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Amid a Budding Pennsylvania Cannabis Industry, Green Thumb Industries Opens Its First In-County Dispensary
A new Warminster business is bolstering Pennsylvania’s cannabis industry. Green Thumb Industries, Inc., cut the ribbon this week on Rise Warminster, its first Bucks County cannabis dispensary. Rise Warminster is the chain’s 16th store in Pennsylvania and its 62nd store nationwide. While most of its Pennsylvania brand presence is west of Hershey, the company operates…
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Business Leaders Look for Infrastructure Package to Get the Kinks Out of the National Supply Chain
Business leaders and local officials nationwide hope that President Joe Biden and Congress can deliver on their major infrastructure package. Commercial entities large and small eagerly await logistical fixes for up and down the supply chain, writes Mike Dorning for Bloomberg Businessweek. The need for such an intervention is best evident at Volvo Construction Equipment.…
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Downingtown-Based Auctioneer Helps Reunite Two-Year-Old Puritan Girl from the 1700s with Her Family
Pook & Pook, a Downingtown-based auction and appraisal service, helped return the gravestone of a Puritan girl to her resting place. The marker’s relocation reunited a family that was devastated by diphtheria in the 1700s, writes Cynthia Beech Lawrence for Antiques and the Arts Weekly. Ron Pook discovered the gravestone of Abigail Chase in an…
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Neumann University Grad Maureen Breslin Lands Internship at the Brussels Bureau of ‘Politico’
Maureen Breslin was faced with a difficult decision in the summer of 2020. The Broomall native had recently graduated from Neumann University with a degree in Communication and Digital Media, and her post-graduation plans included graduate school at the National University of Ireland, Galway. As she prepared to travel abroad, however, the pandemic continued to…
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Charitable Outreaches Resurrect Doylestown Hospital Daycare Center Ravaged by 2020 Tornado
On August 4, 2020, vestiges of Tropical Storm Isaias sparked an EF2 tornado in Doylestown that damaged both the hospital and its childhood education center. Now, a year later, a rebuilding project is moving forward, reports Peter Howard for the Bucks County Courier. No one was hurt when shearing winds ravaged the Children’s Village, tearing…
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Grieving Owner-Operator of Promised Land Organic Farm in Yardley Gets Help with Summer Harvest
A Yardley organic farm family, left short-handed and heavy-hearted by the passing of its matriarch, received some unexpected help with a labor-intensive task. Freda R. Savana, for the Bucks County Herald, covered the volunteers who responded to this grieving clan at Promised Land Organic Farm. Paul Hansen and his wife, Jackie, were the owner-operators of…
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The Meet Group, Inc., of New Hope, Collaborates with San Francisco Tech Firm to Stop Livestream Hate Speech
The Meet Group and Spectrum Labs are expanding their existing R&D partnership to devise a high-tech method of counteracting online toxicity. The bicoastal effort — The Meet Group works out of New Hope, while Spectrum Labs’ HQ is in San Francisco — uses voice moderation technology to quell rhetoric before it becomes livestream hate speech.…
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American Heritage Credit Union, Whose Foundation Brought Music to CHOP’s Pediatrics Unit, Holds Car Show/Concert
In 1996, American Heritage Credit Union became the first credit union in the country to form its own charitable organization when it began the Kids-N-Hope Foundation. After CEO Bruce Foulke visited the Children’s Seashore House of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), he was inspired to help the program. From that commitment grew the Kids-N-Hope…
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Pennsylvania Tourism Office’s New Garden-Themed Road Trip Links Outdoor Fans with Their Best Buds
The Pennsylvania Tourism Office recently unveiled its Best Buds: A Garden Trail road trip. The self-guided sojourn takes travelers through gardens and arboretums in the Keystone State, including several local botanical attractions. Michele Herrmann sniffed through its details for Forbes. “Pennsylvania’s gardens and arboretums are steeped in as much history as they are in beauty,”…
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Historic Organ Donation Enables Langhorne Mother of Two Help Montana Woman Become the Mother of One
Cheryl Cichonski-Urban, of Langhorne, gave a priceless gift — her own uterus — to Chelsea Jovanovich. The historic organ donation was Penn Medicine’s first living-donor uterus transplant. But it also drew two women together in maternally grounded friendship, as Sarah Gantz reported for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Cichonski-Urban saw television coverage of Penn Medicine’s uterine transplant…
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Keeping the ‘Community’ in American Community Journals, BUCKSCO Today Parent Company Hires Julie Kovaleski as Relationship-Building Ambassador
American Community Journals (ACJ), publisher of BUCKSCO Today, continues to expand and deepen its reach throughout the greater Philadelphia Region. To cultivate, build, and maintain high-touch service among its existing relationships and forge new ones, the organization has hired Julie Kovaleski in the new role of community ambassador. Kovaleski, of Collegeville, brings with her the…
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Crown Holdings, Inc., Yardley, Recognized for Mitigating Environmental, Social, and Governmental Risk
Crown Holdings, Inc., of Yardley, achieved a “negligible risk” rating from Sustainalytics, a Netherlands-based corporate sustainability ratings service. The evaluation looks at corporate tactics for mitigating environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks. Crown Holdings supplies protective packaging products made primarily from metal or glass. Its status in Sustainalytics’ negligible risk category is a professional recognition…
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If You Want Your Bucks County Residence to Give Your Spirits a Lift, Try a Property with a Home Elevator
For people with mobility issues, an in-home elevator can be a significant convenience in navigating multiple floors. But even for able-bodied homeowners, an elevator offers numerous advantages: Bucks County’s residential real estate listings routinely carry a number of properties outfitted with this unusual, but helpful, amenity. 3752 Lehnenberg Rd., Riegelsville This arts-and-crafts style home features…
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Hail Marilu! Former ‘Taxi’ Star Marilu Henner’s Live Show Drives Audiences to Bucks County Playhouse
Stage and screen star Marilu Henner debuted her all-new club act, “The Marilu Henner Show,” in front of an enthusiastic audience at Bucks County Playhouse, on Saturday, July 29. The autobiographical show, which includes songs, dances, and stories from her life and career, runs through August 15. Henner’s talents, probably best known from the cast…
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In the Aftermath of Recent Weather Disasters, Penn Community Bank Partners with United Way to Help
Penn Community Bank, the largest mutual bank headquartered in eastern Pennsylvania, partnered with United Way of Bucks County (UWBC) to establish a coordinated disaster relief fund. The two entities are collaborating to help individuals and families affected by the recent severe flooding and tornados in Lower Bucks County. Launched with initial donations of $25,000 from…
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Premium Edition of Uber Expands the Luxury Ride Options in Philadelphia Region
Uber has notified some of its Philadelphia drivers that it’s replacing the luxury ride option UberBlack with UberPremium. The swap provides more drivers with a chance for bigger earnings, writes Thomas Fitzgerald for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Around two percent of area Uber drivers who also transport UberX riders — the brand’s most requested service —…
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Mint-in-Box Nintendo Game System, Rescued from a Goodwill Shelf, Nets Huge Windfall at Auction
One can only imagine the dusty Nintendo game system sitting on a Goodwill shelf, evoking the sad Toy Story 2 castoff fate of Jessie the Cowgirl before her rescue. The mid-1980s unit hadn’t even left its shrink-wrapped box. But when a local worker recognized it for what it was, everything changed. Goodwill Keystone Area related…
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A Notable ‘Garbage’ Pie Turned a Would-Be Broadway Star into a Pizza Master Chef
The influences that redirect a budding career are often unpredictable. Eliyahu Kheel’s transformative moment came from some “garbage” pizzas that almost ruined his wedding day. Jeff Werner for Bucks Local News covered Kheel’s lane-swap from Broadway performer to impresario at Yardley Pizza. “I got into pizza making when I had the worst pizza in my…
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