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The incredible journey of Berwyn’s JP Weber; Why we lost Wayne Sporting Goods; Real estate rumblings in Radnor; Shipley grad’s ‘Wild Life’; Claytor Noone Plastic Surgery; Anti-aging medicine; Personalized test prep & more

January 16, 2020 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

JP Weber clearly remembers the day he died.

“I can’t go back there,” he thought on June 3, 2016. “I’m never going in there again.”

An elite loan originator for PNC Bank, Weber quit his job that late spring morning and walked, blindly, off a cliff. The old JP – people-pleasing, Percocet-popping, life-of-the-party JP – long crumbling, collapsed completely. And ever-so-slowly, canvas by canvas, rose up and pieced himself back together.

Pinstripe-suited Joseph Paul Weber was buried that Friday morning. Ponytailed, self-actualized artist @JohnHamster was born.

What some call a complete mental breakdown, Weber, 43, calls The Undoing.

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Filed Under: BUZZ, Uncategorized Tagged With: 12 Days of Giving, anti-aging, Anti-Aging and Longevity Center, Anti-Aging Medicine, billboards, Brannon Clayor, Cafe LIft, Chester Valley Trail, Claytor Noone plastic surgery, Concordia Group, Craig Conover, Crimson Review, Devereux, Devon Horse Show, Dodo Hamilton, Eastern University, El Limon, elephant sanctuary, Ellevate, ELLIE Main Line, face lift, Gingy's, Haverford Properties, HomeCooked, Integrativ medicine, John Hamster, JP Weber, Julie Zatuchni, Kathy Snow, Keena Roberts, Keena Seyfarth, Kevin Stefanski, Knit Wit, Lindsey Weber, Longevity, Louella, Magnolia Cottage, Main Line retail, neck lift, Outsider Art, painter, Philly Bloke, plastic surgery, Robert Seyfarth, SAT prep, SAVVY Calendar, Seema Bonney, Sewing Down South, Shipley School, Southern Charm, Tango, Tehrani Bros., Test Prep, thailand, Tiki Crawl, Tom Bentley, Valley Forge Military Academy, Wayne Sporting Goods, Wild Life

The Main Line’s most networked woman tells all – and it’s not always pretty. Plus, T/E to seize land for schools; Dust-ups in Devon, Berwyn & Paoli; Blue political coup; Vaughan builders & SAVVY reader-appreciation freebies & deals!

November 15, 2019 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Life looks a lot different after you’re hit, dragged and pinned under a 20,000-pound truck. Just ask Bala Cynwyd’s Jennifer Robinson, who in 2008 nearly lost her life during a sunny stroll on Penn’s campus. In a blink, she went from a newly- wed, rock-star litigator to mangled victim, fully conscious and terrified as EMTs swarmed around her.

Fast forward to 2019 and a reborn Robinson, 46, is finally able to talk about her accident, about the devastating spiral that ensued and how she clawed her way back to daylight.

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Filed Under: BODY & SOUL, BUZZ, Uncategorized Tagged With: Alterra, Barre Focus Fitness, Berwyn Square, Berwyn Stormwater, Berwyn Tree Lighting, business networking, Carlino's Market, Christmas on King, Conestoga High School, Conestoga High School expansion, Devereux, Devon Center District, Devon garage, Devon Horse Show, digital billboard, Doye & McDonnell Nursery, Eagle Village Shops, Easttown Township, elections, Eli Kahn, eminent domain, FemCity, Garrett Hill, home organizers, Jennifer Robinson, Jump Dautrich, Kahn Development, Kate Winslet, King of Prussia Town Center, Mare of Easttown, migrant children's shelter, Narberth Dickens Festival, One Ardmore, Purposeful networking, SAVVY giveaways, senior living, Solera, Swedesford Plaza, T & E Care, Tredyffrin Township Democrats, Tredyffrin Township Planning Commission, Tredyffrin-Easttown School District, Vaughan Building Company, Wayne Christmas, Wayne Grafton, Winterfest, Your Organizing Consultants

Main Line apartment boom: Why so many? 118 North and Amis 2.0; New Cocoon wellness pod & non-surgical neck fix; Devon migrant-shelter update; Plank Studio & more

October 24, 2019 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Townhomes and McMansions are so 20 years ago.

Seems everywhere we turn, there’s an apartment complex just waiting to be built.

From Narberth to Ardmore to Berwyn and beyond, developers are teeing up hefty rental projects. 2,000 new units are in the pipeline in Lower Merion alone.

So many, in fact, they’re beginning to blur: mid-rise buildings with flat-roofs, mixed-material facades, pristine kitchens and baths and smallish living quarters. What you lose in personal square footage, you gain in amenities and walk-to-town/train/trail convenience.

Or so the pitch goes.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: 118 North, Amis, apartment boom, apartments, Ardent Credit Union, Ardmore apartments, Ardmore Music Hall, Arlo, Art Ability, Berwyn Square, Biff Gottehrer, Bozzuot, Brannon Clayor, Carol Spiker, Cocoon Wellness Pod, Cornerstone Tracy, Della Porta, Devereux, Devon Yard, Diane Wulk, Easttown Township, Ellevate, Erik Strik, Eugene Briggs, Expressions, Fashion Xchange, Frazer Lanes, Greg Mueller, Hilary Ryan, infrared sauna, Katie Sampson, Ken Kearns, leah yaw, Lumbrada, Mistral, neck lift, Never Again Action, non-surgical neck lift, Plank Studio, Plaza Azteca, resale shops, retirement, Rob Werner, school start times, Spread Bagelry, Stoker's Dracula, Stoneleigh, Strafford Chiropractic, Swedesford

Battle erupts over migrant kids shelter in Devon; Transportation woes in T/E schools; New Nova hotspot, The Refectory; Di Bruno Bros. to Wayne; RCA Devon update; Elizabeth Reynolds Interiors & much more

October 3, 2019 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

The immigration crisis – complicated and contentious – has reached our Main Line borders.

Devereux wants to turn its original Devon campus into a shelter for unaccompanied refugee children.

And neighbors want none of it.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: almiron, Berwyn Fire Co., Chester County Color 5K, Devereux, Devon, Di Bruno Bros., eating disorders, Everyone Reads T/E, Gables, HomeSense, Juntos, leah yaw, Main Line Fire Prevention Expo, Marlyn Schiff, Mealey's, migrant children, Mt. Zion AME Church, office of refugee resettlement, Old Navy, RCA Devon, Recovery Centers of America, school buses, Stone and Gables, T/E transporatio, The Refectory, Tredyffrin-Easttown School District, undocumented children, Unite for HER, Van Cleve Collection, Villanova

Social edition: Giant Steps for Sarcoma; LM Conservancy, Riverbend & JCHAI galas; Fred’s Footsteps GNO; Devereux does Devon & The Cottage kicks off in Wayne

June 16, 2017 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Braving steamy temps, throngs of sarcoma warriors, survivors, their families and friends – 1,300 strong – walked or raced through Wilson Farm Park in Chesterbrook on June 11.

The teams: Identifiable by their custom tees, at least 30 teams turned out for the 5K chip-timed race and one-mile walk, many led by people battling sarcoma on crutches, wheelchairs and with prosthetic limbs.

Gang green: Some 80 family and friends wore green t-shirts in honor of Pat Maher of Devon, who tragically lost a four-year-battle with sarcoma last June at age 47. Pat led his green-shirted team in the first Steps to Cure Sarcoma event two years ago.

The hometown hero host: Conestoga ’06 star and Ewing’s sarcoma survivor Mark Herzlich, 29, who will play his 7th season for the New York Giants this fall.

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Filed Under: Savvy Social, Uncategorized Tagged With: Chapeaux for Devereux, Devereux, Devon Horse Show, Eagle Village Shops, Fred's Footsteps, Gladwyne, historic preservation, JCHAI, Life's Patina at Willowbrook Farm, Lower Merion, Lower Merion Conservancy, Malvern, open space, Penn Medicine, Radnor, Riverbend, Riverbend Environmental Education, sarcoma, The Cottage, Valley Forge Flowers, Villanova, Wilson Farm Park

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