Two stores catering to excitable palates and empty bellies have opened their doors in Concord Township. Hills Seafood and Great Harvest Bread Co. share a site on the northwest corner of Brinton Lake Road and Route 1. Hills’ opening, scheduled for 1:30 p.m. on July 16, was delayed because the fire marshal hadn’t yet arrived to give final approval. Great Harvest, having opened two weeks…
The Unionville-Chadds Ford School Board met for six minutes in a rare July meeting and approved various district personnel matters including hiring eleven new teachers. Superintendent John Sanville explained the reason for having a meeting in July. “July school board meetings are not a normal happening,” he said. “However, we have been hard at work selecting new teachers to replace eleven teachers who retired effective…
• Pennsylvania State Police are investigating a theft at Mushrooms Café on Route 1 in Pennsbury Township. A police report said $170 was missing from the store’s cash register. The incident happened sometime between July 8 and 10. Anyone with information is asked to call the police at 610-268-2022. • State police said a 56-year-old woman from Kennett Square was taken to Christiana Hospital with…
• Birmingham Township supervisors voted 3-0 to grant an ordinance waiver to Robert and Anne Cobuzzi so they can install a drip irrigation system on property they don’t own. The Cobuzzis live in the Reserve at Chadds Ford development and their system will be on the Homeowners Association’s open space. The board’s vote came after it received a copy of the easement agreement. • In…
• Chester County Commissioners, on July 19, removed a controversial 911 fee from consideration. The plan to raise $2.6 million by having townships assess a $5.20 fee on all residents was introduced in June, but supervisors from all municipalities pushed back. The money was to help offset increasing costs of the 911 system. Birmingham and Pennsbury township supervisors were among those that wrote letters and…
Flash is a basset hound/sheltie mix awaiting his new family at the Chester County SPCA. Flash was surrendered with his two siblings, both of whom have now gone to their forever homes without Flash. Flash has what it takes to be a family pet – he’s laidback and gentle enough for kids of all ages, and gets along with other dogs and cats. If you…
An anhinga stretches its wings while perched on a plastic duck. (Photo by Rich Schwartzman)
Today I am thinking about travelling. Or not. Growing up in the outskirts of Pittsburgh, no one I knew talked much about travelling. It was work. Go to church. Cut the grass. Take care of the kids (and the older generation in those days before assisted living). Maybe we’d take a trip to a state park or nearby lake in the summer, but most vacations…
Have you ever reacted impulsively to something someone said and gotten defensive? Although there are plenty examples in my own life for this, I will instead remark on an event I observed a while ago. In a nursing facility where I consult, I went searching for my next client. If I don't find my clients in their rooms, getting their hair done, or playing Bingo, perhaps they are…
Guns, brothers, and booze mix explosively at premier of “Mr. Hart and Mr. Brown.” People’s Light and Theater Company might have been called People’s Light and Sound Company Wednesday, July 18 when the show opened. A Duesenberg arrives in a small town inNebraska. The era is the 1920s and prohibition. A larger-than-life Mr. Brown appears with picnic basket, a bottle of wine and phonograph record playing…