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‘A true she-ro’: Area mourns loss of Gloria Echols
LANSDALE — A local fixture who dedicated decades to helping Lansdale’s neediest has passed away. Area officials are recalling the impact of Gloria Echols, longtime executive director of borough-based Community Housing Services, after her passing last week at age 79. “We lost a true ‘She-ro’ yesterday. One of...
Cease Fire program helps prevent violence, Montgomery County Commissioners told
NORRISTOWN, Pa. – “Violence is the leading cause of death for children and teens,” is how Marla Davis Bellamy concluded her remarks to the Montgomery County Commissioners at their meeting Thursday morning. Bellamy is executive director of the Cease Fire program, a Philadelphia-based public health violence prevention...
Jabrial Terry Charged In Crash That Killed Nya Stokes: DA
The Montgomery County District Attorney's Office said 27-year-old Jabrial Terry had fentanyl, oxycodone, Benzodiazepines and cannabinoids in his system during the May 4 wreck. Authorities said Stokes, who was nine months pregnant, was the passenger in a Toyota that Terry's Buick struck head-on on Skippack Pike in Whitemarsh. The 24-year-old...
Montco’s Trey Yesavage Is One of the Nation’s Top MLB Draft Prospects
Most kids from Montgomery County don’t receive a $5,000,000 check just before their 21st birthday. But then again, most local kids aren’t pumping 98 mph fastballs and winning NCAA All-American awards. Trey Yesavage was born in Pottstown and spent his childhood growing up on a farm in Boyertown....
Falling tree damages home in Abington, Montgomery County during overnight storms
People were cleaning up across the area on Thursday morning after severe weather swept through overnight.That includes the area outside a house on Wanamaker Road in Abington, Montgomery County.A wind gust sent a tree crashing down, partially damaging a home.Katie Nolan said the tree is a sentimental loss."The tree, that was planted here by my grandmother and my father 63 years ago, original to the house when it was first put here, just came up from the roots and it's no longer there," she said.Nolan said the roof was spared, but that the tree punched a hole in the home by a front window.No one was injured.
Montgomery County’s Emergency Crisis: Who Will Answer the Call?
The Chamber of Commerce for Greater Montgomery County hosted a panel to address the emergency management challenges in Montgomery County. Montgomery County is experiencing a critical decline in volunteer firefighters, with numbers dropping by 70 percent. This decline, coupled with a spike in emergency responses has raised concern in the community and what this crisis means for the future.
Montgomery County Community College Municipal Police Academy Celebrates 24 Graduating Cadets
Twenty-four Cadets graduated from the Montgomery County Community College Municipal Police Academy during the Jun. 12 ceremony. Twenty-four Montgomery County Community College (MCCC) Municipal Police Academy Cadets began their careers as newly minted officers recently, following the Program’s graduation ceremony Jun. 12. Of the graduating class members, 11 Cadets...
‘Housing not citations’ rally focuses on homelessness in Montgomery County
NORRISTOWN — “Housing is a human right. Housing is a human right.”. Chants from attendees of a “housing, not citations” rally Tuesday evening could be heard in downtown Norristown as nearly two dozen people gathered to have their voices heard on the topics of housing and homelessness.
FDA tells Bimbo Bakeries to stop using labels to claim foods may contain allergens when they don't
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says Bimbo Bakeries USA, based in Horsham, Montgomery County, has mislabeled its products, claiming they contain potentially dangerous allergens even when they don’t.
2 From Montgomery County Named to List of Pennsylvania’s Most Influential Millennials
A list of this year's most influential millennials in Pennsylvania includes two with ties to Montgomery County. Two millennials tied to Montgomery County were named to this year’s list of City & State Pennsylvania’s 40 Under 40, writes Hilary Danailova for City & State Pennsylvania. J.J. Abbott is...
Montgomery County woman with cystic fibrosis in need of another double lung transplant
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- A desperate fight for life for a young woman in Montgomery County. She needs a lung transplant but has been rejected by most hospitals.Follow the tubing to 22-year-old Jen Dunlea, who's in the fight for her life, hooked up to tubing for oxygen and nutrition."I am waiting for another double lung transplant," she said.Dunlea has cystic fibrosis, a lung disease, and had her first transplant when she was 13."I just remember just how much pain I was in," she said.Now, nine years later at home in Narberth, a series of complications have caused the transplanted lungs to...
Dave McCormick's ‘pro-family’ agenda touches on IVF, adoption, school choice, social media
SPRINGFIELD, Pa. ― Standing before a sign that read “Strengthening Pennsylvania Families,” Republican U.S. Senate candidate David McCormick announced his campaign’s “pro-family agenda” Wednesday in a visit to Delaware County. He laid out a plan that supports in-vitro fertilization, school vouchers and social media bans for minors. “America cannot be strong if our...
Lawmakers advance proposal to greatly expand Sunday hunting in Pennsylvania
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Hunting on Sundays in Pennsylvania would be greatly expanded under a proposal that passed the state House on Thursday over objections about trespassing provisions and new restrictions on hunting in state parks. Lawmakers voted 129-73 to send the bill to the state Senate. “Sunday is...
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