With teachers in the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District about to start a new year without a new contract, money remains an issue in the district. The teachers’ contract expired at the end of the last academic year and teachers have agreed to work status quo — under the old contract — until a new agreement is reached. School Board President Vic Dupuis said during the…
After a continuation of the spirited exchanges that have marked recent Pocopson Township meetings, the supervisors voted on Monday, Aug. 17, to put the Barnard House question-and-answer session on the calendar – the second such vote in less than a month. Supervisors’ Chairman Barney Leonard and Supervisor Ricki Stumpo agreed that the date for the two-hour session would remain Sept. 21 at the Pocopson Home.…
Weather permitting, the Chester County Health Department will conduct a mosquito-control treatment in portions of the Borough of Kennett Square and Kennett and New Garden Townships on Wednesday, Aug. 17. The treatment will be administered with truck-mounted spray equipment from 8 p.m. to 12 a.m., according to a press release from the Chester County Health Department. The equipment dispenses Permanone RTU, a permethrin insecticide product,…
Richard H. Garver, 74, of Lincoln University, died Saturday, Aug. 15, at the Christiana Hospital. He was the husband of Barbara Ann Heath Garver, who died in January 2015, and with whom he shared 45 years of marriage. Born in West Chester, he was the son of the late Calvin and Catherine Mulvaney. He was a truck driver for 30 years, retiring in 2007, last…
Dorothy E. "Dot" McGuckin, CDR, USN (Ret.), of West Grove, formerly of Beaufort, S.C., died Aug. 14, at the age of 92. Born in Trenton, N.J., she was the daughter of John H. and Harriet H. McGuckin. Dot graduated from Trenton High School in 1941. Upon graduation, she worked for the Bell Telephone Co. She later went on to nursing school and earned her RN…