July 10, 2009 - ChaddsFordLive.com

Birmingham joins West Chester area emergency group

Birmingham Township supervisors voted 3-0 Monday to approve township participation in the West Chester Area Regional Emergency Management Group.

The action is in accordance with Act 93 that amends Title 35 of the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Services Code. Act 93 creates a system of intrastate mutual aid between municipalities in the state and is based on, the resolution said, “…that emergencies transcend the boundaries of a political subdivision and that intergovernmental coordination is essential for the protection of lives and property and for the best use of available public and private assets…”

The West Chester regional group consists of East Bradford, Westtown and other townships, according to Lloyd Roach, Birmingham’s emergency management coordinator.

Other business

Supervisors appointed J. Jay Montieth to the Recreation, Parks and Open Space Committee. Montieth is to serve out the term being vacated by Carol Leeson, a term that expires at the end of 2012.

The board members also appointed the accounting firm of Umbriet, Korengel & Associates to perform the 2009 audit for a f

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New sidewalks in Kennett

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south street sidewalks — New sidewalks in Kennett

A street improvement project five years in the planning in Kennett Square is finally underway.

That project calls for sidewalks to be installed along a 1,200-foot stretch along West South Street from Lafayette Street, west to the borough line.

The sidewalks will be installed on the north side of the street with handicapped accessible ramps installed on the south side of the street, according to Borough Manager Brant Kucera.

Some trees had to be taken down, but they will be put back once the project is completed.

The $180,000 project began two weeks ago and should be finished by the time school resumes, he said. Kucera added that it’s an important project for the well being of borough residents.

“What makes it important,” he said, “is that South Street is a very heavily used pedestrian corridor for residents in that area, both going to school for children and also for the workers at the mushroom plants on the west side just outside the borough.”

Kucera said the project addresses life safety issues and that it’s “a great addition to the borough.”

“It’s our plan to put sidewalks in no matter where it is in the borough because we want to be as pedestrian friendly as possible.”

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The summer slows

Opinion

One of the nice things about moving a newspaper style format to the Internet format to the Internet is that there are a number of advantages.

One is that I’m not stuck in an old paradigm. Those of us here are free to make our own structure, establish something new.

An example of that is the ability to, at times, write an editorial in the first person singular. It’s “I” and “me,” not the editorial “we.”

Columns are written in the first person because the views expressed are those of the individual writer as that writer. “We” editorials speak for the publication. So a ”me” editorial expresses the writer’s view, but the writer as the editor.

So this is me–the editor– talking to you–the reader. And as I do so, I see the faces of those of you I know. That’s part of the on-line community I spoke about in the first editorial.

Another part of the new paradigm is that I can use this space to say that it was a rotten news week. And rotten news weeks are always a risk when the summer slows arrive.

Those summer slows are painful. You deserve more coverage than I was able to muster this week and I’d much rather be working on seven stories per week than be busy trying to find stories.

Yeah, news was slow this week. Just two stories and both were shorties. And one of them was even from Kennett Square. And I apologize that I couldn’t find more news this week.

You can help. One, pick up a phone and call 484-354-6853 not just if you see something newsworthy, but also to let me know about any achievements by people in the community, achievements that they’d like to let others know about.

But the summer slows give me the opportunity to share some other ideas regarding the continued evolution of ChaddsFordLive. Several weeks a go we finally got the police log going and last week we premiered the first Naked Winemaker column written by Eric Miller from the Chaddsford Winery. Over the next few months we expect to add one or two more local columnists. I even have some people in mind–they just don’t know who they are yet.

I’d also like to get some social forums going here. One simple idea is a recipe swap, or maybe something on photography or politics, but any forum readers are interested in can get a shot. What would you like to see? Please, let me know.

I’m pleased with the growth of the site so far. ChaddsFordLive has been up for three months now; readership is growing almost on a daily basis and more businesses are showing interest in advertising. These are all good signs and the goal is to continue to grow by providing news and a forum for a variety of topics.

While news has been slow lately, the summer slows won’t last. School resumes the end of next month and township government activity will pick up, too. And the status of the Brandywine Battlefield Park has not been decided. ChaddsFordLive will be around to let you know what will be happening.

Have a safe remainder of the summer.

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