• Community in Space: New Levittown Business Launched to Help Other Firms Reach the Stars

    Community in Space: New Levittown Business Launched to Help Other Firms Reach the Stars

    A new Levittown business venture launched with the start of the new year. Community in Space will increase investor accessibility to the space industry while also providing space-related companies with sustainable trajectories toward growth. The company has been formed to provide space and space-related companies with a financially sustainable approach to manifesting technology, as well…

  • Coatesville High School Senior Takes a Comic-Book Approach to a Serious Subject

    Coatesville High School Senior Takes a Comic-Book Approach to a Serious Subject

    Coatesville High School senior Ariel Abbott knew firsthand about the trials and uncertainty of teenage years. Having navigated them herself, she set out to help her peers, using an offbeat but effective medium: a comic book. Richard Gaw paged through the details for the Chester County Press. She created the comic book, born of her…

  • Boyfriend Used Peddler’s Village in Full Five-Golden-Rings Holiday Mode to Present a Sixth

    Boyfriend Used Peddler’s Village in Full Five-Golden-Rings Holiday Mode to Present a Sixth

    Mike Stampone used the holiday glam overlay at Peddler’s Village as the setting for his surprise marriage proposal to girlfriend Angelena Minniti. Kristen Schott covered the bended-knee moment for Philadelphia Magazine. Among Stampone’s careers is his role as a wedding DJ; Minniti is a fitness trainer. They met in 2018 when she contacted him to…

  • Bucks County Commissioners Address 2022 Budget, Vaccination Info, and Small Business Stimulus

    Bucks County Commissioners Address 2022 Budget, Vaccination Info, and Small Business Stimulus

    The trio of Bucks County Commissioners — Diane Ellis-Marseglia, Bob Harvie, and Gene DiGirolamo — had a busy pre-holiday docket. Samantha Bambino of the Lower Bucks Times covered their last meeting of 2021 and announced plans for 2022. 2022 Budget The board voted unanimously for a new budget that represented no increase in taxes and…

  • WaPo: When in Vibrant New Hope, Remember That Charming Lambertville Is Just a Quick Stroll Away

    WaPo: When in Vibrant New Hope, Remember That Charming Lambertville Is Just a Quick Stroll Away

    With so much to see and do in New Hope — see a show, dine out, shop — it’s easy to forget that another recommendable site is close by. Cathy Alter profiled the appeal of next-door-neighbor Lambertville, N.J. for The Washington Post. Lambertville offers the opportunity to slow the pace of New Hope’s verve. It…

  • Wharton Equity Partners Purchases Croydon Industrial Building, Expanding Local CRE Book

    Wharton Equity Partners Purchases Croydon Industrial Building, Expanding Local CRE Book

    Wharton Equity Partners, a New York City real estate investment owner-developer-operator, has purchased a 200,000 sq. ft. industrial building in Croydon. Natalie Kostelni reported the $22.5 million transaction for the Philadelphia Business Journal. The site, located at 2955 State Road, belonged to warehousing company Mid-Atlantic Distribution for the past 30 years. It sold the property…

  • After Its Beginnings in Berwyn, Mingle Mocktails Is Now Shaking (and Stirring) National Beverage Markets

    After Its Beginnings in Berwyn, Mingle Mocktails Is Now Shaking (and Stirring) National Beverage Markets

    Berwyn resident Laura Taylor started making mocktails five years ago after she stopped drinking alcohol. Her decision to live as a teetotaler led to the realization that a market exists for healthier nonalcoholic beverages than those available at the time. Lisa Dukart, for The Philadelphia Business Journal, covered how that idea, embodied by her business…

  • Six Bucks County Outdoor Sites Get a Slice of Harrisburg’s $70 Million Revitalization Pie

    Six Bucks County Outdoor Sites Get a Slice of Harrisburg’s $70 Million Revitalization Pie

    Pa. Governor Tom Wolf has announced an investment of $70 million for 317 projects statewide, including support for the revitalization of six Bucks County public sites. The funding is intended to revive communities, create new recreational opportunities, and conserve natural spaces.  “Our outdoor places are among the things that tie us all together — a…

  • Rev. Kathryn Dinkelacker-Swan Seeks to Bolster Church Attendance by Getting Some Skin in the Game

    Rev. Kathryn Dinkelacker-Swan Seeks to Bolster Church Attendance by Getting Some Skin in the Game

    It’s clear that the career of Rev. Kathryn Dinkelacker-Swan has left its mark on her. The full-time pastor at Emmanuel United Methodist Church, Allentown, also frequents area tattoo parlors, getting inked while extolling the virtues of a Godly life. Molly Bilinski filled in the details for The Morning Call. Her neighborhood presence straddles two current…

  • Penn Community Bank Invests in Both New and Existing Team Members

    Penn Community Bank Invests in Both New and Existing Team Members

    Penn Community Bank is kicking off 2022 with an announcement of increased support for existing employees and new team members joining the financial institution. The per-hour base pay rate is now $17 for all positions, effective immediately. The increase is an economic benefit to all new hires and 10 percent of existing team members. In…

  • Bucks County’s First-Generation College Students Dig Deep for Postsecondary Degrees

    Bucks County’s First-Generation College Students Dig Deep for Postsecondary Degrees

    Bucks County institutions of higher learning have a special subset of their student bodies: those whose pursuit of an advanced degree represents an educational threshold none of their forebears have reached before them. Ashley R. Williams covered these unique seekers of a sheepskin for the Bucks County Courier Times. When Justin Briggs left his home…

  • Pipersville Sisters, ‘Super Antsy’ During Quarantine, Start Lawn Sign Business: 2 Yard Ninjas

    Pipersville Sisters, ‘Super Antsy’ During Quarantine, Start Lawn Sign Business: 2 Yard Ninjas

    Pandemic boredom shared by two Pipersville sisters led to their creation of a service business that evolved into much more than a time-filler. Matteo Iadonisi, of 6abc, covered the launch, success, and philanthropic impact of 2 Yard Ninjas. Stuck at home by 2020 pandemic-related summer-camp closure, sisters Grace and Rylee Decker, 12 and 15 years…

  • Lotto Luck: Honey Brook Man Is America’s First Millionaire of the New Year

    Lotto Luck: Honey Brook Man Is America’s First Millionaire of the New Year

    Honey Brook resident Brian Mineweaser rung in 2022 as the “Powerball First Millionaire of the Year” after he became the lucky winner of $1 million, writes Carly O’Neill for FOX 43. He was randomly selected in a drawing among the five finalists and was delivered the good news during ABC’s live broadcast of Dick Clark’s…

  • New Hope Sculptor Mark Pettigrow Merges His Talents into Maine Traffic Roundabout

    New Hope Sculptor Mark Pettigrow Merges His Talents into Maine Traffic Roundabout

    Drivers in Portland, Me., are now the benefactors of New Hope artist Mark Pettigrow, whose soaring sculpture has transformed an everyday traffic circle into an encounter with beauty. SeacoastOnline pounded out the details. The piece, entitled “Passing the Torch,” comprises three soaring flames made of bronze, which soar 8-12 feet into the air. Anchoring them…

  • Wrightstown Family, Lit Up by Light Display Win, Donates Prize to Brighten Spirits of Pediatric Patients

    Wrightstown Family, Lit Up by Light Display Win, Donates Prize to Brighten Spirits of Pediatric Patients

    The annual sparkle of a Bucks County home’s December light display will brighten more than just the neighbors’ eyes, reports Kate Fishman for the Doylestown Patch. The Moskaitis residence at 301 Matthews Lane, Wrightstown, took the top award in the outdoor decorating contest of radio station 94.5 PST, besting hundreds of entries in N.J. and…

  • Midnight Madness May Dawn Again After Purchase by Philadelphia’s New Liberty Distilling

    Midnight Madness May Dawn Again After Purchase by Philadelphia’s New Liberty Distilling

    Philadelphia distiller New Liberty has become the top bidder for the former Midnight Madness spirits producer in Trumbauerville, which declared bankruptcy this past summer. Laura Smythe proofed the details in her Philadelphia Business Journal coverage of the entity’s future. The winning bid for the Chapter 11-shuttered business was $1.4 million, offered at an August 2021…

  • Local Lawmakers Collaborate to Ratchet Up Funding for Technical Trade Education in Bucks County

    Local Lawmakers Collaborate to Ratchet Up Funding for Technical Trade Education in Bucks County

    Technical trade education in Bucks County got a high-octane shot of fuel as county lawmakers secured nearly $100,000 in state funding, according to an item in the Doylestown Observer. State Reps. Perry Warren, John Galloway, and Tina Davis — as well as state Sen. Steve Santarsiero — secured the infusion of capital from through Pennsylvania…

  • Quick Action from a Bucks County Officer Ensures Joyous Christmas for Tullytown Family

    Quick Action from a Bucks County Officer Ensures Joyous Christmas for Tullytown Family

    The quick-thinking action of a Bucks County officer recently saved a newborn, sparing his family a grief-filled holiday season. The 6abc digital staff presented the story. Tullytown Officer Nate Aldsworth responded to a 911 call of an unresponsive newborn on November 24. The plea for help came from the baby’s mother, who discovered to her…