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Commissioners Open New Commercial Kitchen At Olivet United Methodist Church
Coatesville’s Olivet United Methodist Church has officially opened a commercial kitchen that will be used to offer free lunches and nutrition education programs to Coatesville residents, thanks to many local volunteers and funding from Chester County’s departments of Community Development and Health. Commissioners Kathi Cozzone and Michelle Kichline, together with staff, church members and volunteers,…
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Longwood Gardens, Area Libraries And Organizations, Plan ‘Community Read’
Longwood Gardens, along with numerous area libraries and community organizations, have just launched the second annual Community Read, taking place now through April. The event is designed to encourage the region to join together in reading the same books to spur discussions around specific ideas and topics. This year’s book is “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…
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Surviving Pottstown Church Finally Comes To A Close
Though it survived Pottstown’s waning economic fortunes in recent decades and devastating floods in 2006, a small Chester County church on a dead-end Main Street finally came to its end this week. On Tuesday, Pastor Susan Folks stood before her St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church congregation of about 30 and dozens more who came to…
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Nonprofit Wings for Success Expands To Kennett Square To Help Women Find Jobs
Southern Chester County women ready to move on from homelessness, abuse or addiction to a fresh start at a new job can now get dressed for success thanks to a nonprofit organization opening up a branch location in Kennett Square on Jan. 5. Wings for Success will launch its satellite site at 457 Birch Street for…
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Hulafrog Lists Fun Weekend Kids Activities
Hulafrog, a website spotlighting local things for kids to do, has some awesome weekend children’s activities put on by area businesses and museums. For example, this evening there’s the step by step instruction on creating a masterpiece on canvas at Hop Toad Studio in Chester Springs, an event for children of all ages. Or the…
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The Food Bank Could Be The Solution To Your Resolution
For those of you whose New Year’s resolution was to volunteer more, help out your community more, lend a hand to the less fortunate or somehow serve up a helping of, well, help, then the Chester County Food Bank has a recipe just for you. A featured plug in the Exton Dish pours out a quick description…
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Children’s Hospital Of Philadelphia Unveils Portrait Of Local Philanthropists
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia recently unveiled a portrait of Paoli residents Ruth M. and Tristram C. Colket, Jr., commissioned in honor of their more than 40 years of generous support of CHOP. The portrait by Bucks County artist Nelson Shanks will be displayed in the hospital’s Colket Translational Research Building. Tristram Colket, a Campbells…
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Congressman Costello Retains Gerlach Staff For D.C. Debut
The man elected to take U.S. Rep. Jim Gerlach’s place on Capitol Hill has also elected to have most of Gerlach’s staff take their same places around him as he ramps up for a transition of power that’s as seamless as possible. Former Chester County Commissioner Ryan Costello‘s staff selections were announced in a recent Lebanon…
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Chester County Has Some Of State’s Top-Selling Wine And Spirit Stores
Chester County was among five Pennsylvania counties tallying almost half of all dollar sales at Fine Wine and Good Spirits stores in the state, according to the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board’s just-released 2013-14 Retail Year in Review. Allegheny County had more than $271 million in wine and spirit sales, about 13.7 percent of statewide sales.…
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What’s Ahead For The Data Centers LLC?
Last summer the University of Delaware terminated its lease with West Chester firm The Data Centers LLC, which had planned to build a large data center supported by a 279-megawatt energy generation facility featuring combined heat and power that would allow it to operate “off the grid.” Although controversial in the community, with some critics…
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A. Duie Pyle’s Parkesburg Warehouse Wins Miracle-Gro Logistics Award
With a near-perfect 99.9 percent on-time accuracy rating and no peak service failures, the A. Duie Pyle warehouse and distribution facility in Parkesburg last week claimed the 2014 Service Provider of the Year Award from The Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. “We are extremely honored to receive this award for the fifth consecutive year,” Director of Warehousing and…
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PLCB: Establishments May Now Deliver Six-Packs Of Beer
What will be the first establishment in Chester County to deliver a six-pack? That’s right, the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board has issued an advisory opinion saying restaurants, grocery stores, pizza and sub shops may now deliver up to two six-packs of beer. Philly.com has reported on the new rule, which carries some restrictions. Customers, for…
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Community Helps Tredyffrin Public Library
Local volunteers and organizations are pitching in to help the Tredyffrin Public Library reorganize more than 70,000 books that were displaced when the library flooded following a plumbing malfunction the day after Thanksgiving. While no books were damaged, ruined carpets and furniture had to be removed and the library was closed for nearly a week,…
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YMCA Offers Gift Of Health Days Through Jan. 3
During the past year more than 16,000 people received financial assistance of more than $2.5 million to participate in programs at the YMCA of the Brandywine Valley. Those figures are from Denise Day, president and CEO. The local businesses who helped make the financial assistance possible as association sponsors were ServiceMark, Fulton Bank, CTDI, Precision,…
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TMACC Helps Veterans This Holiday Season
The Coatesville LINK bus was Santa’s sleigh on Dec. 22 when the Transportation Management Association of Chester County, local politicians and the Ascot Summerfield Homeowner’s Association climbed aboard to drop off hundreds of holiday gifts to the patients at the Coatesville Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Congressman-elect Ryan Costello, state Rep. Becky Corbin, and newly-appointed Chester…
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Longwood Fire Company Provides Super Fan With Signed Turnout Coat
Santa and members of the Longwood Fire Company made a special visit with the company’s number one fan, Gianna Winters. “Gianna is our super fan,” Chief A. J. McCarthy said. “She has a learning disability but she has become so interested in the firehouse that many have noticed an improvement in her ability to retain…
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Acme Markets, Local Firms Came To Aid Of Friends Association Clients
Employees at Acme Markets Malvern headquarters shared their holiday spirit this month with Friends Association, one of only three family shelters in Chester County. Acme employees purchased 81 gifts for children in the care of Friends Association. See some of the photos here. For over 190 years Friends Association has provided essential social services for…
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Devon Horse Show Committee Mulls Leadership Changes – Update
Update: 12.14.2014 according to a report in the Daily Local News, “The Devon Horse Show and Country Fair Inc. board held a surprise meeting Monday and voted to oust Sarah Coxe Lange, the president and CEO of the Devon Horse Show and Country Fair, and board Chairman Henry Lafayette Collins III.” The full story here…
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