Unionville-Chadds Ford School Board directors have two significant votes coming up in their last two meetings before the end of the academic year. On May 20 they’ll be voting on a proposed teachers’ contract and next month it’s the budget for 2013-2014 that comes up for a vote. The board revealed elements of the tentative agreement with teachers during the May 13 work session. It’s…
A rezoning plan that could have led to a controversial development of 325 acres in Concord Township has been withdrawn and a hearing into the matter is closed. Another application is in the works. Cheers and applause erupted from the more than 650 people attending the May 14 hearing, held at Garnet Valley Middle School, when Concord Township solicitor Hugh Donaghue read letters from the…
Inspiration can come like a bolt out of the blue, a flashing epiphany, a crash of thunder or as gently as the soft sound of trickling water. It was that sound of water trickling into a trough that gave Andy Wyeth the inspiration to paint “Spring Fed,” one of his famous paintings of the Kuerner Farm, according to the Brandywine River Museum’s Mary Cronin. For…
Pennsylvania was blessed with an abundance of natural resources which helped fuel the Industrial Revolution. Of the original 13 colonies, only the Keystone State had the critical building blocks — coal, iron ore, timber and petroleum — in abundance, leading the nation in the production of raw materials for 100 years, from 1820 to 1920. Chester County has held an important place in this heritage.…
• The DiMatteo Financial Group held an open house and ribbon cutting at its Pennsbury Township location on May 9. The business had been in Kennett Square for two years and moved into the Ponds Edge location in December. (See featured photo.) • The exhibition Which Way the Wind Blows: Antique American Weathervanes, which includes 28 weathervanes, spotlights a selection of the forms popular in…
Meet Lovely Rita, a sweet and affectionate kitty available for adoption at CCSPCA. This beautiful, young girl is the perfect kitty for a family or for anyone looking for a constant companion. Lovely Rita gets quite lonely when she’s by herself, so she will need to be adopted into a multiple cat home. She currently resides in CCSPCA’s Cat Community Room with many other cats,…
• Police are looking for a man they said stole 54 shirts from the Gap at Glen Eagle Square right around 6 p.m. on May 13. A report said the suspect, described only as a white, Hispanic man, put the shirts in a large plastic bag and left without paying. The shirts are valued at $2,150. • A Chadds Ford insurance company office was burglarized…
Summertime is coming, and the livin’ is easy—or not. But let’s just consider the word “time” for a moment. Many of us seem to languish under time constraints: not enough time for one thing or another; not wanting to “take time” or “waste time.” Writer Marney K. Makridakis decided she would “create” time since she found herself unable to “manage” or “save” it. In her…
