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Creative Ideas, State Cash, Even Prayer Being Poured Into Coatesville Train Station Proposal
When State Senator Andy Dinniman spoke to a gathering of Chester County residents and civic leaders last week about state plans to upgrade the county’s five Amtrak stations he had good news for residents of Coatesville and western Chester County Amtrak riders. Saying that since receiving the new Senatorial district last year, he had met…
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Behind only Lancaster County. Courtesy of the Chester County Economic Development Council
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Dinniman, Harrison Make Case For Increasing Cheyney, Lincoln Enrollment
Pointing to the impact cuts in education funding has on economically struggling school districts and Chester County’s two historically Black universities, State Senator Andy Dinniman over the weekend called on Pennsylvania law makers to allow high school juniors and seniors to earn college credits while still in high school. In an Op-Ed piece in Harrisburg’s…
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Hulafrog Lists Fun Weekend Kids Activities
By Alana Moran, Publisher, Hulafrog Hulafrog, a local website spotlighting local things for kids to do, has lots of great events featured happening all weekend long. For example, if you are craving an evening out sans kids, this evening BounceU in Exton has a Parents Night Out event, which is a drop off event that…
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Victory Brewing Company Celebrates 19th Anniversary With A Commemorative Beer
By Shannon Maria Jones In February, Victory Brewing Company will celebrate the 19th year since opening its doors in their Downingtown brewery. To commemorate the significant event, Victory has created a new beer, appropriately named, “Anniversary 19”. Victory’s vision for Anniversary 19 is for it to celebrate the fans of Victory beer: from the beer…
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Chester County Summer Jobs – YMCA of Greater Brandywine
Know a student looking for a fun and rewarding summer job? The YMCA of Greater Brandywine will be hosting job fair from January 4th through the 8th for open Spring and Summer positions. Camp counselors are being sought for a variety of positions, from preschool and environmental programs to art and music groups as well…
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Credit Card Data Safe Says ACME Markets Parent
AB Acquisition LLC, which operates ACME Markets and several other grocery store chains across the United States, added an update to their announcement Thursday that customer’s credit and debit card information might have been stolen. In a press release Friday afternoon, less than 24 hours after first announcing the breach, company officials said it had,…
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Acme Markets’ Parent Company Discloses Credit Card Data Breach
AB Acquisition LLC, the Boise, Idaho company which operates Malvern-based Acme Markets and several other regional grocery store chains across the United States employing some 115,000 people, 18,000 in the Delaware Valley, announced Thursday it had recently learned of an unlawful intrusion to obtain credit and debit card payment information in some of its stores.…
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Phillips Mushroom Farms On The History Channel.
Since 50% of the nation’s mushroom crop is grown in Chester County and mushroom output accounts for 8% of Pennsylvania’s total agricultural receipts, knowing more about the business of growing of the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus not only makes sense but is kind of interesting as well. This video shot at Phillips…
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Victory Brewing, Growing Roots Partners Team Up, Offer Farmer Market Discounts
By Shannon Maria Jones In February, Downingtown based Victory Brewing Company was awarded the 2014 Sustainable Agriculture Business Leadership Award by the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture. As part of the award, Victory was given a $500 honorarium, which the brewery chose to pass on to Growing Roots Partners, a local non-profit that organizes and…
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Significant Craft Beer Growth Likely To Continue
By Shannon Maria Jones Independent craft brewer’s sales, including those of Downingtown-based Victory Brewing Co., continue to see growth according to the 2014 mid-year report of the Brewers Association. From January through the end of June this year, approximately 10.6 million barrels of beer were sold by craft brewers, up 18 percent since 2013. Breweries…
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Paoli’s DuckDuckGo Is A Refuge From Google’s Prying Eyes
Do you ever feel like your Internet searches are following you around, that Google itself is stalking you? You’re not alone. Columnist Rob Witzel has joined the growing multitude of people who are not only questioning that reverberating echo of your searches but actually cutting it off, thanks to the soaring popularity of Paoli-born anti-tracking…
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New U.S. Energy Regulator Bows To Pressure, But What About Powhatan Energy Fund?
The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid extracted concessions from new energy regulator Norman Bay on “the federal takeover of New York’s electric grid,” but stated the verdict is still out on whether Bay will reverse his “record of prosecutorial abuse” and “railroading of West Chester-based Powhatan Energy Fund managers Kevin…
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New Restaurant Promises To Spice Up Exton Food Scene
The West Chester-based Dave Magrogan Group has come to rescue Exton from rumors that’s its cuisine scene is sorely lacking. Its Red Star Craft House anticipates heating up the wood-fired ovens and opening up the craft beer taps in October to offer “artisan-inspired dishes from around the world” in an Exton Square Mall atmosphere that…
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John Bogle’s Investment Wisdom: “It’s The Fees, Stupid”
Forbes annual investment guide published on June 30th gathered the investment wisdom of twenty of the finest market minds – dead or alive, according to the magazine, distilling each person’s wisdom into specific recommendations about which stocks, bonds, funds and securities investors today should buy and when they should buy them. Forbes’ group of 20…
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Flash Chesco Stock Alert
Don’t look now but shares of Fibrocell (FCSC: NYSE), the Exton-based company focused on developing treatments for rare and serious skin and connective tissue damage and diseases, are up 41-percent in the last 30 days. Previous coverage of Fibrocell on Chesco Business Today here and here.
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Editorial: U.S. Export-Import Bank Makes A Real Difference
From West Chester to Malvern to Exton to Phoenixville and so many of the communities across southeastern Pennsylvania, the U.S. Export-Import Bank makes a real difference for the local small businesses; companies that are the real engines of job growth across the Delaware Valley. Whether it’s Schramm’s in West Chester, Turkey Hill in Conestoga, or…
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Teva Threatened By A Dose Of Its Own Medicine
The lucrative advantage of an area pharmaceutical company is being threatened by the very market forces it built its reputation on. Teva Pharmaceuticals, which runs its U.S. operations from Frazer and Chester County neighbor North Wales, may soon get a dose of its own medicine. The world’s biggest generic drug manufacturer has recently enjoyed the…
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