SAVVY MAINLINE

it's what you want to know

  • Home
  • About
    • About Savvy
    • About Caroline
  • Our Events
  • Reel
  • Savvy Team
  • FRIENDS
  • Contact

Hungry to help: The Main Line rises to meet growing food insecurity. One church uses the Eagles to spur donations.

December 21, 2025 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

In this land of milk and honey and horses, many go hungry.

Or would go hungry over these holidays were it not for the Main Line’s myriad pantries, food banks, volunteers and donor businesses and comunity groups.

Read More See More

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Ardmore Food Pantry, Caring Cupboard, ElderNet, food banks, food insecurty, St. Norbert food pantry, Trinity Presbyterian Church, wayne cares, wayne food pantry, Wayne Presbyterian Church

Juggling work, kids and care for older parents? Berwyn-based BOBIcares wants to help.

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

A new kind of matchmaker – pairing families with on-demand caregivers for seniors – just launched on the Main Line.

BOBIcares helps “families and caregivers choose each other directly, almost like a dating app,” explains co-founder Alison Bowers, who lives in Berwyn.

Read More See More

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: alison bowers, bob bowers, BOBIcares, homecare, on-demand senior care, senior care

Philly fave Love & Honey Fried Chicken debuts in Bryn Mawr

December 12, 2025 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

A whole lotta love and a wee bit ‘o honey are the secret sauce fueling Bryn Mawr’s new Love & Honey Fried Chicken.

Locally owned and operated by a Berwyn family, this is Love & Honey’s first Main Line store and second franchise location with many more en route, including one in King of Prussia.

A flotilla of foodies, influencers and regular folk have long deemed the original Love & Honey in Northern Liberties Philly’s finest fried chicken.

Read More See More

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: bill Kirkland, Bryn Mawr, chicken sandwiches, chicken tenders, fried chicken, Love & Honey Fried Chicken, Sharon Purser

New details about reported AI-generated video of Radnor High School students

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

Radnor detectives are investigating reports of a video by an unknown actor that used AI manipulation to exploit a handful of female students.  

“We’re trying to work through the rumor mill vs. reality,” Radnor Police Chief Chris Flanagan tells SAVVY.

Read More See More

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: AI-generated video, Radnor High School, Radnor police

Red (Carpet) Alert! New film focuses on GET Café, Narberth’s uniquely welcoming coffee shop

December 7, 2025 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

In the heart of this holiday season comes a feel-good film about a business brimming with heart.

“Brewing Possibilities” takes you inside GET Café, the Main Line’s most inclusive coffee shop, where neurodiverse and differently-abled adults make artful lattes, work the grill and run the register. These aren’t make-work positions, they’re real jobs.

Read More See More

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: autism, blind filmmaker, Bryn Mawr Film Institute, David Block, documentary short film, Down's syndrome, GET Cafe, inclusive employment, Narberth, red carpet, world premier

Hold your horses! Longtime operator and beneficiary to pull out of Radnor Hunt Races

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

A seismic announcement from Brandywine Conservancy. The operator and sole beneficiary of Radnor Hunt Races for the last 45 years is moving on.

The 95th running of the Radnor Hunt Races on May 16, 2026 will be Brandywine’s last.

Read More See More

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Brandywine Conservancy, Radnor Hunt, Radnor Hunt Races, Radnor Races

Valley Forge Military shrinks again … this time by half. Eastern U. is the buyer

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

Eastern University has inked a deal to buy nearly half of the remaining campus of Valley Forge Military Academy and College, some 33 acres – including its football stadium, track, fieldhouse and pickleball courts as well as multiple apartment buildings that will house Eastern students, according to a statement released today.

Read More See More

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Valley Forge Military Academy, valley forge military college

Main Line Health plants $13.6M flag in Devon

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

In a time when convenience is king, Main Line Health is betting big – royally big.

The health system this week opened a nearly 23,000 sq. ft., $13.6M patient facility a stone’s throw from the Devon Horse Show.

Read More See More

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Main Line Health, Main Line Health Devon

Sizing up Saquon’s secret weapon – the NEUBIE (We tried it!); Wokworks; About Face for VF Military Academy; Sweet longevity deal; This and That & more

November 20, 2025 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Main Line athletes, weekend warriors and post-op patients are all getting a charge out of the NEUBIE, the new-ish electric stimulator that Tredyffrin’s own Saquon Barkley swears by.

Only 14 providers in PA have it and only two are local: Christine Hayes Physical Therapy & Integrative Healing Center in Paoli and at Bryn Mawr Sports Rehab.

Read More See More

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: aether medicine, asare christian, austin hepburn, Bryn Mawr Sports Rehab, charter schools, christine hayes physical therapy, dickvermeil, electric stim, electric stimulation, fly-fishing trip, Hayes physical therapy, Jim Dannaker, kevin rudd, Longevity, Louella, master reset, muscle repair, neubie, neufit, Paoli, peak performance, physical therapy, PNOE test, recovery, saquon barkley, shoe salon, ShoeSpice boutique, surrey services, Valley Forge Military Academy, valley forge military college, Valley Forge Public Service Academy Charter School, VO2 Max, walk to end alzheimer's, Wayne, Wokworks

Main Line teacher/author Jim Zervanos charms with ‘American Gyro’

November 14, 2025 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Ask Bala Cynwyd’s Jim Zervanos if his latest book – a sweet, funny, coming-of-age novel about a Greek American growing up outside Philly – is autobiographical and you receive a resounding … not really.

“The literal story is entirely made up but it’s more personal to me than anything I’ve written.”

Read More See More

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: american gyro, jim zervanos, local author, Main Point Books

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • …
  • 28
  • Next Page »

SIGN UP TO GET SAVVY IN YOUR INBOX. (NEVER MISS A POST!)

Upcoming Events

There are currently no events.

Share/Connect

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter

Hot Headlines

  • In restaurant years, 25 is practically ancient. But fresh off a facelift, Christopher’s in Wayne has never looked better.
  • Golfers – new and seasoned – escape the cold at new, state-of-the-art indoor golf clubs in Paoli and Malvern
  • ‘I’m tired of being the sad story’: Berwyn’s Nadine and Kevin Rudd open up about his early-onset Alzheimer’s kit
  • What $3,000 – $7,300 rent buys you in Suburban Square: Easy living, 21st-century style. The first Coulter Place residents move in this week.
  • Machines think but can they FEEL? A new exhibition in Wayne has answers.

© 2026 · Developed by JX2 Development.

savvymainlineheader

Stay in the know with SAVVY Main Line! Get news, scoops and local buzz PLUS special offers and exclusive invites delivered to your doorstep.

×