• StoneMor, a Trevose Funeral Home Operator, Partners with Tel Aviv App Creator to Help Grieving Families

    StoneMor, a Trevose Funeral Home Operator, Partners with Tel Aviv App Creator to Help Grieving Families

    StoneMor, Inc., headquartered in Trevose, has entered a partnership with Empathy, a Tel Aviv tech solution provider. StoneMor is a leading owner-operator of cemeteries and funeral homes in the U.S. Its new collaborator, Empathy, provides an app that helps users navigate the logistical details associated with a loved one’s loss. Through their business arrangement, StoneMor…

  • RKL Shares Six Indicators That You’ve Outgrown Your Accounting System

    RKL Shares Six Indicators That You’ve Outgrown Your Accounting System

    Accounting software often receives little attention when a business or nonprofit is just getting started, as buyers usually choose something basic to meet the limited needs of the new organization, writes Victoria N. Pritchard, a Senior Consultant in RKL’s Business Consulting Services Group. It’s fine for a while if bookkeeping and accounting are little more…

  • RKL — Your Guide to the Expanded Child Tax Credit

    RKL — Your Guide to the Expanded Child Tax Credit

    Did you recently receive a letter from the IRS regarding the Child Tax Credit? The IRS notified more than 36 million families of their potential eligibility for advanced monthly payments of the Child Tax Credit, which was expanded for 2021 as part of the American Rescue Plan Act. The monthly payments will be issued via…

  • Local Couple’s Engagement Photos Send a Clear Message: I Love Hue!

    Local Couple’s Engagement Photos Send a Clear Message: I Love Hue!

    When their photographer suggested a nontraditional setting for their engagement photos, Stepanie Quigley and Dan McElwee agreed. The location, an abandoned rail car in Lambertville, NJ, was for-sure colorful, in more ways than one. Kristen Schott covered the kaleidoscopic camerawork for Philadelphia Magazine.  It was Jenkintown photographer Rebecca Barger who first scouted the spot, a boxy, railroad passenger compartment that looked like…

  • High Temps Require Seniors to Take Care, but in Ways That Go Beyond Shorts, Shade, and Cool Drinks

    High Temps Require Seniors to Take Care, but in Ways That Go Beyond Shorts, Shade, and Cool Drinks

    The Bucks County Agency on Aging warns that summer is not only the season for fresh produce, outdoor fun, and vacations. It’s also the time when scammers prey on senior citizens. Peter Blanchard detailed their seasonal fraudulent activities for the Newtown Patch.  Record-breaking temperatures have Bucks County air conditioners humming.  But they are also bringing out…

  • Trevose M&A Advisory Firm Joins Forces With Pittsburgh Consulting Company For Market Expansion

    Trevose M&A Advisory Firm Joins Forces With Pittsburgh Consulting Company For Market Expansion

    Stony Hill Advisors of Trevose is looking for new market exposure in Pittsburgh. For solid boots-on-the-ground insight, it has partnered with a CEO who is very familiar with the territory. Patty Tascarella reports the collaboration in the Philadelphia Business Journal.  Stony Hill is linking up with SmallDotBig LLC and its CEO, Laurie Barkman, to widen its merger-and-acquisition advisory services. Barkman has headed SmallDotBig for the past decade, providing insight…

  • In the Cold, Distant World of COVID-19, Caregiver Exudes Warmth and Friendship

    In the Cold, Distant World of COVID-19, Caregiver Exudes Warmth and Friendship

    The coronavirus outbreak meant masks, plastic shields, and limited physical contact. But a Doylestown family appreciates the hands-on care their disabled son received as the health crisis raged. His caregiver-friend led with her heart, reports Becca Henderson for 6abc.  When Sue Burkhard visits Christopher Strasburg she enters through the garage of his Doylestown home. As the door trundles up, he can hear that she has arrived. And his giggles of joy start…

  • Bristol Businesswomen Heat up an Industry Traditionally Cool to Female Leadership

    Bristol Businesswomen Heat up an Industry Traditionally Cool to Female Leadership

    Gina Antonelli-King and Christie Farinella stepped into a role that many sons take, inheriting a trade plied by their father. Their success in the heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) industry is notable, given its scarcity of women role models. These standout businesswomen were recently profiled by Penn Community Bank. Tom Antonelli, Inc. began in a basement in Bristol in 1967. Founder Tom rebuilt HVAC systems at a workbench while his…

  • No-Cost Nuptials: Get Married for Free in New Hope this Weekend

    No-Cost Nuptials: Get Married for Free in New Hope this Weekend

    Couples that arrive at River House at Odette’s in New Hope this Sunday — with marriage licenses in hand — can unite in a free civil ceremony, reports Kristen Schott for Philadelphia Magazine.  To partake of the wedding glam without the financial slam, participants must be ready.  A Bucks County wedding license takes approximately five days to obtain and relies…

  • In Challenging Times, Jamison Flower Shop Is Hoping for Valentine’s Day Order Influx

    In Challenging Times, Jamison Flower Shop Is Hoping for Valentine’s Day Order Influx

    Like many flower shops in the region, Mom’s Flower Shoppe in Jamison is hoping to see an influx of Valentine’s Day orders that would help it recover from this challenging year defined by the pandemic, writes Erin McCarthy for The Philadelphia Inquirer. With large weddings out of the picture for most of the last eleven…

  • Local Photographer Part of Nationwide Effort to Create 10,000 Free, Professional Headshots to Help America Get Back to Work

    Local Photographer Part of Nationwide Effort to Create 10,000 Free, Professional Headshots to Help America Get Back to Work

    Nothing says “I’m ready to work” more than a freshly pressed suit, an updated resume, and – of course – a professional headshot. Regardless of profession, COVID-19 sent millions of Americans to the unemployment line without warning. That is why Isolde “Iba” Baylor, a Paoli-based photographer and the proprietor of Images by IBA, is participating…

  • J.P. Mascaro and Sons awarded large TotalRecycle contract

    J.P. Mascaro and Sons awarded large TotalRecycle contract

    J.P. Mascaro & Sons’ modern TotalRecycle facility in Exeter Township, Berks County, already processes and markets a large volume of recyclables from Montgomery, Bucks, Berks and Lehigh County municipalities and, as a result of a new contract awarded to Mascaro, Chester County municipalities can now be added to that list. Chester County recently awarded Mascaro…

  • West Conshohocken ‘vetera-preneurs’ target worker engagement

    West Conshohocken ‘vetera-preneurs’ target worker engagement

    ­Never ask a veteran how many people he or she has killed in the line of duty. Never assume, either, that a veteran suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and is likely to be emotionally unstable in civilian life. Such insensitivity can lead to problems in the workplace. Indeed, forty-two percent of veterans will leave their…

  • Tools4Sports brings fitness, training, education to the athlete

    Tools4Sports brings fitness, training, education to the athlete

    A former standout football player for LaSalle College High School (Springfield, Montgomery County) and the University of Rhode Island is currently putting his sports knowledge and degree in kinesiology to good use.  Joe Migliarese is now teaching young athletes how to get the most from their efforts with his new venture, Tools4Sports. The company focuses on…

  • Sicom Systems moves headquarters to Lansdale

    Sicom Systems moves headquarters to Lansdale

    A restaurant technology company has relocated its headquarters in the suburbs, a result of growing by more than 100 employees in the past year. Sicom Systems Inc., provider of end-to-end solutions for quick-service and fast-casual restaurants, has moved its headquarters to Lansdale, Montgomery County,w rites Kenneth Hilario for Philadelphia Business Journal. [uam_ad id=”54865″] The company has…

  • International Healthcare Outsourcing Specialist Moving Headquarters From Ivyland to Fort Washington

    International Healthcare Outsourcing Specialist Moving Headquarters From Ivyland to Fort Washington

    Ashfield Commercial & Medical Services, an international healthcare outsourcing specialist, is relocating its headquarters from Bucks County to a larger complex in Fort Washington to accommodate its continuing expansion, writes Jacob Adelman for the Philadelphia Inquirer. A unit of UDG Healthcare, Ashfield is moving to the new 80,000-square-foot location following the rapid growth of its…