• The Chadds Ford Planning Commission will hear a request for a zoning change by K. Hovnanian Homes during its March 12 meeting. Hovnanian wants to build 114 townhomes along Brandywine Drive on a property currently zoned for a business campus. • The Bride Guide to West Chester, which showcases wedding services by West Chester businesses, is scheduled for Sunday, Feb. 23 beginning 11 a.m.…
On my walk at Longwood I heard a grandmother give notice to a toddler as he tries to pick up crusty snow to throw at people. “Careful, buddy, that’s ice.” Immediately, I flashed back to the story of the 12-year-old fooling around on an overpass several years ago. He hurled a large chunk of ice at a car on the road below him. The tragic…
President Barack Obama said in 2009 that his health care law will ensure that America’s seniors get the benefits they’ve been promised. “Don’t pay attention to those scary stories about how your benefits will be cut,” he said. But the 900,000 Pennsylvania seniors enrolled in Medicare Advantage insurance plans may learn how broken this promise is turning out to be. Medicare Advantage is a public-private insurance…
Team Cyclonz, consisting of seven sixth-graders and one seventh-grader from Charles F. Patton Middle School in the Unionville-Chadds Ford School district won the best Nature’s Fury Challenge Research Award 2013-2014. Team Cyclonz was recognized for, the depth and breadth of their research which included contacting professional meteorologists, disaster relief individuals as well as engineers. Their project focused on developing a cost effective advanced warning system…
The National Merit Scholarship Corporation recently announced that 12 of our 13 Unionville High School National Merit Semifinalists are now finalists. The National Merit Scholarship Program is an academic competition for recognition and scholarships in which students are entered by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test one that serves as an initial screen of approximately 1.5 million entrants each year. Of the 1.5…
The following students from Chadds Ford made the dean's lists at their respective schools. • Dante Gizzi, who studies business and management, and Ian Kerins, studying computer science made the Dean’s List for the fall 2013 semester at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. • Justin Monza, a homeschooled student from Chadds Ford and now a senior electrical engineering major at Grove City College, has been named to…
Geraldine Roberts Barker, 74, of Toughkenamon, died Monday, Feb. 17, at her daughter’s residence, with her family at her side. She was the wife of Ray Gale Barker, who died in 2013, and with whom she shared 55 years of marriage. Born in West Grove, she was the daughter of the late Elijah J. and Ruby Edwards Roberts. She was a kitchen aide at Chatham…
Continuing its tradition of presenting a Delaware or world premiere each season, First State Ballet Theatre brings the Delaware premiere of Cinderella to the main stage of Wilmington’s Grand Opera House. FSBT dancer and choreographer Alex Buckner—a DDOA Emerging Artist Fellowship recipient who choreographed the company’s Delaware premiere of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, its February 2014 world premiere of Irene and whose work was featured…
The Kennett Symphony of Chester County, under the direction of guest conductor, Dr. Robert Spence, will present American Patchwork at its annual Children’s Concerts on Sunday, March 2, 2014, 2 pm, at the International Cultural Center on the campus of Lincoln University AND on Sunday, March 9, 2014, 2 pm, at Emilie K. Asplundh Hall, Phillips Memorial Building, on the campus of West Chester University…
Vico N. Bertogli, I, 92, of Kennett Square, died Wednesday, Feb. 12, at the Jennersville Regional Hospital. He was the husband of Rose DiGuisseppi Bertogli, who diedpassed away in 1987, and with whom he shared 42 years of marriage. Born in Spring Hill, Iowa, he was the son of the late Pasquale and Mary Beradelli Bertogli. Vico was a mushroom grower, retiring in 1980. After…
Joanne M. DiBiase, 72, of Kennett Square, died Tuesday, Feb. 11, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia from a ruptured brain aneurysm and subsequent brainstem bleed. She was born on Dec. 23, 1941 in Lancaster, to Joseph T. Foy, Sr. and Mae Irene Foy (McCleary). Joanne grew up in Coatesville. She graduated from Coatesville High School in 1959, and received her…