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Bestselling author Kate Quinn to meet fans at Jane Win in Wayne

April 15, 2025 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Calling all book clubs: the author of The Alice Network, The Rose Code and The Diamond Eye is coming to Main Line.

Historical fiction writer Kate Quinn will appear – in conversation with 6ABC’s Jessica Kartalija – at the Jane Win jewelry showroom in Wayne at 10 a.m. on Thursday, April 24.

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After public outcry, the student who participated in a sexual assault in a Villanova dorm will skip graduation

April 9, 2025 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

A break in Villanova University’s growing PR nightmare.

The man who recorded a student’s sexual assault on his phone won’t be walking at their shared graduation on May 16. He’s staying away.  

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: villanova graduation, villanova rape, villanova sexual assualt, Villanova University

Van Cleve owner sells iconic Paoli fashion business after 39 years. No, she hasn’t retired – far from it.

April 4, 2025 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

The petite powerhouse behind the Main Line’s signature bridal emporium has left the building.

Deborah Van Cleve sold her Paoli business this week – the Van Cleve name included – to her longtime manager, Ashley Grape.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Deborah Van Cleve, Paoli bridal salon, Van Cleve, Window concepts

Tredyffrin greenlights seizure of derelict site in Chesterbrook, advancing plan for a new township park

April 2, 2025 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Looks like Tredyffrin will get its first pocket pickleball park – but don’t be jumping up and down just yet, pickle ballers.

This project’s going to take a while – years, perhaps.

And it won’t come cheap.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Chesterbrook, Chesterbrook Civic Association, eminent domain, Picket Post Swim and Tennis Club, Tredyffrin Township

Today is Transgender Day of Visibility. Amid rising panic, you’ll see little sign of it on the Main Line.

March 31, 2025 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Celebrated with flag raises and solidarity marches around the world, Transgender Day of Visibility on the Main Line will largely pass … invisibly.

“I’d love to say we’ll mark it in some way,” says a Devon mom of a 16-year-old transgender boy. “But the truth is: things don’t feel safe these days. A flag in the yard may put a target on our backs. We will mark it in our hearts.”

She’s not alone.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: gender clinic, gender dysphoria, gender-affirming surgery, Main Line trans parents, trans equity, Transgender, transgender day of visibility, transgender support group

Lush, lively Maison Lotus exudes ‘White Lotus’ glamour in Wayne. A sexy subterranean speakeasy is en route.

March 25, 2025 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Has there ever been a more serendipitous restaurant launch than Maison Lotus?

Just as Season 3 of the hit TV show heats up, Wayne’s newest hotspot debuts with sultry, swanky “White Lotus” vibes.

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Roiled by the removal of ‘unsuitable’ books from Radnor H.S. library, RTSD reviews handling of parent book challenges. Plus, hot headlines and This and That

March 13, 2025 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

A bombshell decision made in secrecy and kept under wraps  – the removal of three graphic novels from Radnor High School’s library – is now – you guessed it – the talk of the town.

Hundreds weighed in on social media after first reading about the book bans in a newspaper article.

Emails were fired off to school board directors and administrators.

Teachers were buzzing after the superintendent informed them en masse a full eight days after an ad hoc committee voted to remove the books.

Superintendent Ken Batchelor’s explanatory letters to parents came a week later. His emails filled in blanks but for some only raised more questions.

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New plan for prime real estate – philanthropist Dodo Hamilton’s property & grounds in Wayne

March 10, 2025 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

When Campbell’s Soup heiress Dorrance “Dodo” Hamilton died in 2017, the fate of her expansive Strafford estate was anyone’s guess.

Would her elegant home, outbuildings, greenhouses and specimen plantings go to her heirs?
Or would they become a nature preserve? A suburban offshoot of the PA Horticultural Society? A small school, perhaps?

One thing was certain: the land – more than eight acres in a prized spot behind Wayne’s Eagle Village Shops – was valuable.

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Uneasy over Barnes & Noble’s surprise return to Bryn Mawr, Main Line bookstore owners unite, plan ‘give back’ week to local causes

March 3, 2025 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

The Main Line’s independent bookstores have surmounted a sea of challenges: Amazon, e-books, the pandemic.

But then, out of nowhere, a tidal wave: Barnes & Noble crashed ashore in Bryn Mawr on Feb. 12,  returning to the very same building it had left 18 years ago.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: barnes & noble, bookstores, Bryn Mawr, Character Development Books & Toys, Children's Book World, independent bookstores, indie main line, main line bookstores, Main Point Books, Narberth Bookshop

A new park in Chesterbrook? Tredyffrin makes moves to seize former swim-and-racquet club by eminent domain

February 24, 2025 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Tredyffrin Township is taking steps towards an historic move: using eminent domain to take land in Chesterbrook. We say “historic” because the last time Tredyffrin seized land was 60 years ago – for a sewer line, according to the township’s solicitor.

This time, Tredyffrin proposes to take over the old Picket Post Swim & Tennis Club on Chase Road, a 4.8-acre eyesore, and turn it into a public park.

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