh Green for PA Eats. From savory to floral to sweet, the online products offer the health benefits of local goldenrod and wildflower honeys and herbal infusions. Owner Lanise Middleton started her business…

  • Widener University, Philadelphia Union Partner on ‘Work-in-Sports’ Experience for High School Students

    Widener University, Philadelphia Union Partner on ‘Work-in-Sports’ Experience for High School Students

    Widener University and the Philadelphia Union are partnering again for a series of unique “Work in Sports” field trips that expose area high school students to the career opportunities available within professional sports. Four high schools will visit Subaru Park and the adjacent newly opened WSFS Bank Sportsplex, which houses practice, training, and meeting space,…

  • Abby’s Law, with E-Scooter Restrictions, Introduced in the Pennsylvania Senate

    Abby’s Law, with E-Scooter Restrictions, Introduced in the Pennsylvania Senate

    Delaware County State Sen. Tim Kearney introduced legislation Tuesday in the Pennsylvania Senate that would prohibit children under the age of 16 from riding e-scooters. SB1008, known as Abby’s Law, was introduced in honor of Abigail Gillon, a 12-year-old Aston girl who died in June from an accident involving an electric scooter, writes Robert Moran…

  • At Penn State Brandywine, AI Used to Look at Drumming Style

    At Penn State Brandywine, AI Used to Look at Drumming Style

    What makes drumming better—exact timing or imprecise emotion? That’s a question being asked and answered at Penn State Brandywine University in Media using AI, writes Christina Billie for Penn State Brandywine. Michael Yatauro, an associate professor of mathematics at Penn State Brandywine, and Arnav Pandey, a second-year mathematics major who has transitioned to University Park…

  • Delaware County Community Turns Out in Prospect Park to Help Boy with Leukemia

    Delaware County Community Turns Out in Prospect Park to Help Boy with Leukemia

    The community turned out at Richman’s Ice Cream Company in Prospect Park on Tuesday at a fundraiser for 8-year-old Lincoln Hanson, who is battling leukemia, writes Shawnette Wilson for Fox 29. Twenty percent of sales from the fundraiser, which took place over three hours, will go to the family to cover medical expenses. Lincoln was…

  • Widener University Ceremony Marks $10 Million Gift and a Name Change

    Widener University Ceremony Marks $10 Million Gift and a Name Change

    Members of the Widener University community gathered Oct. 1 to celebrate the generosity of Jack ’78 and Nancy Dwyer, whose $10 million gift aims to shape the future of nursing education and patient care for generations.  Widener celebrated the milestone gift, the largest in the university’s more than 200-year history, at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on…

  • Lost Newtown Square Dog  Rescued by a Thermal Drone Pilot

    Lost Newtown Square Dog Rescued by a Thermal Drone Pilot

    A Newtown Square woman was reunited with her lost dog after it went missing for four days, thanks to a thermal drone and a pilot who wouldn’t quit, writes Madeleine Wright for CBS News Philadelphia. Angela Ruberto Rodden from Newtown Square said her rescue dog, Samson, was most likely startled by something that caused him…

  • Freedom Village: Here Are 8 Ways to Know It’s Time for Memory Care

    Freedom Village: Here Are 8 Ways to Know It’s Time for Memory Care

    As dementia progresses, it creates a variety of physical, psychological, and behavioral changes that can at first seem subtle but tend to increase in severity. Here are 8 warning signs that it might be time for memory care: 1. Forgetting how to get to familiar places: Silver Alerts are all too common nowadays. When a senior…

  • Crozer-Chester and Springfield Hospital Properties to be Auctioned

    Crozer-Chester and Springfield Hospital Properties to be Auctioned

    Bankruptcy auctions are coming up for Crozer-Chester Medical Center and Springfield Hospital, writes Harold Brubaker for The Philadelphia Inquirer. This follows the recent sale of Taylor Hospital in Ridley Park to local private investors and the sale of Delaware County Memorial Hospital to Upper Darby School District. Bids on the properties are due Oct. 7,…

  • Dine at Sovana Bistro and The Pear and Help the Arc of Chester County

    Dine at Sovana Bistro and The Pear and Help the Arc of Chester County

    The Arc of Chester County is asking everyone to Dine and Donate at Sovana Bistro and The Pear every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, Oct. 1 through Oct. 30. When you order lunch, dinner, or a drink at the bar, whether dining in or taking out at Sovana Bistro or The Pear, 15 percent of your…

  • 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…

  • Developers Are Descending on Rare Open Space in Upper Darby

    Developers Are Descending on Rare Open Space in Upper Darby

    Open space in the area of Township Line and State roads in Upper Darby has become a lightning rod for developers. The latest proposal is a car wash near the intersection on three undeveloped acres known as the Mozino property, writes Pete Bannan for the Daily Times.   It would sit next to and behind the…

  • Friends Association Invites You to a Charity Ball – A Holiday in the Tropics

    Friends Association Invites You to a Charity Ball – A Holiday in the Tropics

    The Friends Association Charity Ball, “A Holiday in the Tropics”, brings an island twist to the holiday season on Saturday, Dec. 6, from 6:30 to 10:30 PM, at the West Chester Golf & Country Club. Funds raised from this annual event provide support to the Friends Association’s programs that are focused on ending family homelessness…

  • Odor Alert. Delaware County’s Smelling Bad Again

    Odor Alert. Delaware County’s Smelling Bad Again

    The authorities have been alerted. The county’s 911 center received multiple reports about a gas odor that has returned to Delaware County. The county’s  Emergency Services Department is investigating, according to FOX29. Over at the Springton Reservoir on 252, a Reddit user described a diarrhea smell. County residents from Clifton Heights to Marcus Hook are…