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Success of VISTA.Today Prompts Launch of Delaware and Montgomery County NewsHubs
You, VISTA Today’s reader, have spoken. Well, technically, your actions have spoken. Prompted by the success of VISTA.Today over the last two years – which we owe to you and the time you spend reading and sharing our stories – and the need for a centralized NewsHub in neighboring Delaware and Montgomery Counties, we are…
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GWCC Holding Coffee Connection inside Restored DNB Bank
DNB First will mark the re-opening of its branch in Downtown West Chester with Coffee Connection, a Greater West Chester Chamber of Commerce networking event, where participants will be able to enjoy good coffee and light breakfast fare while mingling with professionals and colleagues from the area. DNB First has managed to rebuild the branch…
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Healthiest Employer Fox Rothschild Hits the Trail for 50K Relay
One of America’s healthiest employers recently hit the trails in an ambitious attempt to take on the inaugural Schuylkill River 50K Relay. Six attorneys tackled the pro-trail development trek for the Exton office of Fox Rothschild, which ranked No. 30 nationwide in the 2015 Healthiest 100 Workplaces in America rankings by Healthiest Employers, as well…
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Local Boy Scouts Are Halfway to New Exton Adventureland
The Boy Scouts of Chester County recently raised three fingers and promised to do their best to do their duty to God and the Exton countryside by transforming 28 donated acres into a Scouting adventureland. On Friday, renowned former Philadelphia Eagles Coach Dick Vermeil gave the halftime pep talk to a standing-room-only crowd of civic…
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William J. Boylan Leading Lending at Malvern Federal Savings Bank
Malvern Federal Savings Bank announced on Monday, that banking veteran William J. Boylan has been appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Lending Officer. In his new role, Boylan will be in charge of all aspects of the bank’s lending business in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Prior to his new appointment, Boylan was the Senior Vice…
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250-Year-Old Covered Wagon Inn Safe from Demolition
By Carla J Zambelli, Although the Covered Wagon Inn has stood in Tredyffrin Township for over 250 years, its future was jeopardized at the beginning of the year when developers submitted plans to raze and replace the inn with a CVS Pharmacy. The developer, Summit Realty Advisors, could not have anticipated what followed. As news broke…
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Kennett’s New Beer Garden, The Creamery, Prepping to Pop Up
A grown-up’s community playground is getting close to popping up in a corner of Kennett Square desperate for revival. Many months in the making, The Creamery will soon bring evening music and entertainment to a 3-acre former cannery and creamery with its unique new seasonal European-style pop-up beer garden. More playground than bar, the coming…
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Ability Prosthetics Helps Five Year Old Exton Girl Take on New Challenges
A five-year-old girl from Exton is about to ride her bike for the first time with her two older brothers, thanks to 3D printing and the wonders it has done in the field of prosthetics, writes Bridget Butler Millsaps for 3Dprinting.com. Emmy Hoffman of Exton, whose mother wrote the book ‘Emmy’s Amazing Hand’, was born…
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Registration Wide Open for GWCC’s Quest for the Chamber Golf Outing
Spring is here! And what better way to celebrate than with a round of golf for charity. On Monday, May 16th, the Greater West Chester Chamber of Commerce is holding its annual Quest for the Chamber Golf Outing at the Radley Run Country Club in West Chester to raise funds for the GWCC’s Education Foundation…
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After Eight Months without a Contract, ArcelorMittal and Steelworkers Union Reach Tentative Agreement
A thousand steelworkers from Coatesville and Conshohocken will soon have a new, tentative contract presented to them for a vote as the United Steelworkers has reached agreement on a new contract with ArcelorMittal USA. If the contract is approved by the almost 14,000 members of the union, it will run until September 1, 2018, writes…
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Malvern Restaurateur Switches Styles with Bryn Mawr Eatery
Restaurateur Sean Weinberg is leaving the homey and polished style of his Restaurant Alba in Malvern as he moves to Bryn Mawr to open a new eatery he describes as grungy and edgy, writes Michael Klein for Philly.com. In just a few days, Weinberg’s new establishment, Biga Pizza + Beer, will open its doors to…
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New Bolton Center Has Groundbreaking New Horse Scanner
Groundbreaking new medical scanning technology is giving Chester County a never-before-seen look inside the bodies of local horses — without cramming them into a diagnostic tube. New Bolton Center of the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine has just been outfitted with the revolutionary new Equimagine robotic imaging system developed by Four Dimensional Digital…
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Local Student’s CultureCloud App Links World Travelers to New Friends
One of the highlights of a recent West Chester Henderson High School grad’s adventure to Italy was wrestling a native Judo champion there, and ever since, Charlie Grab has grappled with the idea for a mobile app that would connect world travelers with local people who share their interests. “You make a new friend, and…
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Chester County Briefs: Hollenbach Construction, Penn State Great Valley, Oxford Area Chamber of Commerce, and La Comunidad Hispana
Hollenbach Construction Receives 2016 Business/Enterprise of the Year Award Hollenbach Construction, Inc., the Boyertown based design and construction management firm, has been awarded the 2016 Business/Enterprise of the Year Award by the Tri County Area Chamber. The award was presented to the company’s representatives by Rich Newell, President and CEO of Pottstown Memorial Medical Center…
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House of the Week: A Multi-unit Gem in the Heart of Kennett Square
It is rare that a great investment property located just walking distance from the restaurants, shops, YMCA, and other advantages of the town center shows up for sale in Kennett Square Borough. This stunning three-floor building at 307 S Broad Street in Kennett Square does exactly that. It features one unit per floor and an…
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Chester County Book Company to Close in July
Monday brought disappointing news for book lovers across the county, as the owner of Chester County Book Co. announced that the bookstore in West Goshen Shopping Center will be closing in July, writes Brian McCullough for the Daily Local News. Kathy Simoneaux Fortney said she had decided that, after moving to a smaller space in…
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Activist Pressure Prompts Peco to Announce Summer Solar Collaborative
Hearing calls from green activists to focus more on renewable sources of energy, Peco Energy Co. has announced plans to create a “stakeholder collaborative” to help advance local solar energy, writes Andrew Maykuth for Philly.com. The utility has been the target of protests by the Earth Quaker Action Team which is trying to get the…
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Nave Newell Kids Take up the Fight Against Cancer with Alex’s Lemonade Stand and Bake Sale
Laura Kepner wears many hats as the executive assistant to Greg Newell, the founder of Nave Newell, a multidiscipline consulting firm in Wayne that provides civil engineering, surveying, and landscape architectural services throughout the Greater Philadelphia Region. The most important hat she wears is perhaps the 35-person company’s “director of fun,” the title that makes…
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