After 11 years as a daytime café, The Buttery is now whipping up dinner.
Same seasonal, scratch-made fare, largely sourced from local farms and producers.
Same order-at-the-counter service.
It’s BYOB for now but that could soon change.
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/ By Caroline O'Halloran / /

After 11 years as a daytime café, The Buttery is now whipping up dinner.
Same seasonal, scratch-made fare, largely sourced from local farms and producers.
Same order-at-the-counter service.
It’s BYOB for now but that could soon change.
/ By Caroline O'Halloran / /

For 34 years, John McFetridge delivered the mail in Bryn Mawr.
Amiable and outgoing, he knew every dog, made friends on every street. Even Phillies CEO John Middleton would make a point to shake hands at the mailbox.
/ By Caroline O'Halloran / /

The man who signs the checks for the Phillies rarely sits down for extended interviews and audience questions.
But John Middleton, the team’s Managing Partner and CEO, has agreed to step up to the plate this spring on behalf of the lifelong-learning nonprofit, Main Line School Night (MLSN).
Talk about a big catch.
/ By Caroline O'Halloran / /

The ground floor of Wayne Station is leased and loaded with all three retail spaces officially filled.
The most sizzling newcomer will be downtown Wayne’s first boutique steakhouse, name TBD, which is taking 3,000 square feet at the corner of Lancaster and Louella. .
/ By Caroline O'Halloran / /

When doctors told Erik “Big E” Elken that the hip pain he couldn’t shake wasn’t another rugby injury – it was a rare and highly aggressive Stage 4 sarcoma, he waited two days to tell his coach.
The University of South Carolina Gamecocks were playing that weekend and the ever-thoughtful Scholastic All-American didn’t want to be a distraction.
Big E broke the news to Coach Roberts on Sunday: He had an 8-pound tumor – the size of a newborn – on his femur and he was flying home to Berwyn for treatment.
/ By Caroline O'Halloran / /

For two decades, Handel’s Ice Cream has been the western Main Line’s unofficial town square, where neighbors become friends and outdoor lines are braved – even in January.
In 2020, flush with success, Handel’s went mobile, peddling its prized homemade scoops in a retro-cool ice cream truck to community gatherings in Berwyn and beyond.
This year, an even bigger step: an expansion to Delco.
/ By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Cue the Wawa coffee and distinctive accent: Kate Winslet is coming back to Delco.
Filmmaker Brad Ingelsby all but guaranteed a second season of the HBO hit, Mare of Easttown, at a special appearance at World Wide Stereo in Wayne Tuesday night.
/ By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Bryn Mawr’s most distinguished building will soon welcome … students. A local billionaire just bought the longtime headquarters of Bryn Mawr Trust and plans to turn it into a financial literacy center for kids and adults, according to Philadelphia Business Journal.
/ By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Nearly two months after five distraught Radnor High School freshman girls told their parents that AI fakes of their sexualized images were making the rounds, authorities charged a 9th-grade boy with criminal harassment.
Case closed? Hardly.
/ By Caroline O'Halloran / /

The U.S. government plans to put DHS “back office” facility in Westlakes, an upscale office park in Berwyn, according to federal records obtained by the investigative news outlet, WIRED.
Flush with $85 billion in ICE funding from “The Big Beautiful Bill” Act, the U.S. General Services Administration has been quietly leasing office space for DHS teams to support ICE surges team in nearly every state.

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