Hillendale unveils mascot statue

“Just our husky statue,” Hillendale PTO President Janette Grieb responded during each PTO meeting when former Hillendale Principal Michael Audevard asked if anything else was needed from Hillendale staff. “I said that about a thousand times,” said Grieb jokingly. On Friday, June 2, Hillendale Elementary School unveiled a new statue to commemorate what it means to be ...

 

Brandywine Art Guide: The Hook Experiment

A large empty space, especially one that has an intriguing history and structure, calls to the creative. Taking advantage of it is a challenge to those brave enough for the attempt. This is where The Hook Experiment takes over, transforming abandoned space into a compelling mixed medium and use gallery this weekend. When visiting the Hook Building, “It was love at ...

Road Report for June 3 through June 9

PennDOT has announced the following weather-dependent road projects that could affect drivers in the greater Chadds Ford area from June 3 through June 9. Motorists are urged to allow extra time traveling through one of the construction zones. Work schedules are subject to change. • Vegetation management will cause daytime lane closures on Route 926 between Pocopson ...

Coffee shop eyes Sept. 1 opening

Chadds Ford Business Association members got updates on two local businesses in the area during the CFBA’s June 1 lunch meeting. And one of those businesses is a coffee shop planned for the site of the former Bryn Mawr Trust Bank. Casey Lafferty, who owns the little strip mall where the bank was and the U.S. Post Office still is, said Steve Sonsini, owner of what ...

Hillendale learning pavilion approved

Hillendale Elementary School got its wish. The Pennsbury Township Zoning Hearing Board approved the school district’s request for a pavilion at Hillendale to be used as an outdoor classroom. The vote was 2-0 in favor. At issue was a request for a covered pavilion that Hillendale Principal Joshua Leight said would be 40 feet by 24 feet that’s open on three sides. The ...

Around Town June 1

• The Chester County History Center is offering a virtual session, From Whence We Came: Finding black ancestors in the historical record on Wednesday, June 14 from 7-8 p.m. African American Genealogy is particularly challenging for numerous reasons, and many believe that their ancestors' stories are entirely lost to time. However, this isn't necessarily the case if ...

Anson Nixon Park anniversary

Anson B. Nixon Park in Kennett Square turns 30 this year. According to John Gaadt, vice-chairman of the Kennett Area Park Authority, Kennett Township and the Borough of Kennett Square got together to start the park after a landfill was closed where the soccer fields are now. “The land was going to be turned over to the township when the landfill was leaving, but the ...

Blogging Along the Brandywine: A sad goodbye

This is not about an inn with history going back almost 200 years. Nor is it about detailed corporate and legal matters about its purchase by Encompass Health Corp, its scheduled closing on June 25, or its eventual demolition. It’s about a family who believed in hard work and in America. Few remember the Great Ionian Earthquake of 1953 that measured 6.8 on the ...

Police Log May 31: Crashes, threats, thefts

Pennsylvania State Police Avondale Barracks • Police said they arrested a 21-year-old man from Wilmington on drug possession charges in East Marlborough Township. The arrest followed a traffic stop for a traffic violation on Route 1 near Orchard Avenue on May 23. Police did not identify the driver in the report, but said he was charged with drug possession and DUI. • ...

The Gables wants a B&B

The owners of The Gables restaurant want to turn the old stone house next to the restaurant into a B&B. But the process might not be cut and dried. Mike Shiring, the attorney representing owner Ann Kolenick and her partner, said turning the old historic house into a bed and breakfast is a perfect idea for adaptive reuse, but added that it’s “a complex zoning and ...

Solemnity and pageantry on Memorial Day

It’s a day that began for the purpose of honoring the war dead from the Civil War and has developed into a day filled with parades and pageantry. But the roots are remembered. The first Memorial Day was in 1868 and was known as Decoration Day to honor those who fell in the war between the states. Yet that first Decoration Day came after several states held their own ...