Salvatore DiBenedetto, 95, of Toughkenamon, died Thursday, March 12, at the Jennersville Regional Hospital. He was the husband of Jessie DeLaurentis DiBenedetto, with whom he shared 70 years of marriage. Born in Salle, Italy, he was the son of the late Pantelone and Loretta Lattanzio DiBenedetto He was a self employed mushroom grower and owned and operated Magnolia Farms in Toughkenamon, with his family until…
The Unionville-Chadds Ford School Board and the teachers’ union are about three percentage points away from each other in their contract talks. That’s the primary take-away from a March 13 press briefing. School Board Directors Gregg Lindner and Keith Knauss and Superintendent John Sanville conducted the briefing. Director Vic Dupuis is also on the negotiating team, but he was out of town. According to the…
PennDOT has announced the following road projects, which are weather-dependent and could affect residents in the greater Chadds Ford area during the week of March 15 through March 22. The department recommends that motorists allow extra time if they are traveling through one of the construction zones. Spray-patching is scheduled on Route 202 in both directions in Birmingham, Thornbury, Westtown, East Goshen, West Goshen and…
The Hadley Memorial Fund, now in its 52nd season, will present “Pillow Play” a Wilmington Drama League performance on Saturday, March 14, at 2 p.m. at Kennett Friends Meeting, 125 W. Sickle St. in Kennett Square. The Chrysalis Players’ Pillow Plays series brings great theatre to our youngest audience, ages 10 and under. Pillow Plays has become a local phenomenon as these short plays have been taken…
When it comes to meteoric growth, “Jack and the Beanstalk” has nothing on the Patton Project Gardens, even though both share inspiration consistent with a fairy tale. The project took root in 2010 through the wishful musings of Charles F. Patton Middle School teachers Betsy Ballard and Kim Hisler. The pair, who work in the Family and Consumer Science (FCS) Department, combined a what-if mentality…