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Dining Under the Stars in Media: Ten Unforgettable Restaurants to Try on State Street
For five months a year, Wednesday night in Media doesn’t look like a Wednesday night anywhere else. The cars disappear, the tables come out, and State Street becomes one long open-air dining room under the early-evening light. Now in its 19th season, Dining Under the Stars kicked off in early May and runs every Wednesday through September 30, from around 5…
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Freeze Hits Farms, Destroys Most of Linvilla’s Peaches, Apples
A heat wave followed by late-season sub-freezing temperatures has taken out most of Linvilla Orchards’ peaches and apples, writes Denali Sagner for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The Media-area farm said it suffered “tremendous damage.” Linvilla Orchards farm manager Norm Schultz said he’s never seen anything like it. “We had never been so far along on the…
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Sounds of Delco Team Talk About Their Project at Fox 29 Philadelphia
The team at Greatest Hits Records and Books in Media talked with Mike Jerrick at Fox 29 Philadelphia about their “Sounds of Delco Vol. 1” album, available May 15 on vinyl and through streaming. “We get a lot of vintage sound effects records that come in the shop. And we’re really inspired by those,” said…
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Media Is the Nation’s First Fair Trade Town, Has Been for 20 Years
Media Borough has the distinction of being the nation’s first Fair Trade Town, a practice it has observed for 20 years, writes Denali Sagner for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Fair Trade is a global trading system that emphasizes fair wages and safe working conditions for farmers in the developing world, using eco-friendly practices in exchange for…
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Lower Makefield Native Hallie Jackson Assumes New Role as NBC Sunday Nightly News Anchor
Pennsbury High School graduate Hallie Jackson will soon join the NBC Nightly News team as the Sunday anchor, writes Damon C. Williams for the Bucks County Courier Times. Jackson, who grew up in Lower Makefield, has always dreamt of being a newscaster. During her time at Pennsbury, Jackson found herself inspired by 6 ABC.…
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Sorry, Phillies Fans, No Earthquake from Harper/Bryce Homeruns
We’d all like to believe that the Game 3 World Series home runs by Bryce Harper and Alec Bohm Tuesday night was an earth-shattering event, as reported by a Twitter post. Sadly, it just ‘ain’t so. Here’s how @JeanLucPicard84 set up the Twitter post at 10 p.m. Nov. 1: “Harper and Bohm home runs are…
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It’s Time to Loosen Those Belts for the 2022 Main Line Today Restaurant Week, Fall Edition
The fall 2022 restaurant week — organized by Main Line Today and Today Media and sponsored by Firstrust Bank — invites area foodies to unfold menus across the Phila. suburbs during its Aug. 22 to Sept. 4 run. The 33 participating restaurants, all commutable from Bucks County, are: 118 North, Wayne 333 Belrose Bar &…
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Media’s Bill Whitaker Talks About His ’60 Minutes’ Career
Journalist Bill Whitaker, a Media Borough native, worked for years at CBS News before he got the plum position of correspondent on 60 Minutes, writes Stephen Battaglio for the Los Angeles Times. He got the spot in 2014 after covering Asia and working for two decades as a fixture on the CBS Evening News. The…
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Media Borough Takes on Active Role to Protect Native Bees
Welcome to Bee City, USA, known to the locals as Media Borough. The county seat is now an official Bee City, writes Kenny Cooper for WHYY. On June 2, it joined forces with 300 towns, cities and college campuses to protect native bee species through the Bee City USA initiative. The initiative comes from the…
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From Pizza Boxes to Food Scraps, Chris Pieretti Makes Gardens Grow
Chris Pieretti wanted to start a business to help people grow vegetables. With Kitchen Harvest, Inc. he’s doing the next best thing, turning moldy food scraps and pizza boxes into gardening gold, writes Pete Bannan for the Daily Times. Pieretti, a composting expert, has his business on the Linvilla Orchards farm in Media. He turned…
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They Survived Open Heart Surgery as Youngsters; Now, They Empower Adults with Congenital Heart Disease
Retired attorney William Causey was born with “blue baby syndrome” — a condition in which there is not enough oxygen in the blood — and it later caused him to undergo heart surgery in 1949, when he was just a few years old. The first operation of its kind had happened just five years earlier…
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Comedian Wanda Sykes of Media to Co-host Academy Awards This Year
Media resident and comedian Wanda Sykes will be co-hosting the 2022 Academy Awards with Regina Hall and Amy Schumer, writes Max Bennett for patch.com. The Academy announced the three hosts for the March 27 ceremony. The 57-year-old resides in two places—Media Borough and Cherry Grove, New York. The stand-up comedian wrote for The Chris…
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Robots Serve at Media Senior Community Center
Jacquelin DeFilippo was accustomed to great service at Wesley Enhanced Living Main Line (WEL) in Media Borough from the human staff. Now she’s adding a robot to the list, writes Matteo Iadonisi for 6abc. “R2-D2, we named him,” she joked. WEL hired two computerized staff members about a month ago. The “Matradee Robots” by Richtech…
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Wawa Debuts Beverage Vehicle as Thank You to Healthcare Workers in Delco
Riddle Hospital healthcare workers will now have their “Gotta Have a Wawa” urges satisfied more quickly with a Wawa vehicle on site ready to serve up to 500 cups of hot beverages at a time. Wawa and The Wawa Foundation debuted the “Wawa in Your Community” vehicle in Delaware County this week. Wawa’s famed coffee,…
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Mommy Poppins Blog: These Local Drive-Through Holiday Light Displays Are Electrifying
Although strolling by your neighbor’s holiday lawn décor is a nice way to spend an evening, sometimes you need to take in the work of a professional to view a first-class holiday light display. To kick the bulb-and-extension-cord experience up a major notch, get behind the wheel of the car, fill the backseat with neighbors…
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Penn State Brandywine Clinches National Men’s Soccer Title in 3-0 Victory
The Penn State Brandywine Lions men’s soccer team captured the national championship Monday night in Virginia Beach 3-0 against Five Towns College. This is the second time in four years the third-seeded Lions have emerged triumphant in the United States Collegiate Athletic Association Division II Men’s Soccer, according to the Penn State Brandywine website. Brandywine…
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Retirees All Across the Country Are Moving to These Four Towns, and One Is in Delaware County
Delaware County residents may be surprised to know that one of their own towns is right up there with Florida, Las Vegas, and Arizona when it comes to popular places for retiring, according to Brittney Myers at Fool.com. Media Borough was second on a list of four popular places to retire. The others were in…
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Skulls Bring Former Media Woman in Touch With Her True Art
Sue Moerder, who grew up in Media, always knew she was destined to be an artist. Today, the former tattoo artist and advertising designer has fulfilled her destiny, creating skull art, writes Stephanie Farr for The Philadelphia Inquirer. She’s not sure where her first skull came from. “You work in Jersey and everybody hunts and…
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