Saturday, Sept. 27 is drug take back day, part of the National Drug Take Back Initiative. No matter where your travels take you, area police departments will require only a short detour to locations set up for the semiannual National Drug Take Back Initiative. Sponsored by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the program provides a safe opportunity for disposing of expired, unused, unwanted medication. Law-enforcement officials…
• The Kennett Symphony kicks off a new season with its new conductor Michael Hall this Saturday, Sept. 13 at West Chester University’s Madeleine Wing Adler Theater. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m., but there’s a pre-concert by Hall at 6:30 p.m. Guests can meet Hall during a post-concert reception. Tickets are $40 in advance, $45 at the door. For more information, visit www.kennettsymphony.org or…
What happens when Mom leaves her 9-year-old daughter to play in a park while she works her shift at a nearby restaurant? What about leaving an 11-year-old in a car, or home alone? Does your answer change if the child is four? Parenting is hard. When making decisions for our children, sometimes we make a bad judgment call and sometimes we feel we have no…
“Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic, and natural security threats posed by climate change.” Those words were not spoken by former Vice President Al Gore in “An Inconvenient Truth.” They were spoken by Republican Sen. John McCain. McCain is quoted in The Psychology of Climate Change Communication, written by Debika Shome and Sabine Marx. (See cred.columbia.edu/guide.)…
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks teaches that one of the reasons that Isadore Rabi, a Nobel Prize winning physicist, entered the field of physics is that each day when he returned home from school as a child, instead of asking him what he had learned in class as his friends’ parents did, Professor Rabi’s Jewish mother inquired instead, “Izzy, did you ask a good question today?” Judaism…
On Aug. 27, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration awarded a five-year Level 2 Collective Impact grant to Crozer-Keystone Health System that provides full funding for its Healthy Start program through May 31, 2019. This grant totals $5,536,966 over the next five years, and enables this well-established community program to expand its services as it works with local…
• Birmingham Township supervisors are looking for volunteers to help update the township’s comprehensive plan. The Planning Commission will meet Sept. 18 and 24 to review the plan and begin work on an update. Supervisor Scott Boorse said volunteers are needed to help write the last couple of sections of the update. The goal is to have the update complete by the end of the…
The 49th Chadds Ford Days went off without a hitch, sort of. A late afternoon thunderstorm on Saturday forced an early close for day one, but the sun came back Sunday and all was right for the annual Colonial Fair, one of the major fund-raisers for the Chadds ford Historical Society.
It’s been five years since Michael Harris made an official appearance in Chadds Ford Township. Harris was the education coordinator at the Brandywine Battlefield Park when the state stopped operating the site in August of 2009. Harris was laid off. And while it might not have been a hero’s return, Harris was in town for Chadds Ford Days, selling copies of his new book “Brandywine:…
The Delaware Valley Collage Cooperative is having a Popup show this Thursday at Galer Estate Winery in Kennett Square from 4-8pm. One of the original DVAL artists, Linnie Greenberg, says it was "serendipity that brought a few women together in the winter of 2011" at a collage class on the Main Line. What started as a "pot luck gathering of art minded women"…
The Kennett Symphony of Chester County begins its 2014 – 2015 Season, “Symphonic Celebration”, with Opening Night, under the direction of new Music Director, Michael Hall, featuring violinist and Concertmaster of the KSCC, Eliezer Gutman. The evening includes a pre-concert presentation by Michael Hall about the works on the concert from 6:30-7:00pm, the concert at 7:30pm, and a post-concert reception for audience members to meet…