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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

Remembering Radnor’s Heidi Diskin: a life of caring, cut short by depression. Plus, Paoli’s billboard battle, Target fever, Kindred Collective Bryn Mawr, Ardmore murder news, Retail roundup, Etcetera & more

October 11, 2018 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

On Sept. 7, three days after her sons started the new school year at Radnor Elementary, Heidi Diskin ended her life.

She was 44.

We share this with you because Heidi would want us to.

“One hundred percent, she would want her story told,” said her husband, J.D., in a phone interview. “My hope is that what happened to Heidi can be a teachable moment. As terrible as this situation is, it’s an even worse tragedy if it doesn’t help others.”

To family and close friends, Heidi’s suicide was a sucker punch – a heart-wrenching coda to 20 years of pain.

To those less close, it seemed, well, inexplicable.

Because Heidi had made mental health advocacy and suicide prevention her life’s work. She’d started a brain health foundation, she’d spoken to countless groups, she’d even hosted a cable TV show about mental health. How could Heidi Diskin – of all people – have succumbed herself?

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Filed Under: BUZZ, EAT, PLAY, SHOP, STYLE, Uncategorized Tagged With: Anthropologie, Ardmore murder, Bill Claypool, bipolar, Blue Gene Gala, Blue Octagon, Blue Octagon Too, Brigid Stasen, Bryn Mawr, Campli PHotography, Carla Zambelli, Catalyst Outdoor Advertising, CCC Sale, Center for Social Impact, Christina Carlin-Kraft, Circe, Clockworks, Community Clothes Charity, Dan Maxwell, depression, Devon Target, Devon Yard, digital billboards, DMAX Foundation, Eaves, Eaves Townhouse, Etcetera, Finneran Pavilion, flower walls, Haverford College polling place, Heidi Diskin, J.D. Diskin, Jordan PIncus, Kindred Collective, King of Prussia mall, Krissa Wichsser, Louella Boutique, Madeline Miller, Malvern Prep, Minding Your Mind, model murder, Nicol Floral Design, Nicol Segel, North Italia, Paoli billboard, Parlour, Parlour Ice Cream Ardmore, Pattye Benson, Radnor Fireworks, Radnor suicide, Revivalist Gin, Robin Halpern, Skinny Pizza Paoli, spotted lanternfly, suicide, surrey services, Target, Tredyffrin billboard, Tredyffrin Township, True Food Kitchen, Ventnor movie theater, Villanova, Wayne Target, William claypool

Carol Burnett pops into Paoli; New Tin Lizard in Bryn Mawr & Locust Lane Brewing; Talking teen depression with DMAX; Carson Kressley sighting and much more

April 11, 2017 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

A TV icon touched down in Paoli this week.

Shhhhhh.

Carol Burnett paid a hush-hush visit to overjoyed folks at Daylesford Crossing senior living Monday, charming one and all.

Nope, she didn’t know a soul there.

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Filed Under: BODY & SOUL, BUZZ, EAT, SHOP, SOUL, STYLE Tagged With: Beer, Blue Octagon, brewing, brewpubs, Carol Burnett, Carson Kressley, Conestoga Football, Conestoga High School, Conestoga Lacrosse, Daylesford Crossing, Devon Horse Show, DMAX Foundation, Drew Bergman, drug addiction, fashion, Locust Lane Craft Brewery, Malvern, Minding Your Mind, Paoli, Paoli Blues Fest, retail, Sage Senior Living, salsa, senior living, shopping, St. Norbert Church, style, Tate Kienzle, teen depression, teen drug abuse, teen suicide, Tin Lizard Brewing, Tredyffrin Township, Xolo tacos

Heroin strikes again: RIP Tyler McCloskey (Stoga ’12); Phoenixville’s Colonial Theatre goes BIG time; baby- & dog-napping news

April 4, 2016 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

The Tredyffrin and Conestoga communities are mourning yet another young life tragically lost.

Tyler McCloskey, 22, died of an apparent heroin overdose over the weekend.

Tyler was the younger brother of Reilly McCloskey, the 2010 Stoga grad/photographer who only a few weeks ago shared his own addiction struggles with SAVVY Main Line.

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Filed Under: BODY & SOUL, BUZZ, PLAY Tagged With: Colonial Theatre, dognapping, Heroin overdose, kidnapping, King of Prussia mall, Phoenixville, Polka Dots, Tredyffrin Township, Tyler McCloskey

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