School board eyes tax hike

Unionville-Chadds Ford School Board directors are heading into the final turn in developing a budget for the 2015-2016 academic year. While there’s an eye on reining in expenses, tax rates could still increase. School Superintendent John Sanville and Business Manager Bob Cochran gave the directors a rundown on the proposed final budget during a poorly attended May 4 hearing. The only member of the general…

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Big hats and big purses win the day

Mother Nature welcomed the 37th Annual Point-to-Point on Sunday, May 3, with weather well-suited to the popular event’s panoply of activities. The ever-genial George A. “Frolic” Weymouth of Chadds Ford led the Parade of Carriages, driving a 1904 Brewster & Co. Park Drag. A last-minute entry was another Chadds Ford resident, Jamie Wyeth, whose recent retrospective broke attendance records at the Brandywine River Museum. Many…

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