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West Chester Beauty Brand Founder Chaz Dean Donates Big To ‘Love is Louder’
West Chester resident Chaz Dean, founder of the WEN brand of hair-care products, has donated $500,000 to Love is Louder, a project of the Jed Foundation. The New York-based group focuses on preventing suicide among college students and promoting emotional well-being. Dean’s donation was inspired by years of being relentlessly bullied as a child, detailed …
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United Way Seeks Sponsors For Their Color 5K Thorndale Event
United Way of Chester County is casting their nets hoping to land two new sponsors for their very popular Live United In Color 5K run and walk. Last May’s Live United In Color 5K race, held in Thorndale Township along Route 30 in Western Chester County, sold out at 900 participants and raised over $25,000,…
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Rebecca Lukens Award Lauds West Chester Lawyer For Loyal Streak
A loyal streak reminiscent of Rebecca Lukens, the famous pioneering Coatesville industrialist, has warranted West Chester attorney Mary Ann Rossi the Lukens’ legacy award. “Over the last several decades, Mary Ann Rossi has been a tremendously influential woman in Chester County, walking in the footsteps of Rebecca Lukens as an independent, forceful, patient leader, never asking for…
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And according to a link from MSN Money posted to Twitter by DNB First earlier this week, Chester County is Pennsylvania’s wealthiest county as well. Using the five-year estimated median annual household incomes from 2009 through 2013 from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey and looking at counties with populations of 10,000 or great,…
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Malvern House Project Wins Local Plumber James Brown LLC A National Green Living Award
A modern retrofit for a relocated historical building in Malvern has hooked up a West Bradford plumbing and heating company with a nationwide Bosch Green Living Award. Showcased at the AHR Expo in Chicago, James Brown Plumbing, Heating & Air Conditioning LLC’s installation of a cutting-edge combination of radiant floor heating, geothermal heat and high-efficiency boilers…
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Kevin Johnson Of Traffic Planning and Design To Chair State Transportation Transition Team
Kevin Johnson, president of Traffic Planning and Design, Inc., has been tapped to chair newly elected Gov. Tom Wolf’s Transportation Transition Team and bring him up to speed on current transportation issues, KeystoneEdge reports. Pennsylvania has historically been cautious in its approach to new ideas, according to Johnson, founder of the transportation design firm, with…
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Commercial Kitchen Is Now Open At West Chester’s Artisan Exchange
The Artisan Exchange Commercial Kitchen at 208 Carter Drive, West Chester, is now open for business. The kitchen is within the Artisan Exchange, which hosts many small local businesses and a farmer’s market each Saturday. With approval from the state Department of Agriculture and the Chester County Health Department, the commercial kitchen and food preparation…
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Seniors Helping Seniors Will Host Senior Downsizing Discussion
Seniors Helping Seniors® of Chester County will sponsor a senior care events and educational discussion focused on helping seniors downsize in Downingtown next week. The presentation and discussion titled “Downsizing 101”, will take place on February 12th beginning at 6:00 PM at Ashbridge Manor directly across Route 30 from Wegmans in Downingtown. A snow date…
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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 for $10,…
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Op-Ed: Stop Electing Pa. Treasurers
By Guy Ciarrocchi Pennsylvania’s recently resigned state treasurer is scheduled to plead guilty in federal court for trying to extort donations from potential contributors to his gubernatorial campaign last year. My purpose here isn’t to criticize or condemn Rob McCord, nor to excuse the crimes he admits committing. My concern is what to do about…
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More Time To Nominate For Small Business Week Awards
There’s still time to share that amazing small business success story, now that the nomination period for the Pennsylvania Small Business Week Awards has been extended to Feb. 27. The more-than-50-year tradition of the Small Business Administration will once again champion small business owners who stand for excellence in their communities by naming an Entrepreneurial Success,…
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Chester County Receives $1.5 Million In Federal Grants To End Homelessness
Chester County has received $1.5 million in Continuum of Care grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to support its Decade to Doorways program – an initiative that aims to prevent and end homelessness by providing critically needed emergency housing and support services to individuals and families. Commissioner Terence Farrell said the…
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Source: Chester County Economic Development Council ________ Top photo credit: EightK via photopin cc
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Valley Forge National Park Plans To Lease Some Historic Buildings
Several historic buildings at Valley Forge National Park are being made available for commercial use, the Daily Local News is reporting. One of these is the 1816 Maurice Stephens House, the site’s former information center, which may be transformed in to a cafe. The Philander Chase Knox House and Kennedy Supplee Mansion on the site…
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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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County Commissioners Approve Energy Saving Contract With Constellation
Beginning next January, Chester County’s government facilities will save $6.7 million in energy costs over a 15-year period under a contract with Constellation approved by commissioners Jan. 29. Under the $5.9 million contract, Constellation will begin energy conservation and facility improvements at Chester County’s administration building at 313 W. Market St., the Justice Center, Historic…
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Did You Know?
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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Wegmans Employees, Customers “Check Out Hunger” With Major Food Bank Donation
Employees from the Downingtown and Malvern Wegmans stores plan to donate $92,040 to the Chester County Food Bank on Feb. 10, the Exton Town Dish reports. The funds were raised through Wegmans’ Check Out Hunger campaign, in which customers and employees contribute to the local food bank at checkout. “We are so grateful for the…
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