Delaware County Daily Times, "Widener, Swarthmore honored for commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement"
March 2, 2010
It wasn’t just students in Delaware County who made the honor roll this year. Widener University and Swarthmore College were both recently named to the 2009 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for their commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement. Administered by the Corporation for National and Community Service, the honor roll is the highest federal distinction a university can earn for public service.
Philadelphia Magazine, "Can soccer save Chester?"
March 2010
There's a fridigid wind blowing as Wendell Butler stands at the Chester waterfront, looking out across the Delaware River on a cloudless winter morning. Here, beneath the Commodore Barry Bridge, his city’s past and future overlap like a rusty freighter run aground — or a luxury cruise liner preparing for launch, depending on your perspective. For Butler, Chester’s mayor, this is a champagne-across-the-bow moment. He remembers growing up in the projects, thinking his hometown would always be a blue-collar factory town. Years later, as a Chester cop and then chief of police, he watched his birthplace crumble. The plants closed. People fled. It seemed the only things that went up in Chester were crime and unemployment.
Main Line Today, "Field of Dreams"
February 23, 2010
Pro soccer makes its official debut in Delaware County this month. What can Main Line fans—and everyone else—expect? 1995, Major League Soccer had eight executives, four interested owners, zero teams and nowhere to play. Addressing the last issue, a group that included pro sports team owners Phil Anschutz, Robert Kraft and Lamar Hunt listed five cities on a white board: Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Boston and Philadelphia.
Delaware County Daily Times, "Chester Mayor's State of the City"
February 22, 2010
Mayor Wendell Butler offered his 2010 State of the City Address on Friday, February 2010.
Delaware County Daily Times, "Wavecam focuses on Chester job growth"
February 8, 2010
On the second floor of 771 E. Lancaster Ave. is a business incubator spurred from the success of the Skycam that one owner hopes will lead to manufacturing jobs in Chester. Ablaze Development Corp. joined the Keystone Innovation Zone a year after its 2005 inception to build technology products and to fund the creativity of their own ideas.
Delaware County Daily Times, "State using tax credit to lure new business"
January 31, 2010
For four years, technologically oriented companies have had the opportunity to gain up to $500,000 in sellable tax credits, giving communities an additional marketing tool in luring these businesses to their confines, thanks to a program called the Keystone Innovation Zone. The Keystone Innovation Zone in Delaware County was established May 18, 2006, as a way to encourage innovation and create entrepreneurial opportunities in a specific geographic area, mainly centered around colleges and universities.
Philadelphia Inquier, "Chester's King memorial nears completion"
January 18, 2010
Among the many cities on the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s path to glory - Atlanta, Birmingham, Selma, Montgomery, Memphis - Chester never hosted his great speeches or historic marches. But the fledgling civil-rights leader studied and preached as a young man in Chester six decades ago. Now this reviving industrial city on the Delaware River is preparing to honor him in a monumental way.
Delaware County Daily Times, "Chester students to get college aid"
January 6, 2010
Chester Upland School District students will finally be able to attend Delaware County Community College at the lower sponsored rate if amended legislation introduced by state Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi, R-9, of Chester, is approved. Pileggi proposes to do this for the district — which currently isn’t a sponsoring school district — through the local share of proposed table games revenue for Chester.
Delaware County Daily Times, "Democrats officially take seats on Chester Council"
January 5, 2010
Government officials, family, friends and community members gathered Monday to witness the swearing-in of new Democratic city council members John Linder and Portia West. They became only the second group of Democrats to hold citywide office since 1906. Prior to the official ceremony, which was presided over by Senior Magisterial District Judge Horace Davis, welcoming remarks were presented by Chester Democratic Committee Chairperson Livia Smith, followed by the invocation offered by Pastor Edward Lilly of the White Rock Christian Church.
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