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If you believe the above map from Flowingdata.com, the 315,000 Chester County residents who commute to and from work every day prefer navigating the county’s highways and crooked byways all by themselves. According to stats cited on the map above, 81 percent of county residents drive to work alone as opposed to carpooling (6%) or…
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Chester County Chamber Enlists Fifteen New Members
The Chester County Chamber of Business and Industry reports the following companies became chamber members last month: About Face Laser of Malvern Advantage Engineers of West Chester AOI Communications of Exton ChesPenn Health Services of Coatesville Custom Woodworking of Honey Brook Delaware Valley Industrial Resource Center of Philadelphia DiCindio Law of West Chester Littler Law…
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Hulafrog Lists Fun Weekend Kids Activities
By Alana Moran, Publisher of Hulafrog West Chester Hulafrog West Chester, PA a local website spotlighting local things for kids to do, features lots of great events happening all weekend long. On Friday evening check out Pins, Pop & Pizza at The Palace Bowling Center in Downingtown. The event runs from 3:30 – 5:30 p.m. and…
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Top 1 percenters in twenty-one states including neighboring New Jersey, New York and Maryland, took home more pay than did the top 1 percent of Pennsylvanians. Just for the record, according to a report issued by the Economic Policy Institute, in 2012, the same year in which the numbers used on the above map chart…
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TMACC’s Buses Reskinned For Better Visibility
Southern and Western Chester County residents will soon see a bright green bus traveling through their neighborhoods. The new green “CHESCOBUS” vehicles are to be unveiled Friday morning as the old white and blue Transportation Management Association of Chester County’s (TMACC) buses (pictured above) are retired. The newly “wrapped” buses will be used on TMACC’s two public…
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Source: Chester County Economic Development Council
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Department Of Community Development Will Count Homeless Tonight
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced the FY 2014 Continuum of Care (CoC) grant awards for Chester County. These funds support Decade to Doorways, Chester County’s Community Partnership to prevent and end homelessness by providing critically needed emergency housing and support D2D-Final-Logoservices to individuals and families experiencing homelessness. This evening and into…
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Union County an hour north of Harrisburg earned the #1 ranking while neighboring Montgomery County was ranked #5 in the annual survey published by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Foundation and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In the same survey Lancaster County came in at a respectable #9, Berks County at #16 and Delaware…
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Powhatan Energy Fund Finds New Evidence, Seeks More Time
The Federal Energy Regulatory Committee (FERC) long-simmering dispute with West Chester-based Powhatan Energy Fund LLC over what FERC alleges were illegal energy trades, took an unexpected turn last week when a recording surfaced that could absolve Powhatan’s trader of wrongdoing. The August 2010 recording of phone conversation between a FERC contractor monitoring trading compliance and a…
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County Seeks Hazard Mitigation Plan Feedback As Winter Storm Recedes
According to the Transportation Management Association of Chester County weekly email, the Chester County Mitigation Committee is looking for community feedback on the draft version of their long awaited Hazard Mitigation Plan. Chester County has recently completed the draft version of the county-wide hazard mitigation plan. The mitigation plan aims to reduce the impacts from…
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Source: Chester County Economic Development Council _____ Top photo credit: cpennywcupa via photopin cc
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More on Baldwin Book Barn here. Source: Keystone Edge
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Dinniman Hosting Telephone Town Hall Next Week
State Senator Andy Dinniman is turning to fiber optics and touch tone phones to keep constituents in the know about key state and local issues affecting Chester County. In addition to the regular e-mail updates the Senator sends and the daily Facebook and Twitter posts about issues important to Chester County, the two-term Senator announced…
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Hulafrog Lists Fun Weekend Kids Activities
By Alana Moran, Publisher of Hulafrog West Chester Hulafrog West Chester, PA a local website spotlighting local things for kids to do, has lots of great events featured happening all weekend long. Friday evening check out the Winter Fox – Winter Canvas Painting For Kid’s at Hop Toad Studio in Chester Springs where kids will…
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Source: Chester County Economic Development Council _____ Top photo credit: kylewagaman via photopin cc
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Chesco Planning Commissioner Director Calls Dinniman “An absolutely Incredible Leader”
Over the past two days, VISTA Today has reported on a presentation made by State Senator Andy Dinniman made about PennDOT’s plans to upgrade and refurbish Chester County’s five Amtrak stops. In the presentation made to 25 Chester County civic leaders and residents gathered at the West Goshen VFW on a cold January morning, Dinniman…
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The USA Today article naming Longwood Gardens the best public garden in the United States is here. Source: Chester County Economic Development Council ______ Top photo credit: buhny via photopin cc
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