The southwest entrance facade of Woodbridge Mall. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Boscov’s Department Store said Thursday that it will open two new department stores, one in New Jersey and one in Maryland, over the next year and a half.
A planned 180,000-square-foot store in New Jersey’s Woodbridge Center mall, Woodbridge, will open in August 2013, while Maryland’s White Marsh Mall will get a 197,000-square-foot store in November, according to a Boscov’s news release.
The city’s Blighted Property Review Committee on Thursday certified 14 more houses as blighted, despite requests from some owners for more time to fix them.
It also removed six properties from its target list because owners had resolved problems. And it tabled action on three other properties.
Despite the certifications – which allow the city to take the properties, by eminent domain if necessary – the owners are in little jeopardy of the homes being wrested from them any time soon.
The Reading Redevelopment Authority, which would take ownership of the homes, has said it won’t take any property unless the city has an identified use for it – which is rare.
Map of Pennsylvania highlighting Berks County (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Ibrain Marquez-Pacheco knows exactly why he came to Reading: the low cost of living.
“He’s seen that poor people can survive here,” said Luz Mendez, who was translating on Thursday for the 73-year-old man originally from Cuba. “For him, this is like any other city he can go to, but here he can live and survive.”
Marquez-Pacheco was one of several hundred Hispanics who were having their daily lunch at the Daniel Torres Hispanic Center’s senior center at Fifth and Washington streets, where Mendez is a case manager.
Marquez-Pacheco is also one of tens of thousands of Hispanics who came to Berks since the 2000 Census.
Location of Whitpain Township in Montgomery County (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
WHITPAIN — Sarah Munson told the Montgomery County Community College class of 2012 Thursday evening to be proud to say they are graduates of the school, considering the hard work each person put in to finish his or her degree.
“I hope as you walk across that stage tonight and receive your diploma that you have that same pride that I do, for you are not just graduating students, you are workers, veterans, single parents,” Munson said in her student address.
The largest class in history graduated from the community college on Thursday; a total of 1,392 students received 1,417 associate degrees and certificates. This year’s commencement ceremony was the 45th in the college’s history and was held at the central campus in Blue Bell for the first time in two years after renovations on major campus buildings were completed.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Jennifer Lopez’s days on “American Idol” are up in the air, but not necessarily over.
Following reports that she’s exiting the FOX series after two seasons, the star spoke out on Twitter on Thursday night.
“There is no truth to reports that say I am definitely leaving Idol,” she wrote. “All I said was I haven’t decided what I am doing next year.”
Adding, “When I know for sure what I’m doing I will let the #LOVE!RS know!”
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