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The Clubhouse Wellness Center near Valley Forge focuses on fun as it builds friendships, social skills and resilience

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

It’s easier to explain the new Clubhouse Wellness Center by telling you what it’s not.

It’s not drop-in daycare or eldercare, it’s not an indoor playground and it’s not therapy.

What it is: a place for screen-free play – mostly for kids but also for grownups – that inspires connection, sparks creativity and fosters personal growth.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: afterschool activities, afterschool clubs, afterschool play, indoor playground, kids clubhouse, Phoenixville, play place

Handel’s Ice Cream will mark 20 years with a daylong celebration of one of Berwyn’s finest: “Big Dan” McMonigle, who passed in late June

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

Handel’s Ice Cream could easily have made its 20th anniversary celebration all about Handel’s.

After all, Buck Buchanan’s first ice cream venture has been a hit since Day One, a place so enmeshed in the fabric of family life in Berwyn and beyond, it feels like always been there. Heck, even Adam Sandler famously found his way to Handel’s – and not just once.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Berwyn, Buck Buchanan, Dan McGonigle, eadeh enterprises, Handels Ice Cream, ice cream shop, JoAnne McGonigle, Main Line School of Rock, St. Monica's, stacey ballard

And they’re off! Radnor Hotel hits trifecta with dashing new Triple Crown Restaurant, Bar and Garden

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

When Rosalie opened in the Wayne Hotel six months into the pandemic, we raved about its exuberant transformation of staid and stuffy Paramour.

Rosalie felt like a respite from those dour days, a technicolor treat for our deadened senses.

Five years later and a mile down the road, the Main Line’s most prolific restauranteurs have done it again.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: event venues, Main Line event venue, party venues., radnor hotel, triple crown, triple crown events, triple crown restaurant

This and That: Comings & goings up and down the Main Line

June 27, 2025 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

A roundup of early summer restaurant and retail news you need to know!

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Burtons Grill & Bar: vibrant vibe, familiar fare at the old Chili’s in Wayne

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

At long last, there is life – and lots of it – at the long-abandoned Chili’s in Wayne.

With murals of native birds and branches inside and out, generous splashes of lush greenery, and teeming crowds at opening-week festivities, the new Burtons is positively buzzing.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: burtons, burtons grill and bar, chili's, new restaurants, Wayne

Beloved Berwyn Tavern soon to be sold: who’s taking over and what to expect

June 16, 2025 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

The landmark Berwyn Tavern – “the BT” to locals – is changing hands after 33 years.

“We had a great run,” says Henry Fischer, who bought the business back in 1992 as a silent investor.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Berwyn, Berwyn tavern, valley house bar & restaurant ant

After fed-up neighbors file suit, Upper Main Line YMCA pauses pickleball, ‘explores options’

June 5, 2025 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

The outdoor courts are padlocked but the racket over pickleball at the Upper Main Line Y (UMLY) is far from over.

After two years of back-and-forth with UMLY and Easttown officials that cut the hours of play but failed to quell the din to their satisfaction, neighbors decided to play hardball – they sued.  

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Easttown Township, pickleball, Rosenzweig, UMLY, Upper Main Line YMCA

Deck the walls! Murals soon to multiply along Main Line

June 1, 2025 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Your daily drive along Lancaster Ave. is about to get a lot more colorful. 

A new group, Mural Arts Commission (MAC) of the Main Line, is sponsoring the creation of murals on blank walls up and down the Pike.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: casey saccomanno, eadeh, main line murals, mural arts, mural arts of the main line, murals, public art, stacy ballard

Luxury pet-care palace taking shape in Wayne

May 29, 2025 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Here’s a use for an old Rite Aid we didn’t see coming: a Ritz Carlton for dogs.

When it opens around Labor Day, K9 Resorts Pet Hotel and doggie daycare near the Devon Square Acme will span nearly 15,000 sq. feet (inside and out) and accommodate more than 100 dogs.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: doggie daycare, K9 Resorts, kennels, pet hotel, petcare, Rite Aid

After public outcry, Radnor returns banished books; Nova rape protest update; New eats: Settantatré Berwyn, Manorah Bryn Mawr; Wonder ‘food halls’ in Ardmore & KOP; Hot Headlines; This and That & more

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

Gender Queer, Blankets and Fun Home – three graphic novels removed from the Radnor High School library after a parent challenged them as pornographic – are back on the shelves.

After 23 residents pleaded for immediate action at Tuesday night’s board meeting and deliberations stretched past 11 p.m., the vote was taken.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Juan Eguigueron, Manorah, Occupy Vilanova, Radnor book ban, Settantatre, Thai restaurant, villanova rape, Villanova Title IX, Wonder food hall

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