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0 Real Estate 300 Glenn Road has billiards/recreation room, views of nearby valleys and creeks, a ballroom, a balcony, five bedrooms, and much more. Max Bennett , Patch Staff Posted Reply 300 Glenn Road, Ardmore 300 Glenn Road, Ardmore 300 Glenn Road, Ardmore 300 Glenn Road, Ardmore 300 Glenn Road, Ardmore ARDMORE, PA — The former DuPont family estate in Ardmore is up for sale, and you can take over the chemical company's former digs for about $3 million. 300 Glenn Road in Ardmore is listed for $2.95 million on Redfin.com. The home is 5,963 square feet on 1.2 acres. It's got a billiards/recreation room, views of nearby valleys and creeks, a ballroom, a balcony, five bedrooms, four and a half baths, and tons of old Main Line charm. See the listing on Redfin.com below: Iconic stone colonial perched on one of the Main Line's … [Read more...] about Former Ardmore DuPont Family Home Listed For $2.95M

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch and model-actor Jerry Hall are calling it quits, reportedly filing for divorce after six years of marriage. The New York Times first reported the split Wednesday, citing “two people with knowledge of the decision.” The divorce would mark the fourth for Murdoch, the 91-year-old NewsCorp. executive chairman. Representatives for Murdoch did not respond to The Times’ request for comment. Company Town Rupert Murdoch, scrappy Fox mogul who transformed media, begins his Hollywood goodbye Thirty-four years ago, Rupert Murdoch showed up in Hollywood with $250 million, buying a stake in the 20th Century Fox film studio — even though he had little interest in making movies. Murdoch and Hall, 65, married in 2016. The six-year union, which was the Murdoch’s shortest marriage, coincided with major milestones for the tycoon’s decades-long professional career, including Disney’s eventual $71.3-billion acquisition of Murdoch’s 21st … [Read more...] about Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall reportedly splitting after six years of marriage

Fortune 500 companies are rushing a federal agency to extend work permits for thousands of H-1B visa workers as President Donald Trump and his deputies argue over visa curbs that would help Americans regain jobs lost in the coronavirus crash. Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook asked and got “continuing approval” extensions for 611 of its H-1B visa-workers from the staff at the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services agency. Each visa extension allows a foreign H-1B worker to stay another three years. Tim Cook’s Apple got 647 extensions, Bill Gates’ Microsoft snagged 903 extensions, and Jeff Bezos’ Amazon got 1,245 extensions from the agency, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security. Just 62 of these 3,497 requests for foreign workers were denied by USCIS, according to data displayed by the agency’s ‘ H-1B Employer Data Hub .’ The denial rate of just 1.8 percent closed off 3,435 jobs needed by the growing number of unemployed American professionals. The … [Read more...] about Trump’s Deputies Extend Work Permits for 1,000s of Foreign Workers

0 Politics & Government Mayor Lauren Garrett recently announced the appointment. Vincent Salzo , Patch Staff Posted Reply HAMDEN, CT — Eugene Livshits has been appointed as acting town planner, Mayor Lauren Garrett announced. Eugene Livshits has served the South Central Regional Council of Governments for the past nearly 14 years as Regional Planner and Senior Regional Planner. Livshits received his Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Design with a Minor in Architecture from SUNY-University at Buffalo, School of Architecture and Planning in 2006, and went on to receive a Master of Urban Planning with a specialization in Urban Design from SUNY-University at Buffalo, School of Architecture and Planning in 2008, according to a news release. "Mr. Livshits brings a wealth of regional planning experience from his roles at SCRCOG in the areas of land use, housing, hazard mitigation, transportation planning, and grant … [Read more...] about Acting Town Planner Appointed In Hamden

0 Community Corner See the latest announcement from the Davenport Public Library. Press Release Desk , News Partner Posted Reply Press release from the Davenport Public Library: June 17, 2022 Davenport residents have long been passionate about gardening. In June of 1913, nearly 400 people were hard at work preparing their properties for the first of the Rotary Club of Davenport’s “City Beautiful” contests. This dedication to beautification attracted young landscape architect Leonidas Willing Ramsey to Davenport. He and his partner, H. T. Reeves, after investigating twenty U.S. cities, “…decided that opportunities in their line were better here than elsewhere.” The pair opened their practice in the Putnam Building the following year. [The Daily Times, July 6, 1914, page 7] Ramsey had recently graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he studied under the first-ever Professor for Civic Design, the … [Read more...] about Davenport Public Library: Davenporters Of Note: Leonidas W. Ramsey

0 Community Corner Charles Shuler purchased 1125 Rock Island Street in 1899. He is listed as living there from 1900-1906 in the Davenport city directories. Press Release Desk , News Partner Posted Reply Press release from the Davenport Public Library: June 24, 2022 The Quad Cities have a number of structures imbued with an aura of their time, the residence located at 1125 Pershing Avenue was one of those. The setting for this historic home was the late 19th century when the City of Davenport was showing the benefits of industrialization and western migration. The home was nestled in LeClaire’s 8th Addition to the city which is now a part of the Cork Hill Historical District . Constructed between 1888-1890 based on evidence from local city directories, county assessors office, research found in the Architectural/Historical Survey research compiled by Wehner, Nowysz, Pottschull, and Pfiffner of Iowa City. In the … [Read more...] about Davenport Public Library: Lost But Not Forgotten: A Brief History Of 1125 Pershing Avenue