• Local Teen the First-Ever High-Schooler in Pennsylvania to Achieve This Rare Feat

    Local Teen the First-Ever High-Schooler in Pennsylvania to Achieve This Rare Feat

    The first Pennsylvania high school student to ever run a sub-four-minute mile did so at last weekend’s Philadelphia Catholic League championships. Gustav Elvin lapped up the good news in The Philadelphia Inquirer. Archbishop Wood senior Gary Martin had flirted with the record in the past. But at the regional competition, held at Delaware County’s Cardinal…

  • Family Feud Withered Waterloo Gardens, a Local Landmark for 70 Years

    Family Feud Withered Waterloo Gardens, a Local Landmark for 70 Years

    With locations in Devon, Exton, and elsewhere, Waterloo Gardens was a local landmark for more than seven decades, until family friction interfered. J.F. Pirro detailed its long freefall into insolvency in 2014 for Main Line Today. Financial troubles started to mount for the LeBoutillier family, the business’s owners, in 2008. Its new Warminster location, an…

  • Local Body Shop Polishes Its Image with Top Ranking on Classic Car Restoration List

    Local Body Shop Polishes Its Image with Top Ranking on Classic Car Restoration List

    HotCars.com celebrates the Buick Gran Sport, listing one restored by a Bucks County body shop as its premier example of a muscle car makeover.  The 1960s mark the era of the muscle car, those souped-up, super-cool, roaring, glistening machines that were equally as slick on city streets or drag strips.  A 1969 Buick Gran Sport nabbed the top spot on HotCars.com’s list of revived beauties. Its resurrection work was done by Nick Serwo, of Ivyland Collision and Restoration in…