Meet Caroline. This 1-year-old tan and black beauty has always been a joy to be around. Found as a stray in Chester, Caroline and her sister Madeline became our new residents. But if being a stray isn’t sad enough, her sister was adopted first leaving poor Caroline behind. There was definitely a change in her personality, however with a little time and a lot of love ...
• State police are investigating the theft of an undisclosed number of watches from the Ski Bum in the Shops at Brinton Lake on Dec. 18. The break-in happened at 2:25 a.m. when unknown suspects broke the glass front door and then broke the case where the watches were displayed, a police report said. No other information was released. • Police said one driver received ...
• The second annual Mushroom Drop is scheduled for midnight on Dec. 31 in Kennett Square. A 700-pound, illuminated stainless steel mushroom will drop 80 feet from a crane to usher in 2015. The event is at State and Union streets. Festivities begin 9:30 p.m. and go to 12:30 a.m., Jan. 1. • The Kennett Area Senior Center sponsors a presentation on Alzheimer’s disease ...
Pennsylvania State police are reminding residents to lock their car doors and hide valuables. Troop K, Media barracks, sent out a flyer advising people that a thief can break into a car and take valuables within 30 seconds, but it only takes 20 seconds for people to put those valuables in the trunk. Vehicle break-ins are on the rise, police said, primarily due to the ...
The Eastern District of Pennsylvania collected more than $2 billion in criminal and civil actions during fiscal 2014, said a press release from U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger. The $2,373,688,153 represents part of the $24.7 billion collected in criminal and civil actions by the Department of Justice. That total is nearly eight and a half times the appropriated ...
I write this from Canada after attending “All Is Calm,” performed by the Chor Leoni Men’s Choir. This was a musical version of the 1914 Christmas Truce that occurred in the trenches of WWI. Earlier, the book and movie, "Joyeux Noel" (2005), poignantly depicts the same event where French, British, and German troops spontaneously initiated their own ceasefire by ...
The Pennsylvania State Police have announced that their 2014 Christmas holiday enforcement period will run from Wednesday, Dec. 24 through Sunday, Dec. 28. During this time, additional efforts will be made to ensure motorist safety, with special attention being directed towards aggressive drivers. During the 2013 Christmas holiday weekend, troopers in Troop K ...
Amid the celebration of Tick Tock Early Learning Center’s 50th birthday this past May, a new executive director, Jaclyn Grunther, took the reins. A preschool teacher at the center since August 2013, Grunther has a varied background that prepared her well for the position’s multiple roles. She has a bachelor of arts in social work and a master of arts in elementary ...
The painting, Public Health and Morale (circa 1943) depicts an idealized American family against a backdrop of busy wartime factories, with a squadron of military airplanes over head. It is one of two commissioned by E.R. Squibb and Sons (now Bristol-Myers Squibb). The other painting, The American Mother (1941), was given to the Brandywine River Museum of Art by the ...
During this holiday season many of us will gather with family and friends in warm, safe surroundings to celebrate time-honored traditions and the joy of good fortune. For some Chester County residents, however, holiday celebrations will be confined to a homeless shelter, a car, or a tent in the woods. On any given day in Chester County, close to 700 men, women and ...
Spending bills passed by Congress and signed by the President last week included $3 million in federal funds to advance open space preservation across the Schuylkill Highlands area of southeastern Pennsylvania and elsewhere in the multi-state Highlands Region, said a press release from Natural Lands Trust (NLT), a regional land conservation organization. “The ...
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