For those with a taste for cuisine from south of the border, Qdoba Mexican Grill is now open in Glen Eagle Square. Perhaps Qdoba is also for people who are looking to expand the range of their taste buds. The new restaurant — a national chain based in Denver — bills itself as offering “food for people who love food.” “We strive to offer unique…
Rick Hostetler, supervisor of Buildings and Grounds, told school board members that the high school renovation project is ahead of schedule. “Our original project completion date was January 2013. Except for a few punch list items, the renovation is now complete and all the construction trailers and equipment are gone,” Hostetler said during the Oct. 15 school board work session Robert Cochran, director of Business…
• An undisclosed amount of jewelry was stolen from a location on Evergreen Drive in Concord Township. A police report said the unknown suspect removed the jewelry by unknown means and fled in an unknown direction by unknown means. The theft occurred sometime between Sept. 17 and Oct. 7. • There was a residential burglary on Concord Crossing in Concord Township sometime between 8:55 a.m.,…
Cossart Road in Pennsbury Township’s, also known as “Devil’s Road”, will get some extra patrolling by the Pennsylvania State Police during the Halloween season. Township Manager Kathleen Howley asked State Police Cpl. Michael Stoner during the Oct. 17 Board of Supervisors’ meeting to step up patrolling Cossart Road during “mischief season”. Howley told Stoner, who was making his quarterly report to the township, that during…
• Birmingham Township supervisors accepted the resignation of Ed Zaloga from the Historic Commission. Zaloga will not be replaced at this time. The commission had been a nine-member body, but is now down to five members. Supervisors Chairman John Conklin said the Planning Commission and Recreation, Parks and Open Space Committee have been downsized to five members each and are doing well and have…
• Chadds Ford resident Cmdr. William Mock was installed as the commanding officer of Naval Construction Battalion 21 (Seabees) at the Naval Air Engineering Station in Lakehurst, N.J. on Oct. 13. • The Brandywine Battlefield Park is running a Halloween event from 4 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 20. Catch a witch and put her on trial in front of a jury made up…
Sweetie is another long-term resident at CCSPCA who is more than ready for her forever home. Sweetie, like many others, came to the shelter in early spring as a pregnant stray. She was placed into a foster home where she could raise her kittens and become acclimated to a home environment. While in foster, Sweetie was losing some fur and was found to have some…
Autumn colors are beginning to come through the green of summer.
Wondering what topic I might choose to write about this week, I perused several books on my shelf. I could have chosen one of the easier reads, but, no, I elected to choose the most complex of the lot. “The Archeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions,” by Jaak Panksepp and Lucy Biven, is a page turner—all 500 of them—that looks at mammalian neuroscientific…
The first time I visited the Willamette Valley of Oregon was on a business trip about 10 years ago. Some of you might not consider touring wineries and tasting wines all day as “business,” but we were travelling with eight members of our winery staff, trying to broaden their exposure to the whole wide world of wine. At the time, Oregon was the new frontier…
The Chester County Commissioners announced that as of 8 a.m., Tuesday Oct. 16, the Chester County Department of Emergency Services switched fire and emergency medical services voice alert paging to a new system, to meet Federal Communications Commission requirements. The FCC order instructs radio communications devices in certain portions of the Very High Frequency (VHF) band to reduce channel bandwidth from 25 Kilohertz to 12.5…