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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 / 4 Comments /

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.

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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

Standing up to hate; Great Valley shocker; Paoli contractor busted; New café & empty nester homes to Tredyffrin & LOTS of retail comings & goings

November 1, 2018 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Hearts were heavy but heads were held high across the Main Line this week.

Hate would have no home here.

From Beth Chaim in Malvern to Beth David in Gladwyne, from the Chabad Center in Devon to Chabad Main Line in Merion, from Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy to the Perelman Jewish Day School, thousands gathered – somber and shattered, yes, but resolute in their response to the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history.

There would be no cowering in corners.

With growing unease, Jewish friends had watched the rising tide of hate on their home turf: the toppled tombstones, the scribbled swastikas, the bomb threats. But a massacre? In their own state? In a neighborhood not so different from Narberth? If hate could kill in Squirrel Hill, it could kill anywhere, right?

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Filed Under: BODY & SOUL, BUZZ, EAT, PLAY, Uncategorized Tagged With: Anita Friday, anne hamilton, Anne Henderson, anti-semitism, Arcadia, Bagel Factory, Barnes, Berthe Morisot, Berwyn, Blue Gene Gala, Chabad, contractor fraud, David Broida, Daylesford Abbey, Element Kitchens, empty nesters, Erin Shine, First Watch, Gateway Shopping Center, Great Valley High School principal, hate crimes, HIAS, Hope Chest, Jason Duckworth, Jeff Kellmer, Kellmer Jewelers, KIngsHaven, Little House Shop, Main & Vine, Main Line Reform Temple, mental health, Michael Flick, michael sheehan, Minding Your Mind, Narberth, Neil Cooper, Nothing Bundt Cakes, Or Zarua, Outback Steakhouse, Penn Medicine Radnor, Pittsburgh shootings, Pottery Corner, Quincy's, rabbi, Savona, Shangrila, synagogue shootings, Teegarden dog park, Teegarden Park, Temple Beth Am Israel, Temple Beth Hillel-Beth El, Todd Stavrakos, Tredyffrin, Tree of Life, Villanova Dines Out, Villanova Restaurant Week, Wayne Glen, Wayne Presbyterian Church, West Chester theater student

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