Birmingham Township Supervisors’ Chairman John Conklin said he and the other supervisors didn’t want to raise taxes, but felt the increase was justified to offset a drop in revenue. The 2010 budget raises the property tax from 1.5 mills to 1.6 mills, roughly $.63 per week for average household, according to Supervisor Bill Kirkpatrick. A mill is a tax of $1 for ...
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Family takes cruise for the century
Posted by Rich Schwartzman on December 24th, 2009
Elizabeth Price is a Wilmington native, a Concord Township resident and the oldest member of Brandywine Baptist Church in Chadds Ford, “But,” she said, “I’m the oldest of everything.” Price turned 100 on Dec. 1. Twenty-two members of her family took her on a cruise to celebrate her reaching the century mark. Price’s daughter, Pat Crozier, calls her mother an ...
Chadds Ford woman now a published author
Posted by Rich Schwartzman on December 24th, 2009
When talking with Jeanne-Marie Curtis, one gets the feeling that the Chadds Ford resident and single mother enjoys learning from life’s experiences. She’s taken that enthusiasm for life and parlayed it into a self-published book, “Junctions by Jeanne-Marie, (Every Woman’s Journey) and Journal.” The book includes two short stories and seven poems. There are also ...
Frugality for all
Posted by ChaddsFordLive on December 24th, 2009
If someone wanted to learn how to handle money responsibly, to whom should he or she go? The obvious answer is someone who understands frugality, budgeting and some level of self-control. Maybe that expert messed up earlier in life, but later learned his or her lessons well enough to help others avoid, or grow beyond, mistakes. One type of person who should not be ...
Police log 12/24
Posted by ChaddsFordLive on December 24th, 2009
Pennsylvania state police are looking for two men suspected of stealing $5,000 worth of narcotics that were being delivered to the Concord Pharmacy on Baltimore Pike Wednesday, Dec. 23 at 9:45 a.m. According to a police report, two white males punched a lock on the side panel door of the delivery truck while the driver was inside the store. The suspects took five ...
Blogging Along the Brandywine
Posted by Sally Denk Hoey on December 24th, 2009
As I read Dr. Kayta Gajdos’ Mind Matters column last week, her beautiful words of wisdom drew me back to my family’s Christmas of 2006 and how we accomplished the near miraculous that year–we changed Christmas and rediscovered the Light. This, then, is my Christmas story for you: On Dec. 24, 2005, my 95-year old father entered Bryn Mawr Hospital for the last ...
