Test run for police: lights, sirens, popsicles

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Children in the Granite Ridge complex in Kennett Township wait to climb inside a police vehicle. The event was a run-up to the Kennett Square Sixth Annual National Night Out on Tuesday, Aug. 2.

For the uninformed, an Armageddon-style event generated a deafening police response on Friday afternoon at the Granite Ridge apartment complex on McFarlan Road in Kennett Township. Five patrol cars – three from the township and two from the borough –surrounded the playground in the complex, with every flasher ablaze and all sirens blaring. But the only weapons the responding officers wielded were locally-made popsicles from…

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Students uncover rewards of getting the dirt

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Students dig in the center of the UAME Church, part of a partnership between the Chester County Intermediate Unit and The Land Conservancy for Southern Chester County.

The Land Conservancy for Southern Chester County (TLC) is helping area students to dig into the community’s heritage so it can be preserved for future generations. TLC is more than halfway through its summer restoration and archaeological program with the Chester County Intermediate Unit’s (CCIU) Migrant Education Program. Through funding from CCRES and the Sara Bowers Fund, 24 students have been assisting TLC in the…

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