Once you have decided that getting organized is in order, sorting through your belongings will be a key part of the process. Sometimes we can look at the same items over and over and not really know how to make a decision about what to do with them. This list of thirty-seven questions should help you in that decision-making process. Check down the list when…
Say hello to sweet girl Macha. Macha is a spayed female American Staffordshire terrier mix. This girl arrived to the Chester County SPCA as a stray in very bad shape. She was found on the road after being hit by a car. The medical team did all they could to help save her leg but unfortunately the tough decision was made to amputate Macha's left rear leg. Although…
Summer greens, a blue sky and the pavilion at Anson B. Nixon Park in Kennett Square are reflected in a pond at the park.
Controversy and upset surrounding the proposed development of Woodlawn Trustees' property in Concord Township continued last week when the Delaware County Planning Department agreed the current plan could go forward through the township approval process. That recommendation comes with 11 pages of comments from the department, said the planners’ Vice Chairman Thomas Judge. Members of the audience — residents and nonresidents of Concord Township —…
• The Sunoco station at 1700 Route 202 in Chadds Ford Township was held up at knifepoint shortly before midnight on June 18. Police said an unknown suspect entered the station with a large knife, went behind the counter, demanded money and got away with $160 and three packs of Newport cigarettes. Anyone with information is asked to call the state police at 484-840-1000 referencing…
Many years ago, I remember hearing a woman’s story about her husband’s physical and emotional abuse of her. There was something she said in her narrative that sent chills up my spine and a red flag popped up in my brain. Bluntly I told her, “Get out before he kills you.” She took me seriously. That was 1983, but violence against women is yet to…
Philip C. Pusey, 82, of West Grove, died Saturday, June 21, at Neighborhood Hospice in West Chester. He was the husband of Dannette Dougherty Pusey, with whom he shared 45 years of marriage. Born in West Chester, he was the son of the late Jesse D. and Nell Jones Pusey. Phil owned and operated Mushroom Express Co., Chester County Mushroom Sales and Avon Heights Mushrooms.…
Josephine “Joy” (nee Conway) Neary, 75, of Chadds Ford, died Monday, June 16. Born to the late James and Jane (Furnari) Conway in Scranton, she was a resident of Chadds Ford for the past 43 years. Joy was a graduate of West Scranton High School, and received her nursing degree from Scranton State Hospital. After working in New York City as an operating room nurse,…
Chadds Ford Elementary School now has a new principal and the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District has a new budget for the next school year. What it still doesn’t have is a new board member. Shawn Dutkiewicz was hired to replace Mark Ransford as CFES principal. The appointment becomes effective June 27. Dutkiewicz, who’s been the principal of Pennell Elementary in the Penn-Delco School District for…
For years people complained about conditions at the AMC movie theater in the Painters Crossing shopping center in Chadds Ford. The reason for those complaints may be a thing of past. The theatre, closed for weeks because of a major renovation project, is now open and ready for business. It’s no longer a standard movie theatre, but a dine-in theatre. All nine auditoriums are equipped…
Military aviation history buffs had a Fathers’ Day treat waiting for them at the New Garden Flying Field. Sitting on the tarmac, with it’s bright yellow nose and four bladed prop glistening in the bright, mid-June sun, sat a P-51 Mustang, one of the most iconic fighter aircraft of WWII. While the plane on hand was built during the war, it never saw combat. But…