More than 300 business people from the Brandywine Valley took part in a Brandywine Conference and Visitors Center hosted by Penns Wood Winery Monday night. Seven wineries and five restaurants from the area provided food and drink. And the event was free. Tore Fiore, executive director of the CVB said it was the second such mixer in about five years. He said most of ...
Thornbury Farm has been a Chester County fixture for 300 years, and owner Randell Spackman and his family want to keep it going, combining traditional organic agriculture with the trend of buying locally. The farm is taking part in the community supported agriculture, a nationwide program where local residents buy shares in a local farm’s growing season, or ...
It’s not just preseason time for football teams. It’s that time of year for the marching bands as well and the Unionville High School Marching Band is no exception. The band has been practicing at Chadds Ford Elementary School this week, practicing its music and marching, sweating and sweltering amidst the mid August heat and humidity. All the practice has paid ...
Months ago, conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh said he hoped that President Barack Obama would fail. There was great buzz and hand wringing from the left-liberal segment of the media as if they had never wished failure of Mr. Obama’s predecessor, President George W. Bush. There were, and remain, many ways to view Mr. Limbaugh’s comment. One view is to ...
Pennsylvania State Police report a burglary in Pennsbury Township about 5:50 a.m. on Aug. 15. The report said someone entered a home on Pennsbury Way by forced entry through a window. Jewelry and other items were taken. • State police arrested 21-year-old Gary Yannuzzi, of Chadds Ford after he was seen trying to gain access into vehicles parked near the AMC ...
My sage and existential wine loving friends will tell you that the answer to this question is simply “as long as it’s there”. This might be born out by a recent impromptu tasting I did in New York in the cellar of a major league Bordeaux collector. On the table were 12 bottles of rather old First Growths that had been open for four days. None of the wines had ...
I remember as a child watching historical movies and, as fictionalized as they may have been, it became clear to me that the status quo didn’t change very much and that common beliefs held sway over evidence to the contrary. Remember the time when people thought the sun revolved around the earth? Galileo showed otherwise and was ostracized from his faith for ...
OK boys and girls. Today we are going to learn two foreign phrases which relate to all of us who live in the 19317 zip code and everyone else within shouting distance. Now everyone repeat after me, “Noblesse oblige”. It’s French. In short. If you have been blessed with good fortune, you are obligated to help the less fortunate . Or putting it ...
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