Water woes close Life Time KOP; Making Good: F. Rapoport & SamSara, G. Bauer...
Troubled waters at Life Time Athletic in Tredyffrin. The entire facility closed for a few days this week after “a loss of water flow” due to “a construction error,” according to the club’s messages to...
View ArticleDouble Issue: Why a top teacher’s not returning to T/E (with video);...
School’s out for summer. As of this week, it’s out forever … for standout Stoga teacher Deb Ciamacca. For years, the former Marine and beloved U.S. Government teacher has urged her students to get off...
View ArticleDevon Horse Show edition: Survivor Kirstin Day back in the saddle, What’s new...
A struggling Kirstin Rabe Day as a horse-loving teen (left) and healthy at home in Bala Cynwyd today. On June 1, Kirstin Rabe Day will return to the show ring at Devon. It’s been a while. Twenty years,...
View ArticleMighty & Main Line-born, The Motherchic blog launches Nordstrom line (!);...
Blockbuster blogger Schuster and her four boys in Suburban Square. Lindsey Renninger Schuster might just be the most photographed woman on the Main Line. She takes multiple “mirror selfies” each day....
View ArticleWawa murder on our minds; Affordable house calls; Devon’s cutest cottage;...
It’s been two weeks since the brutal murder at the Wayne Wawa and we’re still aghast. We didn’t know Stephanie MIller personally, but her death seems personal. We’re taking it personally. She walked...
View ArticleDevon Anthropologie to swap out deceptive ‘skinny’ mirrors; Plus, Casablanca...
Hey, Mirror, Mirror: Who’s the slimmest of them all? Shoppers trying on clothes at the new Devon Anthropologie. Readers have been telling us for months that Anthro’s dressing-room mirrors make them...
View ArticleThe promise, pathos and too-short life of Brad Perz (Stoga ’13); Comings,...
Four weeks after her 24-year-old son died in her arms, Berwyn nurse Beth Perz stood before a roomful of strangers – reporters, TV cameras and county officials – and broke down. Chester County had just...
View ArticleDevelopment déjà vu in Devon; Look who’s coming to Bryn Mawr, St. David’s &...
The proposed hotel/shops are in pink, the garage in blue, and the apartment building in purple. Remember those ever-evolving plans for Devon Yard? How they once included a hotel, apartment building and...
View ArticleAutism ‘miracle’ in Merion; Bus stop blues & vandalism in T/E; PE pushback in...
When doctors at CHOP diagnosed Matthew Cramer (above) with “classic” Autism Spectrum Disorder, his mother, Julie, a physician herself, had to excuse herself. “I was retching,” the Merion Station...
View ArticleDOUBLE ISSUE: Alarming fire news; ‘Life Time effect’; Go float in KOP; Space...
A fire at Wayne’s Glenhardie condos on Nov. 21. You smell smoke, call 9-1-1, first responders rush on over. But what if – gulp – there aren’t enough first responders? That’s the scary scenario laid out...
View ArticleLivin’ large at Eddie V’s KOP; ‘Social crafting’ at Rustic Brush; tasting new...
The swankest dining destination this side of Center City – Eddie V’s Prime Seafood – just dropped anchor in front of the King of Prussia Mall. Everything at Eddie’s oozes opulence: the white-coated...
View ArticleStanding up to hate; Great Valley shocker; Paoli contractor busted; New café...
A timely lawn sign in Wynnewood. Hearts were heavy but heads were held high across the Main Line this week. Hate would have no home here. From Beth Chaim in Malvern to Beth David in Gladwyne, from the...
View ArticleRemembering Radnor’s Heidi Diskin: a life of caring, cut short by depression....
The late Heidi Diskin with sons Dylan, 7, and Jackson, 9, in 2017. On Sept. 7, three days after her sons started the new school year at Radnor Elementary, Heidi Diskin ended her life. She was 44. We...
View ArticleGeneration Vape: Why Juuling’s not cool; Horse Show’s huge move; Grim find at...
Tredyffrin Police Officer Joe Butler shows a Juul pen to T/E parents at a vaping forum at Conestoga High School. By Lisa Kazanjian Summer’s over and kids are back in school – reading, writing, and,...
View ArticleTransgender in Tredyffrin – C. McMillan’s story; Semi-Super Wawa to Wayne? J....
Stoga grad Cal McMillan and mom Stacy Stone. Don’t bother searching for Cal Stone McMillan in Conestoga’s 2013 yearbook. The only McMillan listed is brainy trumpeter Caroline, and well, she’s long...
View ArticleJulia Rae Schlucter: glamour & grit in the gifted girl next door; Radnor’s...
It would be easy to write about Julia Rae, née Julia Rae Schlucter, as yet another precocious Main Line talent. We’d tell you she was performing in regional theater at age 6. That she was recording...
View ArticleMulti-family housing boomlet in Tredyffrin? Big plans for Swedesford &...
Rendering of proposed Swedesford Plaza apartment building Holy Lazarus! A long-stagnant stretch of Tredyffrin has a pulse. The owner of Swedesford Plaza wants to bulldoze the old HH Gregg and build...
View ArticleBig ‘downtown’ Devon news; Splashy new swim school; More ethnic eats in...
Devon Horse Show 2018 is history – but whoa, Nelly. There’s a move afoot that could change the look of “downtown” Devon almost as much as URBN’s fast-rising Devon Yard. The horse show’s chairman and...
View ArticleT/E probes policy after alleged gun threat & hate speech rattle middle school...
Nora and Sandy Nissenbaum outside their Wayne home. With recent school shootings very much on their minds, some T/E Middle School parents are taking aim at the district’s response to an alleged threat...
View ArticleLucky us! Swell new Stoneleigh public garden in Villanova, The Bercy Ardmore,...
A romantic lych gate at Villanova’s new Stoneleigh public garden evokes traditional English gardens and alfresco weddings. The Main Line has a new treasure. Dusted off, spruced up, and ready for our...
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