New Yoga Studio Offers Fitness Option for All

A hometown Tredyffrin lawyer trades briefs for yoga pants and opens Artisan Yoga in Chesterbrook.

Spend a few minutes with Christy Cheever and you'll be at ease about trying Yoga. Spend a few practices and you'll start to feel better about yourself, and your body. Cheever is the owner and an instructor at Artisan Yoga which opened earlier this year in the Chesterbrook Shopping Center. Christy Cheever hasn't always been a Yoga instructor and entrpreneur. She is a hometown women, and a 1992 graduate of Conestoga High School (she went to Valley Forge Middle School before that). After high school, she went to Penn for Science, got a law degree from Villanova and worked locally as a patent attorney for a pharmaceutical company. Along the way she spent 15 years doing modern dance and ballet. Add in a family that includes two kids and you've …

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Paoli Business Owners Sound Off on Traffic

Paoli Business Association owners let planners know exactly what they think is wrong with traffic, parking and roads and what they'd like to see change.

The consultants hired by Tredyffrin Township to study and make recommendations for improving traffic and pedestrian issues heard from the businesses that are affected by the problems every day. Consultants with (and working for) McMahon Transportation Engineers & Planners of Exton met with members of the Paoli Business Association and other interested business owners in and around the Paoli Train Station Wednesday night to ask get their take on what needs to be done to improve traffic in the area. What Business Owners Say They'd Like to See Among the suggestions and concerns the business owners expressed: Tell us in the comments box at the bottom of this article. The Background The $300,000 study is being completely paid for with state …

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7:44 am on Saturday, September 8, 2012

FYI, you can not only paint ceramics, you can make your own pottery from clay right here in Paoli, at The Center on Central. We take checks, but we won't cash them...major credit cards also welcome   more ›

Gallery: Company Donates Bridge Paint Job

A regional business played a big role in the rehab work on Knox Covered Bridge, the iconic symbol of Tredyffrin Township.

Over the past week, Nolan Painting of Havertown, a residential painting business, donated the labor to re-paint a refurbished covered bridge in the Valley Forge National Historic Park in Tredyffrin Township, Chester County. The bridge was closed on August 17 and re-opened late Saturday afternoon with new boards on the sides of the bridge and fresh coats of primer and paint all around. As of Friday afternoon painters at the bridge work site told TE Patch they expected to use around 20 gallons of paint plus about the same number of gallons of primer on the bridge. Knox covered bridge was built in 1865 to cross the Valley Creek in the Tredyffrin Township section of what's now Valley Forge National Historical Park. The last major refurbishing …

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New Paoli Nudy's Set to Open Friday Morning

The surprising thing owner Ray Nudy has been telling everyone about the long-anticipated opening day.

Ray Nudy says he's been telling people "two weeks" whenever they ask when the new Nudy's Cafe in Paoli would open.  He's been saying that all summer, he jokes. Friday morning the wait will be over as the new Nudy's Cafe location opens at 7 a.m. across Lancaster Avenue from the Wawa in Paoli.  This will be the seventh location for the popular Devon-based cafe chain. Nudy was among the crew scrubbing the floors and tables and putting the finishing touches on the breakfast and lunch cafe Thursday afternoon. The new Nudy's will be open weekdays 7 am-4 p.m. and Weekends 7 a.m.- 3p.m. He says there is seating for about fifty at tables and a counter seating area inside the building which was most recently the home of Jake's Frozen Custard which …

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Sour News for Popular Wayne Sweet Shop

The store is closing its doors after this weekend.

It's sour news for fans of a Wayne sweet shop. Gumdrops and Sprinkles, the candy, ice cream and toy store, is leaving its Wayne location. The store is going to be open through this weekend, said Kevin O’Grady, manager. Some fixtures are for sale from the store, including refrigerators, freezers and furniture. The candy and toys that reamin are for sale at a discount. Click here to read more about this story on Radnor Patch.

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What's Next for Devon Waterloo Gardens Site

The owner addresses the rumors that are swirling about the 6.5 acre property.

Waterloo Gardens owner Bobby LeBoutillier says the three biggest rumors circulating about who is buying the now-closed Waterloo Gardens site in Devon are: Terrain, A Ford dealership, or a nursing home. "I hope I find their checks," LeBoutillier said in an interview TE Patch. So far he says there are no offers on the table for the aproximately six-and-a-half acre site which his grandparents opened in Devon 70 years ago in 1942. According to a report on business-bankruptcies.com, Waterloo Gardens filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection in June. The landmark Waterloo Gardens property is prime real Main Line commercial real estate on Lancaster Ave, one block west of the Devon Horse Show grounds. In this economy it reamins to be seen if even…

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It's The End of an Era for a TE Landmark

It's a birthday day the owner didn't want to see happen and an even tougher one for workers and customers.

Bobby LeBoutillier is marking his birthday in a way no one would ever choose. The CEO of Waterloo Gadens is closing the store his grandparents opened 70 years ago in Devon. "We're very sorry we're not going to be there (any longer)," LeBoutillier told TE Patch during a phone interview late Friday. "The community supported us a long, long time." In the end, he explains the economic downturn, which he says started in 2008 for the economy and especially the home building industry, simply caught up with Waterloo Gardens. The result is Waterloo is consolidating its operations to one much larger store in Exton, twelve miles West of the Devon Store. The decision to close the landmark Devon store on Lancaster Avenue was a difficult and personal …

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Plato's Brings Out Closet Bargain Hunters

"I trained months for this," quipped one 13-year-old bargain hunter at Palto's Closet in Paoli.

Plato's Closet in the Paoli Village Shoppes, was swarming with tweens and teens looking for great deals on girls' fashions the moment the doors opened Saturday morning. The girls and young women's designer fashion resale shop held a grab bag sale and it's an all-you-can-stuff-into-a-small-plastic-red-bag-for-ten-bucks shopping extravaganza.  By the time the doors opened Saturday morning, tweens, teens, moms and even a dad or two were standing by, ready to pounce on the bargains. "We trained months for this," joked 13-year-old Jennie who travelled about half an hour with a friend, and her 16-year-old sister to take on the challenge and scoop up the bargains.  "You've got to roll up the clothes to fit as many as you can in the little bag …

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Last Chance for Free Publicity for Your Biz

Summer's a slower time for many businesses in TE. Here's a great chance to help make the register ring!

Whether you own a small business, or just have a place in TE that you love to patronize, Patch is offering FREE publicity but the deadline is Monday. You read that right. Patch is offering virtually every business in Tredyffrin and Easttown a chance to get some great free publicity right here in the middle of summer, when many local businesses could use a shot in the arm. All you have to do is nominate your business or a business you like to patronize for a 2012 Patch Readers' Choice Award.  Click here to see the full list of 25 categories of businesses. Then just pick your category and add the name of your business (of course you can nominate your own business!) in the comments section. If you don't see a category on the list that fits …

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